To our dedicated and passionate members and supporters, the Club feels compelled to respond to sweeping, negative and unsubstantiated comments levelled in a newspaper opinion piece today.

As always, our board, staff, coaches, players, and members are united and committed to the cause. The timing of these inaccuracies is bizarre, given we are in the hunt for a finals berth and playing in front of a sold out stadium tonight.

The Club is well run and profitable, and this year boasts the second highest average home attendances in the competition, record membership and every corporate facility is sold out. The piece is clearly uninformed, so feel free to ignore it!