Tigers Football and Sporting Club Manjimup

28/08/2026

LSWFL VOTE COUNT in progress tonight..

👏👏Congratulations to the following Tigers players on receiving association honours & to all those who polled well throughout the season.

Kenny Beggs
F&B COLTS

Jed Edwards
Great Southern C**ts Carnival F&B

Jaya Logan
R/Up F&B RESERVES (3-way tie with Tom Collins & Brad Kammann)

26/08/2026

https://www.ticketebo.com.au/tigers2026awardsnight

Tickets for 2026 Awards Night on sale now.
Contact Jodi to book a table of 8-10, otherwise will be allocated to a table of best fit.

23/08/2026

𝘎𝘈𝘔𝘌 𝘋𝘈𝘠 𝘞𝘙𝘈𝘗 𝘜𝘗: 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘴:

1𝘴𝘵 𝘚𝘦𝘮𝘪-𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘴:

Congratulations to both our C**ts & Reserves teams on winning their 1st Semi-finals today at Kojonup.

🏉𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘵𝘴:

Disco & Drakeys C**ts boys beat Imperial’s 17:18 to 3:3 - a great team effort.

Most of the Tigers lads made the trek over to Koji on Sunday for the ‘Do or Die’ first Semi final clash against Imperials.
The boys were keen to make amends for their recent showing against Deanmill, and that they did. A tightened backline and improved structure in the forward performed well to stem the constant pressure from Imperials.

An impressive performance from our impromptu Ruckman Finnley Ruffino led the charge with strong, staunch support from Kenny Beggs, Hadley Edwards, Kelly Drake and Haiden Lagana.
Constant run from Reef Watson alongside Corbin Marshall and Will Johnston kept the forward pressure high against a resilient Imperials backline.

Although the constant pressure did take its toll on the Imperial boys, with bags of 4 goals to Duncan Turner, 3 to Marco Rado and 3 to Chace Watson, who slotted in nicely from our 8/9’s team.
Our backline was pushed many times by the unwavering Imps, but Brin Booth stood tall with Daniel Lapinski, Zac Bussanich and Josh Crosby repelling many attempts to break through our line of defence.

All in all it was a great team effort from our boys, who were well supported by a large contingency of Tigers faithful.

Their teamanship and positioning came together well and they look ready to face the difficult challenge of either Southerners or Deanmill in the upcoming Preliminary final to be held at Tigers.

It must be said that the fight and determination from Imperials was highly commendable and made for a great clash, especially considering that many of the team were yet to ‘double up’ in another finals bout.

🏉𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘴:

Tigers reserves side came firing out of the blocks to claim our first finals win in over 15 years .

Coming up against a strong Imperial’s side who had the better of us throughout the year, we knew the task was a challenge.
Our young side played some exceptional, team first footy, cracking in hard to be first to the contest.

Lachie Fisher and Lynus Butler set the tone through the midfield, with immense tackle pressure and ball winning ability to give us multiple looks inside 50.
Stephen Giles had the ball on a string for the first half, breaking lines and giving us a real good chance as a we lead at the main break.

Robbie Rae dominated the contest albeit only playing 1 quarter of footy combined for the day. His 4 majors proved the difference between the 2 sides.

Paul Starkie, Jakeb Burford and Jono Millar were solid in defense, with Eden McLaren doing a solid shut down role on Imps most dangerous forward.

Calvin Parker rucked tirelessly all day, giving first use to ours mids for the majority.
The game in the balance heading into the last, Imperials played some fast, brave and attacking footy which nearly cost us our lead, however a super effort from our boys to dig deep and fight hard for the win.

Super proud of our boys, but we know that’s the first step to being where we want to be, come the years end. . Final score was TFC 9:12 to IFC 7:9.

Both teams will now play home Preliminary Finals in 2 weeks - Sunday 6th Sept.

We look forward to seeing the Tigers support at Rea Park. 🟡⚫️🟡⚫️🟡

22/08/2026

𝘎𝘈𝘔𝘌 𝘋𝘈𝘠 𝘸𝘳𝘢𝘱 𝘶𝘱: 𝘑𝘜𝘕𝘐𝘖𝘙𝘚 𝘍𝘐𝘕𝘈𝘓𝘚:

🏉𝘠𝘳 8/9'𝘴 2𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘮𝘪 𝘷 𝘉𝘰𝘺𝘶𝘱 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘬:

Congratulations to coach Luke Murphy & the yr 8/9’s on winning the 2nd semi-final today against Boyup Brook booking themselves a place in the grandfinal in 2 weeks.

BB: 4:6
TFC: 10:4

A fantastic team effort - so much improvement within this group over the season. 🟡⚫️🟡⚫️🟡
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Tigers 8/9s have booked their spot in the 2026 Grand Final following a very impressive four quarter effort to defeat minor premiers Boyup Brook in the second semi final at Deanmill on Saturday.
With a full strength team primed and keen to give it their best, it was a super team effort that saw them slowly gain ascendency and eventually win the match 10 goals 4 to 4 goals 6, a solid 34 point victory.
The win was set up by an amazing effort from the midfield who worked hard all day, winning clearances consistently and keeping Boyups stronger players quiet.
Noah Lapinski was sensational in the ruck, following up his tap work by winning the ball at ground level repeatedly. Along with Chace Watson they worked tirelessly, spending the majority of the game in the middle and running hard with the ball and also defending and tackling well.
Maddi Gunson and Max Hanrahan applied pressure on the Boyup runners all day, limiting the influence of their stronger players while getting plenty of the footy themselves.
The whole backline were solid all day, with Jensen Harris playing his best game of the season, with plenty of help from Noah Murphy, Richard Barron, Patrick Mann and Jake Smeathers constantly rebounding the ball back out of defence.
They were able to link up with the midfield brigade along with some great run from Marcus Leighton and Teale and Khalen Cutts on the wings to showcase some fantastic passages of play.
With the footy regularly heading into the forward line, Tayte Sharrock was dangerous in front of goals, with Hamish Ward providing a big target at centre half forward.
Jensen Harris proved to be just as dangerous when resting forward, snagging a couple of goals along with Maddi, Noah Lapinski and Chace hitting the scoreboard when in attack.
The reward for the awesome team effort is a week off next weekend, a chance to rest a few sore bodies, but the team will be training hard to be prepared to give it their best shot in the Grand Final in two weeks time at Imperials.
GO TIGERS ⚫️🟡⚫️🟡⚫️🟡

20/08/2026

19/08/2026

𝘞𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘳𝘢𝘱 𝘶𝘱: 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘷 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭:

🏉𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘵𝘴:

For the last game of the season before finals our Tigers colts took on Deanmill playing for the second spot on the ladder.

A nice dry sunny day made it a good skill level. Our first and second quarters were quality football and up to the task.

Trailing by only a goal at half time. However the third heading down the hill we didn’t capitalise and then let some easy goals through as our work rate dropped in the final quarter. Our loss meant we drop to 3rd on the ladder.

Congratulations to Haiden Lagana on receiving Tigers Brodie McFarlane Courage medal for the game.

Now it’s reunite head to Kojonup for the first semi against Imperials.

🏉𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘴:

Ressies

Tigers reserves side came up against top of the table Deanmill side over the weekend.
Playing Deanmill at home is always a challange at the best of times, let alone only managing to find a squad of 15 players to take on the challange.

The boys started well, maintaining 50% of possession, although unable to maintain scoreboard pressure.

Calvin Parker asserted his dominance in the ruck all game giving us first use, with the likes of Jaya Logan and Lachy Fisher taking advantage of this.

With Deanmill having a solid spread of players around the ground, they were able to continually intercept our forward entry’s and counter the other way.

Jakob Burford and Jono Millar were pivotal down back, reducing the scoreboard impact as much as possible.

1st semi final booked in this weekend against Imperials, in our first finals appearance in over half a decade.

🏉𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘨𝘶𝘦:

League

Tigers league side had the task of taking on Deanmill at Deanmill, in a chance to book ourselves a finals berth.
The game started exactly as we wanted, as we piled on 7 goals to Nil in the first quarter, although it wasn’t a direct reflection of the game. The home side still had plenty of ball, just failed to impact the scoreboard while we took our chances at the other end.

We continued to play a good style of footy through the second term, led by Jed Kemp, Cooper Nitschke and Jed Edwards. Our lead was slowly reducing, in what was a cracking contest before the half.

After our Auskick put on a halftime masterclass, unfortunately the league boys couldn’t follow suit as Deanmill came flying out of the blocks.

Our young troops started to play some nervous footy trying to hold on to the lead, rather than still attacking the scoreboard which proved to be our downfall.

Thomas Quaife played a great game down back, while at the other end Captain Reece Edwards put in one the best games of his career in an attempt to Will his side over the line.

A late fight back with Robbie Rae hitting the scoreboard among others, we reduced the margin to a single figures with just minutes remaining, but the boys ran out of petrol tickets as Deanmill ran away with the win and a finals position sewn up.

A disappointing end to what was looking like a promising season. Proud of our efforts to be more competitive than our previous seasons gone by, although not the end to the season we were after.

This weekend Tigers have 3 teams in finals…
8/9’s - 2nd semi v Boyup @ Deanmill. (Saturday)
C**ts - 1st semi v Imperial’s @ Kojonup (Sunday)
Reserves - 1st semi v Imperial’s @ Kojonup.

Let’s get around the players & support Tigers this weekend. 🟡⚫️🟡⚫️🟡⚫️

19/08/2026

𝘞𝘦𝘦𝘬 𝘸𝘳𝘢𝘱 𝘶𝘱 - 𝘑𝘜𝘕𝘐𝘖𝘙𝘚: v Deanmill

🏉𝘈𝘶𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘤𝘬/𝘚𝘶𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘤𝘬:

Last Thursday was the final training night for Auskickers & Superkickers & they finished off in fine form with a game each followed up with presentations & food on the verandah.

It’s been a fantastic season with our keen little footballers & massive thanks must go to our Coaches Nick Blechynden & Davin Bachos along with all the parent help every week.

Thank you to Muirs, Manjimup. - E.E Muirs for the sponsorship of the kids medals & windup. Muirs have been supporting the youngest in our club since coming to Manjimup & we sincerely appreciate your support of our football community.

The improvement & confidence of our little footballers has grown massively over the season - all thanks to the input from parents, grandparents, siblings & guardians.

Saturday saw some of them join with Deanmill Auskickers & Superkickers in the half time of league game & running out with our league players to finish the season off with a bang!!!

What a great experience!! Thank you to Deanmill for including our kids in this.

🏉𝘠𝘳 4/5’s:

Tigers battled Deanmill in the last game of the season out at Deanmill in wonderful conditions on Saturday. Led by best on ground C**t Burns Tigers rallied after 1/4 time to level the match.

Defence was solid with Ivy Lee moving up the ground to provide additional support. Trent and Joss pressured hard all game while Roy overcome a foot injury to attract close attention from rival players.

Tyler Kammann continued his dangerous form while the ever reliable Tyler Rose continued his great season…..

Our goal in any grade of community football is to see improvement & development & these two grades have definitely shown this.

The 4/5’s have been developed by Paul Starkie & supported at training with Marco Rado & Kelly Drake along with Charmaine Kammann, Sean Rose & Matt Doherty.

This group have had tough games during the season as a team of all yr 4’s & 1 yr5 - but their resilience & positive attitude maintained throughout & will be even better for it next season as a group of yr 5’s with some yr 4’s coming into the mix.

We look forward to seeing you all at the junior windup at Tigers on Sat 5th September .

🏉6/7’s:

Last game of the season against Deanmill who are really strong side.. our team played really well! Very slippery conditions, we had some exceptional pace out of the middle straight down for a goal that boosted everyone’s confidence and displayed what our team can do with a bit of confidence and doing those hard 1% things like shepherds and backing ourselves in for the overhead mark.

Our most courageous and best player of the day was Bayleigh, who spent time in the ruck getting the ball out of the middle, giving us plenty of run through the centre, tackling and fighting hard for the ball all game.

Other best players were Lachie who shared the ruck and half forward, getting some good centre clearances and good deliveries to the forward line.

Floyd with his great leading, marking and fighting for the ball at centre half forward.

Mitchell reading the play well and staying that kick behind which led to a few good intercepts and pinpoint deliveries.

Xavier giving 100% in his position and doing all the hard body things Backman have to do.

Everyone played really well and gave it a good crack and coach Wardy was so proud of everyone on the team! It’s amazing to see just how much everyone has improved and started to gel together as a team and do those team things that count for so much.

It’s definitely been trying at times this season, but seeing that improvement and that teamwork and the confidence to do the hard things has made me exceptionally proud as the coach.

Thanks to everyone for putting up with me and thanks to everyone who helped out! That can be said for the whole Tigers family in all grades, so much goes into this game that everyone gives up their time because they love our club and want to see our kids develop and improve and be a part of that tigers community, so thanks everyone involved……..Ash

Massive thanks to Ash in his first year as coach for all his time invested into these kids, supported by Nick Terrigno, Paul Edwards & colts player James Pape. Lots of players at this age group need one on one support to develop skills before getting into any game plan situations so extra hands at training are imperative.

We look forward to more support in this age group next season to keep developing this group.

🏉Yr 8/9’s:
Tigers 8/9s have earnt their place in the second semi final after a fantastic win against a very competitive Deanmill at home. The game was played at a fast pace with some impressive passages of play from both sides that made for a great spectacle for the crowd.

Tigers midfield were strong all day with Max Hanrahan fighting hard at every contest, and Chace Watson and Maddi Gunson gathering their share of possessions, with both getting forward and kicking goals. When the footy went into the backline, Noah Murphy read the ball superbly, taking intercept marks at will and using the ball accurately, with Ewan Ward playing a solid defensive game too.

Up forward Hamish Ward provided a target all day, taking some big contested marks and kicking an important goal. Nate Podzuika was dangerous when the ball hit the ground, creating many scoring opportunities and kicking a goal too.

It was an impressive win for the team against very strong opposition. The team are now excited at the prospect of taking on Boyup Brook in the second semi final this Saturday at Deanmill with a spot in the Grand Final the reward for the winner.

Lets get as many supporters as possible along to cheer them on. GO TIGERS ⚫️🟡⚫️🟡

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Thank you to Hannah, Fonz & Deanmill Juniors for including Tigers in the Brodie McFarlane memorial in remembering a young DFC player & celebrating his qualities - a courageous player who loved footy & his club.

Tigers Brodie McFarlane Courage Awards went to:

Yr 4/5’s - C**t Burns
Yr 6/7’s - Bayleigh Johnson
Yr 8/9’s - Max Hanrahan

🏉🏉🏉🏉🏉🏉🏉🏉

With the 4/5’s & 6/7’s seasons finished - we still have 8/9’s in the finals.

Let’s all stay together as a club & keep supporting 🟡⚫️🟡⚫️🟡

2nd Semi Final
Tigers v Boyup Brook
@ Deanmill oval
1:30pm

14/08/2026

Congratulations to Maddi Gunson on a stellar first season as a year 9 in the East Perth u18’s Rogers Cup….

Fairest & Best + Highest Goal Kicker 👏👏👏

Super proud of you Maddi, your commitment & your family commitment with the extensive travel & to still achieve what you’ve done. Absolute Legend💪💪👌