Julian Pitts
In front of a huge home town crowd on past players and life members’ day, the Rococos Noosa Tigers buried any finals’ dreams that the Maroochydore outfit may have had driving into the picturesque Weyba Rd headquarters.
An enormously successful mega auction day featuring the explosively funny man Darren Carr made way for the Tigers’ best win of the season and their sixth overall in 2023.
Big ruckman Callum Crisp capped an outstanding year with another best on ground performance. Class utility Lachy Flagg was his courageous and reliable self down back while power forward Aaron Wilson bagged three and put on a show for pro Noosa crowd. Ryan Crisp continued his run of good form while Jai Fitzpatrick and Will O’Dwyer were very good contributors also.
The senior women rounded out the huge day of football with a resounding win over Gympie and now await an opponent for a home preliminary final on 2 September.
Plenty of milestone games among the women with teenager Chloe Pitts playing her 100th game for the Noosa Tigers and three-time premiership players Jess ‘Trish’ Trompf and Star onballer Ragen Mills playing their 50th games for the club. Chloe Pitts, also a member of the 2022 premiership joins Sari Abbott, Hannah McKenzie, Ella Reddaway, Lauren Vaughan and Letitia Fox as girls who have done the complete junior to seniors pathway at the Tigers.
Well done girls!
And on the topic of women going places, a massive congrats to Noosa girl Lily Baker on being selected among the top 40 (17-18 year olds) in the country where she will train and play in Melbourne in a future AFLW pre draft training camp.
Season 2023 is all over for our senior men’s teams, however, we still have several junior sides involved in finals with Michael Breen’s U13 boys and Matt Cook’s U15 girls already advancing to grand finals following great victories last weekend.
Senior Vote Count day this Saturday from 11.30 am followed by our Noosa Tigers inclusion team who will play Moorooka and Carrara.
Also a hugely successfull Under 9s carnival held at Noosa last Sunday. Big thank you to all involved!
And a very special congratulations to two Noosa Tiger champions who announced their retirements last weekend – Garry Wallace and Tyler Stack.
Garry, a Noosa junior from the start, a colts, Reserve grade and Senior premiership player who has played well over 400 games for the Noosa Tigers Hence why he is a club life member and Sunshine Coast AFL hall of fame member.
And Stacky a dual Senior premiership player, champion wingman and club leader.
Both cracking blokes. Thanks heaps boys.
Good luck to all those representing the Noosa Tigers this weekend and massive thank you to all involved at our mega auction day and past players/life members day last Saturday. Just a ripping day at the footy!
Go Tigers.
