And captain Ricky Arnell concedes it's a "pain in the arse" that their only consistent performances have been the ones they don't want to be.

"Consistency with the ill-discipline has been a pain in the arse," he said.

"It's an individual thing and I don't think some blokes can get it through their heads at times. If everyone has that one bad error or that one penalty against them it, ends up being 13 bad calls."

Port City are slow learners with a number of ill-disciplined decisions already costing them a handful of matches.

And Arnell said he hasn't been the only one attempting to fix their disciplinary issues.

"You try and drill it into the boys as much as you can and there's a lot of leaders around the club. It's not just me, but I don't know what it is this year. It's been killing us and we've lost games off the back of it too," he said.

The Breakers currently sit in fourth position on the ladder with growing uncertainty surrounding whether the season will resume following the extension to regional New South Wales' snap seven-day lockdown.

During the week it was extended from August 22 to 29 and it now appears the Breakers will head straight into sudden-death finals footy.

"We'll come in at fourth or fifth so we now have to win every game so everyone's got to get it through their heads that this is now win or lose," Arnell said.

"If we lose we're gone. There's no second chances coming into the finals."

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