It’s that time of the year, pre-seasons have been run in the hot humid conditions, as usual, practice games completed, jumpers presented at the annual season launch and now all that awaits is Redlands in Round 1 this Saturday.
The Rococo Noosa Tigers Senior Mens teams will take in the very strong Redland Bay Sharks at Victoria Point in Brisbane this Saturday to begin their 2023 QAFL campaign.
It’s ironic really that these two teams meet again at the same place where the Noosa boys exited the 2022 finals in a thrilling battle by just 13 points.
Plenty of personnel changes at the Tigers with well over 20 new faces coming in to our senior ranks with head coach Chris Rourke and director of footy Ben Collins working feverishly over the summer to recruit quality that will continue to see the Noosa senior mens team involved at the pointy end.
The Tigers pre-season practice match form was solid without being spectacular however never did their best 22 play together, in fact, far from it.
Once again the Tiger outfit will look to the class and experience of local boys Laskey, Fitzpatrick, Buntain, O’Dwyer, Stack and gun forward Wilson with the form of Pettigrove and returning Noosa Junior and 2020 premiership player Mitch Langan a more than welcome inclusion.
Ex-Echuca defender Tom Monaghan looks like he will make a huge difference to the Tigers fortunes whilst the Crisp boys from Mytleford, Vernon from Phillip Island and Dawson from Ballarat will be more than a handful for opposition sides in 2023.
Our men’s reserve grade team under the tutelage of Tait Niddrie will be strengthened by the increased depth the Tigers have been able to harness over the pre season while Jed Costigan’s Colts, while depleted numbers-wise a month ago, seem to be pulling together and their showing against Mt Gravatt in the final practice game was more than impressive.
Sat April 1st vs Redlands (at Victoria Point)
9.30am Colts
11.30am Reserves
2pm Seniors
The Senior Men’s game will be live streamed through our Tiger TV Facebook page or on YouTube. Just hit search and type in Official Noosa Tigers.
A massive thank you to all that helped set up and complete a terrific season’s launch last Sunday and thanks once again to our wonderful sponsors as we head into another exciting Aussie Rules season at the Tigers.
Go Tigers
