Greg Davis 30/07/2025

BY GREG DAVIS First came the rain. Then came the pain of the 28-10 loss to Brothers in the top of the table StoreLocal HospitalCup Round 16 clash at a water-logged Crosby Park. But the Stara Easts Tigers will get the opportunity to go again in their final home game ofthe year against Sunnybank this Saturday to claw back invaluable confidence andmomentum ahead of the finals. Injury was added to insult for the Tigers as hooker Max Craig and backrower Tau Tuisamoawere both forced to leave the field during the scrappy and sloppy encounter played inatrocious conditions. Craig gingerly hobbled...

Greg Davis 09/06/2025

A hat-trick to hooker Max Craig headlined a high-scoring Hugh Courtney Oval brouhaha as the undefeated Stara Easts Tigers claimed a thumping 49-27 win over Norths in Round 10 of the StoreLocal Hospital Cup. Queensland Reds squad member Craig claimed his triple treat by the 45th minute and spent the last half hour as a makeshift no.8 as the Tigers coaching staff was forced to go to their bench early and often on a day of attrition. Craig surged into second place on the Hospital Cup try-scoring table after taking his 2025 tally to nine by clinically finishing off the...

Greg Davis 05/05/2025

Albo and the ALP were not the only team to enjoy a landslide victory on Saturday. Just as election booths around the country were greeting the last of voters in the Federal election, the Stara Easts Tigers were securing their seat inside the StoreLocal Hospital Cup top four with a 45-7 demolition of University. The Tigers remain unbeaten in 2025 with their fourth win from four outings and their third triumph from as many attempts at Bottomley Park as Easts piled on 38 unanswered points in the last hour. Easts had been out of action for the best part of three weeks due...

QLD Rugby 04/04/2024

Written by Jim Tucker, courtesy of qld.rugby Source articleAnother big season of StoreLocal Hospital Cup action has arrived. As like any season, a lot has changed since Brothers lifted the cup at Ballymore last August. To mark the new season, we've cast our eye on some key storylines that could shape the season ahead.How will GPS recoup from the loss of many of their elder players?The Gallopers farewelled Cris Kuridrani, Michael Richards, Josh Collins and Jake Straker over the summer with the trio all calling time on their tenured first-grade careers. The quartet have 300+ first grade caps combined with...

Jim Tucker 08/06/2022

Brett Scott was the last of Brisbane club rugby’s great toe-pokers, a goalkicking marvel who amassed more than 1000 points in first grade for Easts. Rugby youngsters of today look quizzically at footage of toe-poke goalkickers as if they were dinosaurs from a lost age like landline telephones and two-cent coins. When Scott entered the grades in the mid-1970s as a schoolboy from Villanova College, it was the only way to kick.  Even when Michael Lynagh became Queensland rugby’s pin-up boy for the around-the-corner style of goalkicking in 1982, Scott was unmoved.  Paul McLean, Roger Gould, Mick Cronin, Graeme Eadie...what...