Abrams, now in his second year at the helm, has been confirmed for the 2017 Central Highlands Football League season.

The non-playing coach has steadily lifted the Towners' senior team during his two years in the role. Dunnstown won just two matches in the campaign before Abrams arrived at the club, but he helped take the side to five victories in 2015.

This season has been by far his best, with the Towners already having claimed seven wins to still be in the hunt for a spot in finals.

Dunnstown president Joel Murphy said Abrams was a committed and very detailed coach, who held a passion for the club, where his father Allan played.

Murphy said it was always planned to be a steady build under Abrams.

“That was always the plan, not to try and win the flag in one year, just a slow build. We improved last year and we probably need to win the next three (to play finals in 2017), but we've improved again this year,” Murphy told The Courier.

Murphy said Abrams had a good rapport with most of the Dunnstown players and that the club was now in the process of securing its list for season 2017.

Abrams arrived at Dunnstown to replace Mick Taylor and brought with him a wealth of coaching experience.

Among his roles was serving as an assistant to Gerard FitzGerald at the North Ballarat Roosters.

He has also held head coaching jobs with the Roosters’ development team and Newlyn senior side (while playing) and other assistant positions, including those with the North Ballarat Rebels and Geelong Football League club St Albans.

Abrams steered Dunnstown to an important victory against Ballan on Saturday and has upcoming games against Clunes, Learmonth and Daylesford before the end of the home and away rounds.

The senior team is 10^th on the ladder, just four points behind the eighth-placed Blues.

If successful in reaching the finals this year, it will be the Towners’ first appearance since 2011 when under the care of coach Paul Jennings.

On this occasion, the team was beaten in an elimination encounter by Gordon.