The Rococo Noosa Tigers have outworked the Mt Gravatt Vultures to the tune of 45 points to notch up their fifth win of season 2023.
The Noosa lads lead from start to finish and whilst Mt Gravatt were able to get within nine points late in the third quarter the Tigers kicked away in the last to the delight of their home fans.
There’s a lot to like about this emerging young tiger group with once again several colts or just out of impressing at this strong QAFL standard last Saturday.
The two Coopers, Ogden and Airie Bamback both looked like season performers with their footy smarts and decision making throughout first class. Both hit the scoreboard with two and three majors respectively to be key contributors to the tigers victory. Big Callum Crisp in the ruck was just awesome all day. He amassed over 50 hit outs, many to advantage particularly with skipper Aaron Laskey and was terrific around the ground for four quarters also. Lachy Flagg down back was superb also the entire game repelling everything that came his way and set up many forward thrusts for the victors. Once again Flagg was having a very good year. Aaron Wilson was a focal point up forward and whilst the power forward booted four majors it could have been several more not for errant kicking but even still his presence was crucial to the tigers success. Zac Vernon was great again off half back whilst Kurtis Evernden racked up plenty of touches in the middle to be one of Noosas best. Laskey and Rodgers were more than important additions to the Senior team with both having very good games whilst match winners O’Dwyer and Pettigrove flashed in and out providing the home town crowd with many exciting highlights.
All in all a fantastic win and well deserved.
The Reserves were over ran in the end and still require st least one victory from the final two games to be finals placed whilst the Colts were undermanned and beaten quite heavilly on the scoreboard.
Media Award Votes
5. C.Crisp
4. L.Flagg
3. A.Wilson
2. K.Evernden
1. Z.Vernon
Our Senior Mens team have a bye this weekend.
Our Senior Womens team had a hard fought 19 point victory to keep their unbeaten season going against a very physical Pine Rivers on Saturday night.
The two grand finalist from 2022 certainly have no love lost between them with the class and running ability of the Tigers coming to the fore.
Ruckman Erin Mc Laughlin was awesome for the victors as was Andrea’ rocket’ Partridge who totally owned her wing the entire night. Ragen Mills, Cass Young and Amelia Monk great performers for the tigers also.
Our girls face Hinterland at Palmwoods this Saturday afternoon from 4.45pm.
A big congratulations to 2019 Noosa Tiger premiership player Kendo and Monroe Buntain who were married last Saturday. The Buntain name ofcourse synonymous with the Noosa Tigers with father Brett a champion defender in the 90s and brothers Riley and Tallis still playing in the Seniors. Riley ofcourse one of the great Noosa Tigers over the past deacade!
Also a big thank you to Tom Monahan and all those who helped organise what was a very fun ‘Tigers Ball’ last Saturday night at Noosa Springs!
Our last home game is Saturday 19 August where we will host arch rivals Maroochydore in the men’s and Gympie for the Women. The day coincides with our annual ‘ Past Players’ day and our ‘mega auction’ day so should definitely be put in the calendar.
Good luck to all those representing the Noosa Tigers this weekend.
See you at the footy!
