After starting the season 0-4, the Tigers Men have moved up to 5-6 after defeating the Ballarat Miners and claiming the ownership of the SIXT Cup.

Ballarat of course is the team that likes to dine out on the fact that they once beat the NBL team in 1989, that Tigers team was on the up after some barren years, beating the 1992 team would have been an entirely different story.

The win puts them thirteenth on the ladder and have Nunawading up next who are currently 9th with a 6-5 record.

The Tigers Women have slipped down to tenth on the ladder after losing 101-92 to Ballarat, they now have a 5-6 record and their opposition this week (Nunawading) is eighteenth with a 2-9 record, a record that we hope to make 2-10 as the Tigers battle to keep touch with eighth spot (Frankston with a 5-5 record).

The season is going pretty quickly, there are just nine games to go for our Tigers and hopefully the two Tigers teams can win 50% or better of those nine to make a year of it, it has already been a good year and more success can take the club even further.

Meanwhile it was ten years ago today that the Tigers NBL team was turned into Melbourne United as its owner wanted a bigger slice of the Victorian pie, some fans stayed with the team through the changes, some fans are originally walking away rejoined the team after they had achieved some success and some fans never went back to Melbourne and the NBL and stayed with the Tigers as they rebuilt through BigV, SEABL and NBL1.

It has been a long ten years following the Tigers, we haven’t had a whole lot of success at NBL1 level, but everything is on the up for the Tigers from players to sponsorship, there is still a lot of journeying left to do and we’re going to be here for it.