Julian Pitts
It’s presentation time for the Rococo Noosa Tigers with our annual presentation night and vote count finale to take place at the RACV resort this Friday night.
Always plenty of interest in who takes home the clubs highest individual honour with names such as ‘Bones’ Murray, Mark Vagg, Neville White, Caleb ‘Cubby’ Isles, Nick Hill and Tommy Templeton. All are multiple winners in our men’s section with only Ragen Mills a dual club champion in our women’s history and believe it or not our 2024 favourite again.
The champion on baller has been a model of consistency throughout 2024 and continues to win her own footy and be a high possession winner for the Tigers. Only 5 full seasons have been completed by a Senior Women’s team and if Rages’ was to win a third best and fairest it just shows how dominant a player she has been. And a huge reason behind our Senior Womens premiership success!
Skipper Kellie Barker has had a terrific season across half forward and was always in and around the best players for the Tigers. Her energy and spark is entertaining to watch and her leadership is just next level. Barks has been a true shining light on field in a year where results certainly didn’t go the Tigers way.
Tigers team leader and the very bubbly Amelia Monk is another to have had a terrific year at centre half back and should also poll well this Friday night. The highly skilled and courageous Monk is a terrific leader and character within the club and whilst missing games late should be right there in the finish!
For the men, well hard to go past recruit Mitch Conn.The 2024 QAFL team of the year member has just been outstanding in a team that really struggled for the most part this year. He consistently won his own footy, showed poise and guile in possession and delivered the footy with precision.
Local champion Jai Fitzpatrick should be right there in the hunt also after another superb season.The Noosa local known as the ‘rolls Royce’ has never won the Senior gong but must have finished in the top 3 or 4 on five or six occasions. Fitzpatrick has skill, deceptive pace and an evasiveness that makes him one of the stars of the competition
Another local Mav Pettigrove has again had a fantastic year and must be in the running. Pettigrove, a two time Senior Premiership player at the Tigers finished top five last year and has continued his impressive form for the Tigers.The little maestro is just an elite kick of the footy to go with a smart footy brain and plenty of courage!
Speaking of club champions and tiger premiership heroes, a big congrats to Aaron Laskey and Ryley Buntain who starred for the Mildura Imperials last weekend to claim the Sunrsysia Football League Premiership!
And a big congratulations to the Morningside Footy club on claiming this season’s QAFL Grand final in a thriller over Redlands last Sunday!
Footy fever is truly in the air as the AFL prelims approach this weekend. I’ve tipped one of six so far this finals series so see how I go here!
Sydney by 27
Brisbane by 21
Go Tigers
