The Tigers beat the three-time reigning premiers for the first time in their history last season, conceding just six goals in what would be the Northern Bombers' final loss of 2019.

"That's definitely in the rear vision mirror now, that's in the past," Baumeler said.

"They're a very formidable line-up and I think they're working their way nicely into the season.

With [Mark] Walsh, [Tom] Bennett and [Zach] Burt coming back into their system they'll integrate themselves as the season goes and I think they'll get stronger and stronger.

"It's a really good challenge for us to come up to UTAS on the back of a win to play a very good team."

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Kingborough's opening win of 2020 came at a cost, with gun midfielder Lachlan Clifford to miss at least six weeks after breaking his collarbone in the first quarter.

Nevertheless, Baumeler believes the 15-point victory over Clarence will do wonders for his side's confidence moving forward.

"It was really good to get on the board - we'd been close in two out of our three games," he said.

"We lost by one point and 10 points so it was pleasing to start really well against Clarence and we took a lot of confidence out of that.

"Hopefully we can really kick-start our season now because the ladder is really close at the moment - even though we've only won one game we're only one win off third spot so there's plenty of positives."