Play with your mates is aim of coach
COACH'S CORNER: David Hallman is in his first season of senior coaching and will face the toughest assignment of his career in Sunday's second division knockout finals game against Valleys at Clive Berghofer Stadium.
Hallman first coached juniors at Hervey Bay Seagulls and for the past four years with Collegians juniors in Warwick. So far, he has coached junior teams including his son Mark.
He is captain-coach of the Cowboys second-division team which made the mid-season President's Cup final in the TRL this season.
Hallman has the record for most Cowboys game after reaching his 300th this season.
He talks about his methods to coach a second-division team:
We have a good group of players and the greatest incentive for us is to play with our mates.
The team has eight to 10 players at training at our one session for the week on a Tuesday night. All players can't train as we have two who travel from Brisbane and three or four who work away.
With unlimited interchange, we work more on ballwork at training than fitness.
Second-division games are only 30 minutes a half.
Warwick has finished third in the competition behind Gatton and Pittsworth and we will play a Valleys team on Sunday which we have already beaten twice this season.
