Well that wasn't how I hoped it would finish particularly after making a bet with my stepkids that I would wear a Roosters "something" one day this week including in meetings if Manly lost, and so now I am trying to convince them that a rooster pin/badge counts, or socks.
But hey we went alright. A few things going differently for us in the season and things might have gone our way.
Lehi Hopoate was a huge find and I think next year needs to be DCE's final stand for the cup before starting to look at the next round of halves. We need to also have a look at our backrow and alignment across the forwards, as backrow was this year our weak point. Make a few little tweaks and I think we will improve next season.
Its a long offseason and for me the Footy is done. I have no interest in watching a Panthers v Storm Grand final > too boring.
So for now, I really don't know.
What it means for the site, is that we are lagging behind a few versions of the engine that runs the site, so the offseason is going to see us do 2 things
1 - evaluate our server (we will probably look at our own barebones server, more expensive, but we are the sort of size now, where we are a noisy neighbour on VDS and I will just try and get the accounting right)
2 - Upgrade our tech stack and make sure everything works, migrate that to production
The second will spawn a bunch of subtasks and I think what we will see is a new design or theme as well since this one was build explicitly for an older version.
Its going to take a while and be quite a time expense for me so Ill get to it ASAP. If anyone wants to help with any of that you are more than welcome to throw your hat in the ring, especially any budding designers out there.
Also if anyone has any actual Temple and Webster codes, I am re-doing my office and need to save a buck