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Tigers tamed after a terrific 2025
BY GREG DAVIS IT is OK to be sad that the season is over. But also be proud of how far the Stara Easts Tigerscame in 2025 and the joy they gave the blue-and-gold faithful along the way. The Tigers’ Hospital Cup tilt finished one game shy of the Ballymore big dance when arampant Bond University blitzed their way to a 47-14 victory over Easts in the preliminaryfinal at Bottomley Park on Sunday. Bond will now take on Brothers in the 2025 showpiece at QRU headquarters this comingSunday and will take some beating in the decider having compiled an ominous...
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Beaten Tigers bid for bounce back in Bottomley blockbuster against Bond
By GREG DAVIS Pakistan cricket icon Imran Khan implored his players at the 1992 World Cup to “fight likecornered Tigers, because nothing is more dangerous than a cornered Tiger”. And that is exactly what Bond University will face when they take on the Stara Easts Tigersin the StoreLocal Hospital Cup Preliminary Final at David Wilson Field this Sunday for a placein the 2025 decider. The showdown for the last ticket to the Hospital Cup showpiece was set-up on a sparklingSunday afternoon at Sunnybank when the Tigers suffered a frustrating 38-28 loss toBrothers in the major semi-final while Bond sprung a...
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Match Report – Tigers gallop into Hospital Cup major semi-final
BY GREG DAVIS The Stara Easts Tigers are 80 minutes away from a berth in the 2025 StoreLocal Hospital Cupgrand final after roaring into the major semi-final with a rollicking rollercoaster ride thatfinished with a 50-31 rout of GPS at Yoku Road. The Tigers will now take on Brothers in the major semi-final at Sunnybank this Sunday withthe winner earning a direct ticket to the Hospital Cup’s big dance at Ballymore on 31 August.Wests and Bond will face-off in the sudden-death minor semi-final – a fixture that Eastswere staring down the barrel of after a sluggish start in the Round...
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Match Report – Guess who’s back, back again? Nuku’s back…tell a friend
BY GREG DAVIS POWERHOUSE no.8 Nuku Swerling returned to his bullocking, bone-crunching andblockbusting best as the Stara Easts Tigers completed a clean sweep of home games in 2025with the 36-21 victory over Sunnybank in Round 17 of the StoreLocal Hospital Cup. Eight times this year, the Tigers crossed the white line onto David Wilson Field and eighttimes, they emerged triumphant. Defending the hallowed home turf at Bottomley Park has been a major focus for the Tigersplayers and coaching staff throughout the campaign and they successfully repelled theireighth visitor with Swerling terrorising the Dragons at regular intervals. After a blistering start...
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