They have failed to register a solitary point in five games of football. They have conceded 644 to find themselves anchored to the bottom of the table.
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But the Gungahlin Jets are refusing to give in as they hunt for their first win - and their first point - of their AFL Canberra women's campaign.
Jets coach Tim Caesar concedes the results were "expected" after the club lost a host of key players at the end of last season.
It left the side, which not too long ago was one of the women's division's premier outfits, to start from scratch. But all the while, they have maintained a positive approach.
"When I was given the coaching role towards the end of last year, I started with seven players," Caesar said.
"So we recruited pretty hard and we have a fantastic group of women in, but they are all very very new to the game.
"I was not expecting to see a whole lot of scoreboard success early in the year."
The scoreboard has not been Caesar's measure of success. That won't change when the Jets meet the Queanbeyan Tigers at Gungahlin Enclosed Oval on Sunday.
"We are working really hard on developing our players knowledge of the game when majority of them are new," Caesar said.
"It's no small task, but I've got a playing group that are really keen, and are really eager and work really hard."
After conceding 644 points at the hands of their opponents over the first five rounds - twice losing by 169 - Jets captain Beth Coster remains positive about the improvements the team has made.
She knows it will take time. She knows the Jets can slowly close the gap if they keep plugging away.
"I think for our first game we had over half the playing side playing their first game ever," Coster said.
"You can tell that when you watch us play that we don't give up until the final siren and that's a win for me.
"So that's what we are building on at the moment. Obviously we can't rush game sense and skills, that will all take time."
Caesar says the inclusion of a handful of players backing up from the AFL Canberra women's representative round clash last weekend has fast-tracked Gungahlin's development.
"The girls have already been able to bring that higher level of training back to our training sessions, and we have seen a difference in the way the sessions have been running already," Caesar said.
TACKLE FOR A CURE
There is more to life than football.
If that is the only thing Peter McGrath can teach his Eastlake Demons squad this year, he will have succeeded.
Eastlake have launched a 'tackling for a cure' intiative designed to raise funds for cancer research at the Melanie Swan Memorial Translational Centre.
Demons players approach local businesses in search of a pledge per tackle they make.
"We can't guarantee we're going to win a grand final at the end of the day, that'd be nice, but at the end of the day after the season, at least we can say we've done something positive in the community," McGrath said.
"This year we decided to go with an important cause which we will all be touched by at some stage in our lives, whether that is ourselves or our family and friends."
Now the Belconnen Magpies are in the firing line as the Demons look to rack up the tackles at Football Park on Saturday.
