The team is back in sixth place but is just five points off the top six in the Southern Region club competition. It actually has the same win-loss record as Toko with four wins and six losses.
Toko is in fourth place thanks to five extra bonus points but Clinton can draw level on points with a good win in Milton tomorrow.
Coach Clint Robinson is bullish about his side's chances. The team was struggling earlier in the season with a skeleton crew of about 18 players.
But the side has picked up half a dozen or so players and is a decidedly different prospect from what it was during the first round when Toko recorded a narrow victory.
"The boys are adamant that we are not going to drop a game before the semifinals," Robinson said.
"They've got the belief, which the team hasn't had for a long time. It sort of all goes back to last year, when we ended up winning the bottom four cup."
Back-to-back wins against Lawrence this year were a big boost as well. Robinson said it had been about 16 years since the club beat its rival and the 22-17 win in the weekend was a gutsy effort, considering illness had swept through the camp and there were late changes to the playing personnel.
Battling to put a team together is nothing new, though. With player numbers dropping away in the area in recent years, the club has been in survival mode.
"We've been lucky in that we've picked up about seven boys in the last four weeks, so that has revitalised us a wee bit.
"Up until about round five or six, we were fielding just 18 players every weekend. I was having to play as well and my assistant coach as well.
"If you want to coach properly, you have to sit on the sidelines."
Robinson felt it was important for the club to make the playoffs to help boast morale and make recruiting that much easier next season.
"But hopefully, the crew we've got in place now are going to stay around for another couple of years - but you always get people moving on."