Bermuda will play their first rugby international at home for more than a decade on Saturday, and head coach Lawrence Bird believes his main challenge will be to keep his players focused on beating Bahamas.The two sides clash at North Field in the second round of the Caribbean Championships, and both sides are likely to be unknown quantities to each other.Bird’s side last played Bahamas three years’ ago in the Championships when Bermuda won 29-13 and the head coach said this weekend’s game had been a difficult one to prepare his side for.“The problem with the Caribbean sides is that you don’t get to play them for years,” said Bird. “NACRA (North America Caribbean Rugby Association), the organisers have failed to organise any 15s Championships for over three years now, so we’ve been fortunate that we’ve taken the effort to play some internationals in that time frame.“But we haven’t played Bahamas since we played them in 2008 in the Caribbean Championships and World Cup qualifiers when we beat them, fairly comfortably. But then again, a couple of years before that, they beat us fairly comfortably.“The difficulty is you don’t know what you’re going to get. I know from a coaching course and knowing their guys on the coaching side, they certainly put a lot of work in to developing rugby. We’re expecting a tough test on Saturday, they’ll be coming in full guns blazing, they’ve always been very tough, physical, and of course they’ll have a bit of speed no doubt.“I think our main challenge is to make sure everybody is fully motivated because a home fixture can lead to complacency, and that’s what we’re working to overcome right now. We need to come out of the blocks pretty quickly.”Playing a Test match at home will be a new experience for a Bermuda team that has spent the past decade travelling around the Caribbean and South America. The World Rugby Classic has largely provided their only experiences of playing at North Field.“It’s one of those really difficult ones to prepare for, where you don’t know your opposition, and you’ve got this home fixture which we’re just not used to,” said Bird. “It’s the first rugby international for . . . I don’t know how long it’s been, but I’ve been here eight years and there hasn’t been one in that time.“We’ve always had to travel to play, so it’s going to be a new experience, and this is why I’ve –always been keen to try and get at least some opposition for the Classic, because it gives us a taste of a home crowd, and the challenges that go with that.“It shouldn’t sound like a challenge, but it is, because there is a lot of expectation. We know how we want to play, I don’t want players to get influenced by the crowd, and get too swept up in the excitement. They need to just keep under control and play the sort of game that we need to beat them.”There is certainly enough experience in a Bermuda squad that includes the likes of Bobby Hurdle, Tom Healy and skipper Peter Dunkerley. Alongside them are the talents of players such as BRFU Player of the Year Gareth Williams.Missing, however, are Lachlon Armour, Jack Ellison, Andrew Hook and Soniko Thomas, all of whom have niggling injuries that Bird wasn’t willing to take a chance on.“We’ve got a game plan we think will work, we’ll stick to it, and even if they get a couple of early scores, hopefully we’ll come through,” said Bird. “Our preparation’s gone pretty well, we probably would have liked a little more time, but we had the domestic season to finish off. But that helped us because it was very competitive with all four clubs. From a training point of view we’re bang on schedule, and looking forward to Saturday’s game.”Bermuda: Paul Dobinson, Nick Chilvers, Allan Steynor, Devrae Noel-Simmons, Thomas Greenslade, David Rourke, Bobby Hurdle, Peter Dunkerley, Scott Brown, Conor McGlynn, Kris Furbert, Darren Richardson, Gareth Williams, Tom Healy, Tom Edwards, Greg Fraser, Mark Dymond, Andy Boyce, Neville Zuill, Shauntino Simons, John Jackson, Alun Thomas.