Half Term Report : Sun May 10, 2015 8:47 pm
So, 12 games in and we are sat 7th with a 6/6 record and a - points differential.Bradford, Sheffield, Leigh, Whitehaven, Dewsbury and now Fev have beaten us and realistically, the top 3 will beat us again (sheffield twice) so of the remaining 7 games, we must win them all to stand a chance of getting 4th spot.
We are light in the front row/pack and need to recruit now (even if it's for next year) as well as tying down a decent half/set of halves to control our game. Sammut might be an option given that Wakey look to be doing a very good impersonation of us last year and we might need to look to either Elite 1 or the NSW/QLND cup for a couple of grunts.
Off the park, the organisation structure seems to be ticking along nicely with regular updates, a smart website and decent comms from the club and the commercial team building nicely with networking events and multiple corporate sponsors willing to be associated with the club.
IF we can tie ourselves to the Hive for a few years (did anything ever come of the long lease negotiations?) and get a settled side, we may well creep up the table and challenge for a place in SL within the next 5 years, but if we are forced to move again, it may well kill us stone dead. 650 average attendance needs to creep up to keep AK interested methinx....
all in all, not where any of us expected to be if you'd asked us in Feb, but better to be on life support than dead.........and at Least Mackay is still looking for a job (according to Linkedin.com)