The business end of the season is here for the Queensland Rugby League's Junior Statewide Competitions with finals footy kicking off in the coming weeks.
When you look at the draw for this weekend - the stand out games really stand out.
In Mal Meninga Cup presented by Ford, the Burleigh Bears are fresh off taking it to the premiers and only losing by six points.
Round 7 will see the Bears and Dolphins against each other in a third-against-fourth battle that will surely appear again in finals.
Burleigh played to their strength against Tweed, holding their own in the forwards to then move the ball to their massive outside backs.
Philip Coates had his best game of the year scoring a double, with one being laid on by his fullback extraordinaire in Saxon Innes and one a result of just good hard running that Tweed centre Sam Stephenson didn’t handle.
Then it was over to Innes to run at his normal 45 degrees to the try line until he decides if he is going to run or pass.
Jett Bryce is going to battle the big Dolphins side and his line-running and quick play-the-balls are going to feature.
If Bryce gets a roll on with his excellent running game the Bears can unleash hell after that moving the ball to points of attack.
Redcliffe will look in the mirror this week and be pretty happy with their reflection.
Nine tries against Wynnum and a shut out 48-nil result doesn’t get much more perfect than that in the Mal Meninga Cup or any rugby league competition.
It rained attack and the Dolphins’ rain gauge was full with 10-line breaks and 42 tackle breaks.
Leading the charge was Brian Pouniu who continues to thrive for the Dolphins with his team-mate Zac Garton attacking on edges that you don’t even know exists until it's too late.
The Dolphins back row scored four tries against Wynnum with Zac Garton getting two and Jack Finigan getting a double then you have Pouniu running for 176 metres.
While half Noah Fein continues to rack up tries and points with nine in five games and 76 points respectively.
Due to the unsafe state of the playing fields and surrounds and the uncertain state of the roads due to the recent wet weather in North Queensland, the deferred matches between Townsville Blackhawks and Northern Pride in the Harvey Norman U17s and U19s, plus the Cyril Connell Cup presented by Ford have been abandoned this weekend.
With unfortunately no opportunity to replay these games this season, the QRL has confirmed the result for all three matches will be a 0-0 draw.
Elsewhere in the Harvey Norman U17s competition, two things stand out between the Souths Logan Magpies and Brisbane Tigers match-up - two traditional rivals going head-to-head and Souths captain Okalani Compton.
The pink headgear of Compton catches your eye, then her defence and then it's her great ball service keeps your attention.
The Keebra Park State High School student is clearly learning inside and outside of the classroom, as her dummy half work is exquisite and a double last round was well deserved.
The 50-8 win was built on the bricks laid by Compton.
The Tigers will have her name written down and be dropping it in defence all week.
TheMagpies line break queen is Mamele Misa with four against the Devils and 166 metres of well-found ground gold.
The Tigers are marching forward from a bye last round so will be fresh and ready to end their season singing.
The start of Round 7 in the Cyril Connell Cup presented by Ford will be deserving of highlighting in the schedule because it involves the Tweed Seagulls.
Tweed are in second place and their defence is magnificent with only 54 points conceded in five games.
The Seagulls build their defence on controlling the ball in where and when they give it to you.
They won the battle of possession in their last outing against the Bears with 59 percent of the ball.
When you make the opposition make nearly 100 more tackles than you things are always going to end well.
Hooker Jai Bilish controls the Tweed defence.
Norths Devils also controlled a lot about their last game against Souths with a 44-4 win.
The Magpies couldn’t get in the game because they weren’t allowed to.
The Devils' sets of six were going five metres more than Souths and when you have 56 percent of the ball that’s a lot of ground won every set.
Just boiling away until the lid blows off the saucepan and the points come.
