Easts Tigers Rugby 28/03/2025

Easts Rugby Union Inc has expanded the participation base of the club over the past 5 years and aims to continuing growing this base with a particular focus on female and all abilities.The facility upgrades of unisex changerooms, new female and male toilets, new medical room and inclusive changeroom for referees will add benefits for all current and future members as well as the wider community.Easts Rugby Union Inc run a Modified Rugby Program for children with intellectual and physical disabilities and does not currently have a PWD facility.We are seeking community funding support to improve our facilities and enable...

Easts Tigers Rugby 20/01/2025

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Alex Cran 31/08/2023

SIMON CRAIG APPOINTED AS EASTS HEAD COACH Easts Rugby Union have appointed Simon Craig as Head Coach of Easts Premier Grade. Simon “Craigy” Craig has had a long and successful association with Easts dating back to 2008 when coaching his sons in Easts Juniors. He moved into the Easts senior coaching ranks in 2010 with 2nd Grade and has continued his coaching development through to Premier grade programs including successful Premiership winning teams. In addition to his involvement at Easts, Craigy has coached a number of representative teams including QLD Reds U/16’s, QLD Reds Academy and QLD Reds Super W...

Jim Tucker 01/09/2022

Search the rugby dictionary for the term “club stalwart” and you find names like Easts’ fifth grade halfback Mitch Gunning.  No prime-time 3pm kick-offs for him. He hasn’t played a match in that slot since school days at Villanova College in 2009.  On Sunday morning, he’ll be just as sharp for a breakfast kick-off at 9am for the Easts-Wests minor semi-final in fifths at Ashgrove.  Gunning, 30, has almost been a Tiger from the cradle. Give or take, he’s in his 23rd season since first running around randomly in Under-7s.  He was certainly down at the club before then because...

Jim Tucker 17/08/2022

Easts has enjoyed an international flavour few fully appreciate because the likes of Anton Toia, Richard Kinsey, Arwel Thomas, the Rauluni brothers and Grant Batty made the club their home. For some, it might have been a one-season stopover on a bigger rugby journey. For others like Toia and his family, the Tigers became a major part of a new life. The roll call of players from multiple points on the rugby map who found footy, mates for life and fun at Easts is impressive. Baby-faced young flyhalf Thomas (Wales), prop Darren Morris (Wales) and lock Stewart Campbell (England) went...

Jim Tucker 21/07/2022

Nigel Holt’s wicked sense of humour is as renowned as his reputation as a 1980s enforcer which explains the censure of his old Wallabies coach Alan Jones.  When the brawny, bustling lock from the best Easts’ teams of the 1980s was overlooked by Jones, Holt decided to make a point of it.  It just so happened his will was being drawn up at the time by a young solicitor named Marty Burns, who played in the same Tigers pack. The same legal eagle is now The Honourable Justice Martin Burns, Judge in the Supreme Court of Queensland.  Inserted next to...

Jim Tucker 14/07/2022

Being a kid brother at Easts means far more than a childhood of hand-me-down footy jerseys and iPhones.  If anyone needs proof of the “family club” vibe that beats so strongly through the Tigers, you only have to look at the four sets of brothers who are featuring in Premier Grade.  Remarkably, Matt and Alex Smit, Lachy and Will Kirk, JP and Laurence Tominiko plus Matt and Puke Skipwith-Garland are all contributing as brothers in arms.  Powerhouse tighthead prop Laurence Tominiko, 23, left Sunnybank to join Easts this season to turn the front-row into a family affair.  “I’ve been at Easts...

Jim Tucker 07/07/2022

A full 50 years before Meli Dreu and his mock white hair started dashing into the backline, a natural redhead began to make his mark as an Easts fullback. Bruce Cooke was just 19 when he emerged as a lean six-footer destined for higher honours in 1972. He shared in the 1972 reserve grade premiership before embarking on a seven- season first grade career that took him all the way to a Wallaby jersey. Cooke was a 35-game regular at fullback in the champion Queensland sides between 1974 and 1979 and a fan favourite at Bottomley Park for the Tigers....

Jim Tucker 30/06/2022

Towering lock Michael Stolberg left hospital to play a starring role in the 2013 grand final...and was back there on a drip when the celebrations fired up that night.  Not even all his teammates knew the full story when “Stolly” got himself kitted up, like normal, in the dressing room for the decider against GPS at Ballymore.  What unfolded was a courageous, full-on contribution from the key Easts forward in a rousing 27-22 success.  With GPS heading to Bottomley Park for Saturday’s Round 11 clash, it is a perfect time to celebrate the events of that famous Sunday in September...

Jim Tucker 24/06/2022

The mental health message in rugby that the Rick Tyrrell Cup has done such a worthy job of advancing is helping lives every day.  The eighth edition of this annual match between Easts and Sunnybank will be played at Oldmac Oval on Saturday.  That the Rick Tyrrell Cup holds as much or more meaning now as it did when launched with heavy hearts in 2015 is a testament to the prop, friend and family man it honours.  For those too young to remember, Tyrrell was the popular figure who started in the juniors and grades at Sunnybank. He rose to...