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Johnston offered Pre-season trial with the Bulldogs

Tigers Prop Josh Johnston will head to the Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs to join the National Youth Competition u20’s for a pre-season trial. If josh’s form is good enough he will be added to the squad for the 2015 season.

Josh had a big season in 2014 with the Pirtek Emerald Tigers picking up the A Grade player of the year aswell representing Central Highlands in the 47th Batallion carnival.

Josh will re-unite with his former Tigers teammate Connor Jones. Jones spent 2014 at Emeralds affiliate club the Easts Tigers learning his trade as half. Connor who is already in the Bulldogs 2015 squad will also be looking to impress.

Good luck to both lads and all the best for the future.

3 November, 2014
Ebsworth scores contract at Capras

He has been the safety net at the back of the Pirtek Emerald Tigers for the past 3 years. Amassing a huge tally of points for the Green and Whites being the first choice Goalkicker and also a frequent try scorer, Ray’s form has been noticed by the Jason Hetherington led team.

Ray was invited down to CQ Capras last game at Norths Devils last year as 18th man. Ray has also represented the Central Highlands numerous times at the custodial No.1 jersey. The 2014 “Tiger of the Year” has now been signed into the top 25 Capras squad and will fight to get into the top 18 weekly which will play Intrust Cup.

Ray makes the move to Rockhampton this week to join his new teammates for a gruelling pre-season and fight to grab a role in a team who has just added a quality fullback in former Queensland Cup Player of the year Javarn White.

We wish Ray all the best in his future footy.

3 November, 2014
Austin going back to Easts

Tigers Centre Whetu Austin will be returning to Easts Tigers in 2015 to start in the Fogs A Grade squad. The squad he will be joining has won the past 3 premierships. Whetu has the opportunity to play his way into the Intrust Cup Squad if his form permits.

Austin was at Easts in 2012 and 2013 playing for the U20’s. He rejoined the Emerald Tigers midway through 2013 and played in the A Grade Grand Final and picking up “Best Back” and “Top Try Scorer after only playing 8 of the 16 season games. Spending the start of 2014 in England he played overseas for the Milford Marlins and was successful in his UK stint.

All the best Whetu.

3 November, 2014
2014 Award Winners

Tigers kicked off a great 2014 presentation night at the Emerald Maraboon in September. Lots of laughs and drinks for the end of season party. Thanks to everyone who was a part of our successful 2014 campaign. See everyone again next year.

The Emerald tigers would like to congratulate all of the 2014 award winners!!

Thank you Awards and Presentations:

– Ladies Coach, Assistant Coach, FAO – Gee Martin, Brendan Green & Adam Richards…

· Mens Coach, Assistant Coach, Manager – Chris Catip(absent), Brett Winkler, & Peter Moore(absent)

· Old Boys Presentation for contributions to the club – Phil Rooney Alan Douglas and Blake Rooney

Player and Club Awards:

· Top Hit Ups – Jess Bell(Absent) & Joshua Johnson

· Top Tackles – Henry & Casey Watkins

· Top Try Scorer – Casey Watkins & Isaiah Huet

· Top Points Scorer – Maria Rawiri & Ray Ebsworth

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· Mr. and Miss. Versatile – Clint Day & Casey Watkins

· Ticker Award – Maria Rawiri & Kitione Saukuru(Absent)

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· Rookie of the Year – Jenny Whittaker & Tani Totau

· Player of the Year – Casey Watkins & Josh Johnson

· Best Back – Amy O’Loughlin & Isaiah Huet

· Best Forward – Jess Bell(Absent) & Griffin Freeman

· Ladies Coaches Award – Maria Rawiri

· Mens Coaches Award – Henry Watkins

· Players Player – Ray Ebsworth, Darcy Darby &Jenny Whittaker

· Honorary Player – Peter ‘Boyze’ Harbord

· Old Boys Player of the Year – Wendy Green & Ray Ebsworth

· Club Person of the Year – Jay Edwards

· President’s Award – Brooke Walker

· Tiger of the Year – Ray Ebsworth

2014 ladies Team

2014 Mens Team

The Afterparty………

11 October, 2014
2014 Presentation night held at Maraboon Tavern

Ray Ebsworth(Tiger of the Year) & Miranda Bartley(Ladies Premiers 2014)

The Emerald Tigers hosted their annual presentation night at the Maraboon Tavern and it was a great success. Celebrating a successful year by both teams the Tigers would like to thank the Tavern for the wonderful service on the night.

2014 Award Winners

· Ladies Coach, Assistant Coach, FAO – Gee Martin, Brendan Green & Adam Richards
· Mens Coach, Assistant Coach, Manager – Chris Catip, Brett Winkler, & Peter Moore
· Old Boys Presentation for contributions to the club – Phil Rooney Alan Douglas and Blake Rooney

Player and Club Awards:

· Top Hit Ups – Jess Bell & Joshua Johnson
· Top Tackles – Henry & Casey Watkins
· Top Try Scorer – Casey Watkins & Isaiah Huet
· Top Points Scorer – Maria Rawiri & Ray Ebsworth
· Mr. and Miss. Versatile – Clint Day & Casey Watkins
· Ticker Award – Maria Rawiri & Kitione Saukuru
· Rookie of the Year – Jenny Whittaker & Tani Totau
· Player of the Year – Casey Watkins & Josh Johnson
· Best Back – Amy O’Loughlin & Isaiah Huet
· Best Forward – Jess Bell & Griffin Freeman
· Ladies Coaches Award – Maria Rawiri
· Mens Coaches Award – Henry Watkins
· Players Player – Ray Ebsworth, Darcy Darby &Jenny Whittaker
· Honorary Player – Peter ‘Boyze’ Harbord
· Old Boys Player of the Year – Wendy Green & Ray Ebsworth
· Club Person of the Year – Jay Edwards
· President’s Award – Brooke Walker
· Tiger of the Year – Ray Ebsworth

24 September, 2014
Tigers get the call up

Josh Johnston(left) and Ray Ebsworth recently got the call up to travel with CQ Capras down to play Norths Devils. The Capras having injuries were looking to give some new players an opportunity to get a taste of Queensland Cup and let them showcase their talent.

Unfortunatly for Ray he was named 18th man on the day and didn’t get to play but Cq Capras staff said they were happy with what they saw at training the previous day. Josh did get to play off the bench and was injected into the game first at second row but then moved to his more comfortable spot off front row. Josh received good comments from the Capras on his gametime and they said “He didn’t look out of place at all”. Unfortunatly the Caparas were convincingly beaten Josh said “the experience was awesome”.

Both players are now on Capras radar for 2015. Hopefully these lads can get a start as regulars in the Queensland Cup in 2015. We wish both lads the best of luck.

24 September, 2014
Tigers mens exit the finals

Unfortunately the Tigers mens have finished one game short of the Ch Mens Grand Final. The were beaten by Clermont Bears 38-22 in a replay of last years Grand Final. The Tigers were 24-6 at halftime and needed a big lift to get the boys home. The Tigers lost prop Dan bock early with a broken hand. After the break the Tigers came out and was on the front foot for the first 15 minutes. The Tigers had a few injuries creeping in and the knee injury to workhorse Griffin Freeman After clawing back to 30-22 with 9 minutes to go the bears scored to make the deficit more than 2 converted tries. With the whistle hurting the Tigers it was hard to gain momentum. The bears finished off with a late try and sealed the Tigers fate. On the day big performances by Matt Langby, Ray Downie and Wade Campbell earned them match points. In a sad day for Tigers Captain Henry Watkins and experienced campaigner Ray Downie retired along side the earlier retirement of Peter Boyze Harbord. Henry Watkins joined the club in 2012 from Springsure Mountainmen as they had folded. His leadership was quickly showing and he was made captain in 2013. The 2013 Grand Final was his first in senior league which he captained. Henry picked up Coahes choice award in 2013 and 2014.

Ray Downie is one of the most experienced Tigers of all time. Hey played for over 10 years and has won “Tiger of the year” in 2007 and 2012 and “Best Forward” multiple times.He has also captained the Tigers.

Peter Harbord retired before seasons end due his work commitments changing to another area. Boyze as he is known is a very likeable bloke amongst the Tiger crowds. His barnstorming runs will be missed. Strarting his career in reserve grade for the Tigers he picked up “Best Forward” 3 years running before joining the A Grade squad fulltime. The Tigers mens would like to thank all of their supporters and sponsors for 2014 and hope to see everyone again in season 2015.

24 September, 2014
Tigers Ladies No.1

The Emerald Tigers Ladies have beaten the Clermont Bears Ladies 10-6 in the Grand Final at Bluff on Aug 30. The Ladies also finished Minor Premiers and have won the very first CH Womens Competition.

Formerly the Tigers Ladies competed in the Rockhampton womens competition against Yeppoon, Fitzroy-Gracemere and Gladstone After finishing last year in 3rd spot and not being able to contest the semi-final due to numbers the ladies have backed it up with a great season.

The game was a very tight one and was taken away from Clermont when Tigers Casey Watkins took an intercept and raced 70m to get the ball deep into bears territory. With only a minute on the clock the Tigers ladies attacked the line with no success. Clermont came up with the ball on their own 10m line with 18 secs remaining. The went for a hail mary kick and was cleaned up at the back by Amy O’Laughlin. The siren sounded as Amy took the tackle.

Clermont had the jump on Tigers looking the much better team for the first 15 mins and hard running fullback Carly Bell scored to open the scoring with a 40m break. Donna Kilpatrick converted. With Carly having 3 20m plus runs in the first quarter off the game she was shut down by some committed Tigers defence.

Just before half time Casey Wakins scored and Captain Maria Rawiri scored to make it 6-all at the break. Coming out after halftime the Tigers never looked back. They held the bears in the own half for the majority of the half but to Clermont credit between there defence and some last play mistakes the Tigers had trouble getting over the line.

With the game in the balance Emma Holzwart scored out wide after returning from holidays. Maria Rawiri’s kick just missing the Tigers lead by 4 8mins from full time. The Tigers grit and commitment was the driving force behind the defence displayed to closeout the Grand Final.

Props Jess Bell and Wendy Green had strong games up front with Wendy being concussed after a barnstorming 30m run up the guts. Casey Watkins managed to keep finding herself in the right place at the right time which earned here the “Player of Grand Final” award.

The Tigers Ladies would like to thank all of the supporters and sponsors for a great year and hope to see everyone again next year when we defend our title.

24 September, 2014
Easts to take on the Capras @ Emerald

Country Week in Emerald will be an exciting and never seen before event for Emerald. This game is an official round game and points will count towards the finals race.

The Emerald Tigers are proud to bring this great initiative named “Country Week”. The QRL,Nrl and State Government have got behind this great event and with it bringing the 2nd strongest competition in the world to Emerald.

Their will also be alot of development that comes with the weekend. Their will be clinic’s held through the weekend directed by Dom Draper, Beth Harlow, Rhys Wesser, Billy Moore aswell as both Easts and Capras player. Most facets of rugby league in CH will be able to get to development clinics and even the referees will have a clinic on the sunday morning from Intrust Cup Referees.

On the day their will be junior boys and girls rugby league untill 3pm and then the seniors kick in with games for Ladies(Emerald Tigers vs CQ Dreamers 3.30pm), Intrust cup(Easts vs Capras 5pm) and local A grade(Emerald Tigers vs Emerald Cowboys 7pm).

The Maraboon Tavern will be hosting events in partnership with the Tigers. Other events at the Tav on the weekend will be a meet and greet on the friday night(8/7) @ 8pm Maraboon Tavern(guests include Billy Moore, Rhys Wesser, Jason Hetherington and players from Easts and Capras, Saturday Afterparty(9/7) 9pm-2am @ Maraboon Tavern. Their will be FREE BUS TRANSFERS from McIndoe Park back to the Tavern starting around 9pm from the front of the fields.

If you want to watch the Capras or Easts train their will be 2 public training sessions that you can tag along to. Easts will train from 5.30-6.30pm at Mcindoe Park on Friday the 8th August finishing with an opposed session against your local Emerald Tigers. And Capras will be training at the Ag College from 5-6pm on Friday. Come along a watch these guys work on the finishing touches before they go head to head on the Saturday.

We hope that the community gets behind this great event and development opportunity and enjoys what is sure to be a massive weekend!!!!!

Keep updated on www.facebook.com/emeraldtigers

25 July, 2014
Duroux Shield returned home

Captain Ray Downie(left), Griffin Freeman(middle) and Pete Eversham celebrate the win.

The Tigers have broken a 2 yr drought and won the Duroux Shield by 6 points. In a game that had everything, the last 25 mins was nail biting.

The Tigers started with the worst first half of season 2014. It was riddled with mistakes and penalties and the man in the middle let us know about it. The penalty count mounted and at one stage the Green and Whites defending 4 sets in a row on their own line.

The Cowboys had a very spirited and young team which kept turning up for each other. The Cowboys easily the better team of the first half going into the break leading 12-4. One of the highlights form the first half was a charge down by 5/8 Brendon O’neill that lead directly to a try for half Brendon Kelly.

Coach Catip was very descriptive in his disappointment of the first half. The lads had a very simple plan heading into the last half but had to stick to it if they wanted to remain in this match.

Tigers started slowly in the second half but were gaining momentum and continued to make mistake at the business end of the field. The game was back in forth untill a very dominate and brutal 10 mins from Josh Binnie. Not long after the rest followed suit by stepping up a level.

The game was very physical and a few of the Cowboys had left the field with injuries and Tigers took the lead 16-12 with 28 remaining. Halfback Brendon Kelly was sent to the bin for 10 but served nearly 13 mins. Cowboys scoring just before Kelly’s re-entry to the field to lead 18-16 with 17 to go.

A few minutes later the Tigers got a penalty from right and front. Fullback Ray Ebsworth made sue of it and it was level at 18 a piece. After a good set from Tigers and a piggyback from a penlty, Ray Ebsworth scored and converted to gain a 6 point lead with 3mins to go.

The last few minutes had everything you could expect out of Rugby League including a Penalty to the Cowboys 20m from the Tigers line which the kicked dead returning the ball back to Tigers with 40 secs remaining and sealing the Duroux shield return to it Namesakes former club.

Player awards and points
3 Josh Johnston(prop)
2 Des Sofea(second Row)
1 Brendon O’Neill(five-eight)
Players Players went to Ray Ebsworth(fullback)
Old Boys Player of the Match went to Captain Ray Downie(
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23 June, 2014