Frank Öhmo, who had replaced Bakunin midway through the last season, pressed for and got the new custodian he desired to guard Grilled's goal in the S-League. Enter eighteen year-old Clair Harlow, who found the going tough as he shipped goals to Singapore's premier teams.
Grilled peaked prematurely as they held champions Herron and embarked on three successive wins to ride high on the table by the fifth match, and things went steadily downhill from there. Seven losses in eight league matches followed, including a terrible 7-1 downer against Winning Eleven.
The catalyst was perhaps the 4-3 seventh round cup defeat by Joker 9, through a superhuman effort by Italian striker Gianni Di Pietro. Grilled had put their hearts into breaking through, and that blow to their confidence lingered for the remainder of the campaign.
Siu-Yue Rises.
Grilled were by no means the weakest in the league, and the early harvest helped them to maintain themselves easily in the comfort zone, seven points ahead of seventh-placed extreme power.
They faced II.4 champions GeostarZ United FC in the relegation decider, and triumphed with Martinsson and U-20 hopeful Au-Yong Siu-Yue breaking out a brace each. Grilled were, for a time, still within Singapore's top eight sides.
