While it seems like no time at all since the 2024 Centenary year for the Tigers culminating in a magical dual premiership for the Mayne Seniors and Reserves, here we are again at the bottom of the mountain that is the 2025 season.
The Tiger hierarchy have been working solidly over the off season to date to make sure the club is ready for another year of combat on the field and that there is no premiership hangover.
The off field is largely set with the 2025 Committee finalised and operational with budgets set and agreed, season planning well underway and importantly coaching roles in place for all the teams. There are still a few positions to be filled but largely it is all systems go for another year in Tigerland and the first year of the club’s second century.
We have been waiting patiently for the QFA Division 1 Draw to be finalised which was launched but sadly had to be revised almost immediately with the withdrawal of the Beenleigh Buffaloes. Unfortunately the Buffaloes have been struck by an exodus of their prime talent on the back of a very tough season. We all know how hard it is keep the momentum going to sustain a football club year after year so we very much empathise with their current dilemma. They came up to Division 1 in 2021 and immediately played in a grand final but have struggled to sustain the list required.
We wish them well for 2025 and look forward to them being a strong and competitive club again in the not too distant future.
This now means that Division 1 is restricted to seven teams being Caloundra, Hinterland, Mayne, Moreton Bay, University, Sandgate and Springwood.
The Season will kick off with an away game against Hinterland on the 12th April with sixteen fixtures making up the usual number of rounds.
Highlights will include a new adversary for Anzac Day being traditional rivals in the Sandgate Hawks. This game will be held at Lemke Road on the 26th April and will include all the usual ceremony and appropriate recognition commensurate with a day of this significance on the Australian calendar.
Reunion Day will once again be held on the last weekend of May being Saturday 31st May to recognise and award the Mick Nolan Medal. It will also highlight and mark the ten year anniversary of the 2015 Seniors and Reserves Premierships. In a quirk of the draw we will also play Sandgate on Reunion Day.
We will play eight home games with the final round being 23rd August with a home game against the Springwood Pumas. We will play Hinterland, University and Springwood three times and the other clubs twice. There will be a final four with the Grand Final to be held on Saturday 13th September.
It promises to be a very competitive season with all the clubs looking to improve. The rumours are flying thick and fast about who has recruited well and who will be the big dogs of Division 1. Coorparoo have been the yardstick for a number of years but with their promotion to the QAFL, a leadership is up for the taking this year.
Hinterland are rumoured to have recruited very well, Springwood look to have a number of their stars back up and firing after an injury ravaged 2024 season, University pushed everyone last season to only just miss out on a grand final berth, Caloundra and Moreton Bay always recruit well while the Sandgate Hawks will be the big unknown having won the Division 2 Premiership. It will be exciting to see how everyone performs.
The Tigers Reserves are still looking very young and enthusiastic, the Thirds numbers are booming while our Women’s team is training hard and looking to have a big season in 2025.
The Seniors and Reserves have scheduled trial games for 22nd March against Springwood away and 29th March against Kedron at home.
The Mayne Season Launch is scheduled for the 22nd March at the Grange Bowls Club following the Springwood trial game and then it will be all systems are go for 2025.
The Tigers are looking to build on the fantastic support received in 2024 for the centenary year and look forward to seeing plenty of Tigers new and old at their games this year.
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