It’s been a very crazy last couple of days, just a few days ago it was days spent watching Melbourne United’s promotional efforts and wondering what can be gleaned from it for some future Tigers to NBL effort and now here we are excited about the Melbourne Tigers return to SEABL.

So what do we know?

– Tigers are returning to SEABL for the first time since 1983
– Men’s team in 2016, Women’s from 2017
– Andrew Gaze is coach of the Men’s team
– Tigers will play their games at MSAC
– The Age cares about the Tigers (Roy Ward in particular)
– Lindsay Gaze is still very hard working
– There’s still plans for the NBL

We’ll be playing against old NBL pals the Nunawading Spectres, Geelong Supercats and The Frankston Blues who were the Bears in the NBL and a host of other teams from Tasmania all the way to Queensland including the Ballarat Miners who still celebrate defeating the 1989 Tigers.

Player signings are still yet to be revealed and there is no membership details or season fixture in place yet but we can wait patiently for those and expect an avalanche of Tigers information when they are revealed.

There’s VJBL news as well, Congratulations to Georgie Nolan for first being a nominee for Girls Got Game and then being the Week 4 winner, well done Tigers fans on voting for her too for those is no doubt that Georgie is fully deserving of the win.

Don’t forget to come on home to the official Tigers Facebook page, 230 fans have joined the page so far and as the word spreads about the Tigers return to SEABL.

Let’s see what comes our way next week.

Go Tigers!

Andrew Gaze is officially the coach of the Melbourne Tigers SEABL team, this news is hardly a shock to fans as it was considered inevitable that the NBL legend turned Big V coach would take the next step and coach in SEABL.

The Tigers will be playing at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre (MSAC)  using both Show Court and Court 1, The Tigers being at MSAC is already familiar for Tigers fans as the Big V teams played at MSAC.

Player signings will come in the future, this has gotten fans curious as to who will be part of the team that will begin this new phase of the Tigers return to being one of the most well known sport teams in Australia.

Some fans have stated that the Tigers should go for the young player approach whilst some desire players from Melbourne United and other NBL teams.

There is still a lot for the Tigers to unveil such as sponsors, coaching staff and memberships but every bit of information is met with enthusiastic responses from Tigers fans and there is no doubt the enthusiasm will continue into 2016.

Go Tigers!

The heading of this story is not a joke, it was tweeted by Chris Anstey today and confirmed by others that the Melbourne Tigers will be joining SEABL.

This writer was just going through tweets on this nice looking SE QLD Sunday when Chris Anstey’s tweet sent a wave of dizziness as this was the good news that we’ve been waiting so long for.

Was it true? Was it a joke? Surely it was true and not a joke for Chris Anstey would never do that to fans and so the waiting game began with constant Twitter checks and hoping somebody would confirm or deny the story.

It wasn’t long before the avalanche of information came, first Andrew Gaze liked Chris Anstey’s tweet, major Tigers fan Graham Allen commented that it was true then Nigel Purchase tweeted the announcement is tomorrow.

To BigV, we love the competition and as we don’t know yet what will happen to the Tigers and BigV but we like to say that if the Tigers go we thank you for all you’ve done having us and if we stay we sure look forward to 2016.

To SEABL, Thank you for letting the Tigers into your competition, we are very grateful to you and Tigers fans hope the team will justify your decision through dedication, conduct and results.

To Tigers officials, you are our heroes for working day and night to get the Tigers into competition like SEABL, it must not of been easy considering the work that needed to be done from getting rights to start shopping for talent and coaches.

To our fellow Tigers fans, At times sticking with the Tigers while United was running hot and mass backed by the press would of been difficult to take but now the Tigers are going into a bigger competition people will see the Tigers are alive and well and your choice has been well justified.

Celebrate today/tonight Tigers fans!

We are now in the final days of Spring, The NBL is 8 rounds into it’s season and junior Basketballers are plying their trade around the country.

Tigers fans are watching their juniors with interest particularly those whose ages allow them to make their case to play in the State Championship Men’s and Women’s teams or the Youth teams.

Senior team lineups for 2016 will undoubtedly be different to this year as several Tigers have either gone to the USA, playing for other BigV teams or have gone on to other competitions.

2015 has been a good year for Tigers fans, the team scored more wins, memberships got a boost, social media input and output went up and with a month still to go there’s even more room for the Tigers to grow before we get into 2016.

The Tigers future rests in our hands, never forget that the little acts is what pushes things forward so like pictures, like posts, retweet and like tweets from the Tigers for those little actions keep things rolling.

To finish this new post, below is a YouTube video of Joshua White scoring many points and assists for the Tigers this year, some of the scores you’ll see are excellent long range shots and if you look closely in the background you may see an icon or two.

Go Tigers!

Townsville fans were last night celebrating their side defeating Melbourne United at Hisense Arena.

This morning they woke up to find Larry Kestelman imploring Townsville fans to turn up to games or face a real risk of losing their team.

Townsville have had poor attendances to their games this season by averaging under 2000 people per game however it should be noted that Townsville have had varying form, three home games and games mid-week that are considered the league’s graveyard shift.

The graveyard shift is games played from Wednesday to Friday, all teams have struggled to fill seats on nights where most families are resting from work or school.

Melbourne United had just over 6000 last night, in the 4000’s and 5,000’s on other nights but on Sundays they threaten or do achieve 8000-9000 which is a big increase on the previous figures and they are league leaders at this point of the season.

A couple of dozen words of advice to Townsville fans, when Larry Kestelman silently removed the Tigers from the NBL there was no inkling of it coming and so by giving Townsville advance warning the people have the option of doing something about the fate of their club.

Go to the games if you have the time and can afford to go and enjoy your team Townsville while you still have them because if the league expands you may not get them again.

Andrew Gaze returns to NBL commentating this Saturday night after being surprisingly left out of Fox Sports roster of commentators at the start of the season.

Fans and not just Melbourne Tigers fans couldn’t believe a guy with so much experience was left out in favor of NRL and AFL commentators but now it has been corrected all seems right in the NBL world apart from the sad fact there’s no Melbourne Tigers in the competition.

There is some bad news with Andrew now sidelined from SEN duties after the station shaken up it’s 2016 lineup and have removed Andy Maher, Andrew and Tim Watson from the morning program.

Andrew is not the only guy on the outer with Kevin Bartlett also appearing to be out as well, Kevin hosts ‘Hungry for Sport’ which was a wide ranging sports show and a great source of information.

With Kevin Bartlett apparently out of the lineup, Nigel Purchase will have to  discuss Basketball with somebody new but WANMU hopes both Andrew and Nigel will pick up radio shows and segments on SEN in the near future.

NBL fans are now disappointed with the news the competition is now on Fox Sports 3 instead of Fox Sports News, Fox Sports News is a channel Pay TV subscribers can get standard but you have to pay for the privilege of Fox Sports 3.

In summing up, it’s been a good week and a bad week for Andrew Gaze and it’s been a good week and a bad week for NBL fans.

Go Tigers!