The Mackay Cutters RLFC are a semi-professional rugby league

Rugby league

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 football club

Club

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 founded in 2007 based in Mackay

Mackay, Queensland

Mackay is a city on the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia, about north of Brisbane, on the Pioneer River. Mackay is nicknamed the sugar capital of Australia because its region produces more than a third of Australia's cane sugar....

, Queensland

Queensland

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. They, along with the Northern Pride

Northern Pride RLFC

The Northern Pride RLFC is a Queensland rugby league club founded in 2007. Based in Cairns, Queensland they compete in the Queensland Cup.-History:...

, will be one of two expansion teams for the 2008 season of the Queensland Cup

Queensland Cup

The Queensland Cup is the premier rugby league football competition in the State of Queensland, Australia.It is a statewide competition with the majority of teams based in South East Queensland but also including sides based in Cairns, Mackay and Rockhampton.The competition began in 1996 as a...

. Their home ground will be at the Mackay & District Junior Rugby League grounds in Mackay. The Labor government also made a pre-election promise to upgrade the stadium at the JRL grounds to the tune of $8 million. The Cutters act as a feeder club to the North Queensland Cowboys

North Queensland Cowboys

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, who play in the National Rugby League

National Rugby League

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.

The new club have no ties to the Mackay Sea Eagles, Mackay

Mackay, Queensland

Mackay is a city on the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia, about north of Brisbane, on the Pioneer River. Mackay is nicknamed the sugar capital of Australia because its region produces more than a third of Australia's cane sugar....

's Foley Shield representative side, which competed in the 1996

1996 Queensland Cup Season

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 and 1997 Queensland Cup

Queensland Cup

The Queensland Cup is the premier rugby league football competition in the State of Queensland, Australia.It is a statewide competition with the majority of teams based in South East Queensland but also including sides based in Cairns, Mackay and Rockhampton.The competition began in 1996 as a...

 seasons.

2008-2009

The Cutters in their debut season finished in the bottom half of the ladder. In 2009 the Cutters came last on points differnce.

2010

The Cutters missed out on the finals in 2008 and 2009 before Paul Bramley arrived on the scene to get them one game shy of the 201 grand final.

• 2010 player of the year: Liam Taylor
• Sponsors' player of the year: Neil Budworth

2011

In 2011 it was announced Paul Bramley was announced from his contract and signed with Burleigh. The cutters signed the best possible replacement, Anthony Seibold a former Brisbane Broncos player, South Wales scorpions coach and Wales assistant test coach. The Cutters narrowly missed the finals in 2011 after a injury havok season where the squad used 43 players. The Cutters also made a major coup by signing former Warriors and Cowboys half Grabt Rovelli who had 95 NRL games to his name. He was a star player for the QLD Residents match played in 2011.

• 2011 player of the year: Lewis Balcomb
• Sponsors player of the year: Jardine Bobongie
• Rookie of the year: Bureta Farama
• Clubperson of the year: Tony Gambie

2012

Anthony Seibold has already begun work on the 2012 season signing big name players David Milne from the Canberra Raiders, Rohan Ahern from the Brisbane Bronocs, Jason Schrinack from the Wests Tigers, Andrew Gay from the Wales 4 nations squad and Michael Thomas from the Raiders. They also signed former Toyota Cup players Aidan Day from the Northern Pride, Matt Minto from Easts, Dean Webster from North Sydney and Chris Gesch from Central Comets. Dean Tass and Kelvin Nielson are the players they have signed from Mackay teams (Souths and Wests). Anthony Seibold has signed 11 players and only lost 4 for 2012. Seibold wants depth in the squad for 2012. They also signed (in the mid season of 2011) talented youngster Bureta Farama who scored 21 tries in less games for Mackay club Wests after moving up from Brisbane. Farama was named Cutters rookie of the year after scoring more tries than more games played in 2011.

2011 Squad

External links

• Official Mackay Cutters Site