The Rococo Noosa Tigers have pulled off a backs to the wall victory over Gold Coast heavyweights Palm Beach on the Gold Coast last Saturday.
The Tigers, without stars Fitzpatrick, Rogers and Bussey bounced out of the blocks brilliantly, particularly big Crisp in the ruck, who gave the in-form Will O’Dwyer and co first use of the ball. In fact, it was the homework done pre-game and the way in which the Noosa boys were able to execute was just awesome. And even late in the third term where the powerful Palm Beach got within 11 points and were looking to bring it home, the boys from Weyba Rd stood strong and went bang, bang, bang to put the result beyond doubt.
Senior men’s coach Chris Rourke was thrilled with the win saying, “we put a plan in place and to be honest the boys followed it to the letter. My brother Simon spoke to the boys at the intervals and they just followed the message unwaveringly. The boys were just terrific“.
“Our leaders Laskey, McCrimmon and Monahan were terrific all day, Tueohy gathered heaps of the footy the entire day, Crisp as mentioned earlier was the best big man on the ground, O’Dwyer is in some sort of form whilst gun forward Aaron Wilson bagged seven goals and made sure the result was put beyond doubt. Zac Vernon was typically busy also for the victors as they now set their sights on a big home game against Broadbeach at Noosa this Sunday.
The undepleted reserves went down by a big margin on the back of an enormous injury and unavailable list whilst the colts battled hard with the highlight apparantly the bus trip home.
Senior media award votes:
5. C.Crisp.
4. W.ODwyer.
3. A.Laskey.
2. J.Touhey.
1. T.Monahan.
The senior women had a strong win over the Gympie girls on Saturday night with Cass Young the star of the show.
Great to see our junior development program in action last week with six selected boys and girls training with the senior groups over the next six week period each Thursday night. Terrific initiative.
Massive day of footy at Tigerland this Saturday with all four senior teams at home and Richmond great Matthew Richardson our guest at the luncheon.
Good luck to all teams that put on the Noosa jumper this weekend.
Go Tigers.
