Julian Pitts
What a weekend. With footy always at the forefront and definitely the winner, it started on Friday where our 50 year celebration of Sunshine Coast AFL was held at the Alex Surf Club. And didn’t the Noosa Tigers clean up. Caleb Isles, Brett Duke, Nathan Winter, Rob Purvis and Garry Wallace all deservedly inducted in to the Sunny Coast Hall of Fame.
Bart Jaques, Doug Murray and Mark Vagg all elevated to legend status after their service to sunny coast Aussie Rules was duly rewarded. Vagg, a three time best and fairest from the Noosa Tigers also named at centre half back and named Captain of the Sunshine Coast team of the half Century. A wonderful achievement.
Neville White, Lucas Mathews, Caleb Isles, Matt Hicks and ‘Bones ‘ Murray also selected in the 50 year team and all champions of the Noosa Tigers. A wonderful day had by all who attended.
Then came Saturday, where popular clubman and reserve grade skipper Garry Wallace ran out in his 300th club senior game in front of hundreds of the Tiger faithful where a great win by the twos kept their finals dreams alive, with celebrations of Gaza’s efforts going long into the night and so they should. Add to those senior games more than 200 junior games and you have an amazing servant at your club. Congrats Gaz and hope there’s many more to come.
The great Victorian and Australian fast bowler, Merv Hughes, had the presidents luncheon in raptures the entire time and was quite simply one of the best functions in our eight year history of hosting them. The sold out 140-strong attendance had nothing but praise for the occasion with comedian Darren Carr (who I’m told is absolutely hysterical) our last guest speaker coinciding with our mega Auction Day on Saturday 13 August.
A big thank you to all involved with the luncheon on Saturday!
A great success!
The Rococo Noosa Tigers put on a commanding performance in front of a huge Noosa crowd with Key forwards Aaron Wilson and big Jono Freeman bagging 7and 6 goals respectively. Wilson of course in rare form after kicking seven last week also in the epic draw with Maroochydore.
Ruckman Connor McDonald continued his stunning season with another near best on ground performance with onballers Templeton, Laskey, Wallis and Fitzpatrick all taking up plenty of touches and having their own stamp on proceedings. Riley Buntain was terrific at centre half forward bagging four goals and having a hand in many others whilst Charlie Bowes across half back wax a full four quarter performer collecting 33 disposals and using the footy with great effect. A terrific victory by the tigers who continue to sit in fifth position and head down to the Goldy on Saturday to play Palm Beach in simply a massive clash. But as senior coach Chris Rourke said: “it’s really good that our destiny is in our own hands. We play the teams we need to beat to play finals so it’s up to us and I’m very confident about how we will end up”.
Media Votes v Surfers
5. A.Wilson
4. C.McDonald
3. C.Bowes
2. T.Templeton
1. R.Buntain
Sunday it was Junior fixtures everywhere – just a full weekend of Aussie Rules footy on the Sunny Coast.
See you down at training and good luck to all those representing Noosa this weekend.
