New Braybrook coach Jason Hamilton declares the WRFL club will be more disciplined in 2018

The Bombers had several players suspended this year, while their final-round senior and reserves matches were abandoned.

The Division 3 outfit won just three matches for the season and has only claimed more than four victories in two of the past seven years.

Braybrook collected a premiership in 2014, but has since won 11 matches.

Hamilton, who has held senior coaching roles in Tasmania and with Northern league club South Morang, conceded the Bombers needed to clean up their image.

“We are definitely going to improve the discipline side of the club — on and off the ground,” the 44-year-old said.

“It’s like everything, there are two sides to every story.

“Braybrook definitely haven’t helped themselves at times in the past, but I think sometimes they do get crucified a little bit.

“But it’s up to us — the committee and the football department — to try and change that. We’re definitely going to go head over heels to fix this problem and we want people to come and watch Braybrook, not to come and watch fights or watch people carry on.

“Hopefully we’re playing good football and winning a few more games than we have been in the past.”

The Bombers have been busy recruiting, with Paul Cutajar-Milosev returning after a season with Division 1 club Albion, during which he kicked 24 goals from 14 games.

Nicholas Gregson has arrived from Tasmanian side Turners Beach after kicking 68 majors this year.

“He’s definitely a quality player,” Hamilton said of Gregson.

“I’ve coached him at (Tasmanian clubs) Cuprona and Spreyton and he’s definitely one bloke that I chased after straight away.”

Nathan Calleja, who has won Braybrook’s past three best and fairest awards, has re-signed, along with Luke Fox, Nathan Smith, Ricky Howell and Brad Busuttil.

Hamilton said the Bombers were still chasing a key defender and midfielder as they seek to rebound from this season’s seventh-placed finish.

“We’re going to put some structure and strategy into the whole club and I think with that sort of planning, the club can turn around pretty quickly,” he said.

“We’re quietly confident we can move up the ladder pretty quickly in 2018.

“There are just some areas of the club that have to improve.”

Braybrook will return to training on Monday, with Hamilton promising a tough pre-season.

“The training will pick up and we will definitely be going in for a pretty hard pre-season,” he said.

“We’ll be trying to get the boys as fit as possible and I think that will deter all the other problems that can come into it after halftime.”