Recent from talks
Mackay Cutters
Knowledge base stats:
Talk channels stats:
Members stats:
Mackay Cutters
The Mackay Cutters are a semi-professional rugby league football club based in Mackay, Queensland. They compete in Queensland's top rugby league competition, the Queensland Cup. The club was admitted to the Queensland Cup in 2007, alongside the Northern Pride, and first competed in the 2008 season.
Since 2008, the club has appeared in two finals series, winning the Grand Final in 2013. The team's management headquarters and home ground, Stadium Mackay, currently known as BB Print Stadium due to sponsorship rights, is located in the suburb of South Mackay.
Along with the Pride and Townsville Blackhawks, the Cutters are affiliated with the National Rugby League's North Queensland Cowboys.
Prior to the Cutters entry into the Queensland Cup in 2008, Mackay rugby league's only representation in the statewide competition was the Mackay Sea Eagles, who played in the inaugural season in 1996 before withdrawing from the competition. In September 2007, the Mackay Cutters and Northern Pride were granted provisional entry into the Queensland Cup for the 2008 season. On 7 December 2007, their entry into the competition was confirmed by the Queensland Rugby League.
Former North Queensland Cowboys and Parramatta Eels five-eighth Shane Muspratt was announced as captain-coach for the Cutters' inaugural season. Among the first recruits to the club were former Queensland State of Origin representative John Doyle, Jamie McDonald, Luke Young and Adam Schubert. Doyle would not play a game for the Cutters, retiring due to consistent knee injuries in January 2008.
The Cutters endured a rough two first seasons under Muspratt, finishing 9th in 2008 and last in 2009. The Cutters first ever game was a 16–44 loss to rivals the Northern Pride. Their first ever win came in Round 5, when they defeated the Redcliffe Dolphins 24–22 at Dolphin Oval. The 2009 season started strongly with three straight wins before a run of nine straight losses sunk them to the bottom of the table. They finished with the wooden spoon due to points differential.
In 2010, former Souths Logan Magpies and Queensland Residents coach Paul Bramley joined the club, leading the Cutters to the finals for the first time. They finished sixth, and eliminated the third-placed Sunshine Coast Sea Eagles before being knocked out by the Norths Devils, one game short of the Grand Final.
Bramley left the Cutters at the end of the 2010 season to join the Burleigh Bears and was replaced by Anthony Seibold, who led the South Wales Scorpions to promotion a year earlier. Former Cowboys and New Zealand Warriors halfback Grant Rovelli also joined the club permanently from the Cowboys and was named captain for the 2011 season. Also in 2011, after playing out of local junior rugby league grounds for three seasons, the Cutters moved to the newly built 12,200 seat Stadium Mackay. The first game at the new stadium was a 14–16 loss to the Easts Tigers in Round 20 of the 2011 season.
Hub AI
Mackay Cutters AI simulator
(@Mackay Cutters_simulator)
Mackay Cutters
The Mackay Cutters are a semi-professional rugby league football club based in Mackay, Queensland. They compete in Queensland's top rugby league competition, the Queensland Cup. The club was admitted to the Queensland Cup in 2007, alongside the Northern Pride, and first competed in the 2008 season.
Since 2008, the club has appeared in two finals series, winning the Grand Final in 2013. The team's management headquarters and home ground, Stadium Mackay, currently known as BB Print Stadium due to sponsorship rights, is located in the suburb of South Mackay.
Along with the Pride and Townsville Blackhawks, the Cutters are affiliated with the National Rugby League's North Queensland Cowboys.
Prior to the Cutters entry into the Queensland Cup in 2008, Mackay rugby league's only representation in the statewide competition was the Mackay Sea Eagles, who played in the inaugural season in 1996 before withdrawing from the competition. In September 2007, the Mackay Cutters and Northern Pride were granted provisional entry into the Queensland Cup for the 2008 season. On 7 December 2007, their entry into the competition was confirmed by the Queensland Rugby League.
Former North Queensland Cowboys and Parramatta Eels five-eighth Shane Muspratt was announced as captain-coach for the Cutters' inaugural season. Among the first recruits to the club were former Queensland State of Origin representative John Doyle, Jamie McDonald, Luke Young and Adam Schubert. Doyle would not play a game for the Cutters, retiring due to consistent knee injuries in January 2008.
The Cutters endured a rough two first seasons under Muspratt, finishing 9th in 2008 and last in 2009. The Cutters first ever game was a 16–44 loss to rivals the Northern Pride. Their first ever win came in Round 5, when they defeated the Redcliffe Dolphins 24–22 at Dolphin Oval. The 2009 season started strongly with three straight wins before a run of nine straight losses sunk them to the bottom of the table. They finished with the wooden spoon due to points differential.
In 2010, former Souths Logan Magpies and Queensland Residents coach Paul Bramley joined the club, leading the Cutters to the finals for the first time. They finished sixth, and eliminated the third-placed Sunshine Coast Sea Eagles before being knocked out by the Norths Devils, one game short of the Grand Final.
Bramley left the Cutters at the end of the 2010 season to join the Burleigh Bears and was replaced by Anthony Seibold, who led the South Wales Scorpions to promotion a year earlier. Former Cowboys and New Zealand Warriors halfback Grant Rovelli also joined the club permanently from the Cowboys and was named captain for the 2011 season. Also in 2011, after playing out of local junior rugby league grounds for three seasons, the Cutters moved to the newly built 12,200 seat Stadium Mackay. The first game at the new stadium was a 14–16 loss to the Easts Tigers in Round 20 of the 2011 season.