Club president Ivan Coleman thought there was just a general lack of interest in this season and said the club had little choice but to call it a day.

“We still had all the girls (League Tag) there, but under our constitution they’re not a stand- alone team, so we had a bit of a yarn and we decided enough’s enough. We’re beating our head against the wall,” Coleman said.

“Tingha’s game against the Moree Boars to be held at Tingha Sport and Recreation Club on Saturday did not take place.

“We rang Moree Boars up and they were pretty good about it. If you forfeit, then there’s a forfeit fee and that’s one thing we didn’t want to start paying out,” he said. 

“We could have hung on a bit longer, but it was going to happen, I think.”

Coleman said he had his own ideas as to why the club collapsed so quickly, but said when the Tigers lost all their senior players they were behind the eight ball from there.

“We just didn’t have enough players in the end,” he said. 

“People have asked me if there were internal problems in the club, but it didn’t seem to appear that way. No one’s said anything about it. Money draws, that’s got to be one of the things, people getting paid to go and play elsewhere has got to be one thing and we can’t afford to pay players.”

Coleman said he registered 62 players last season, 28 juniors and 27 women for the 2014 season. This year, numbers in the senior ranks are virtually non-existent.

“Guy Mepham was a big loss, and it just sort of rolled on from there,” Coleman said.

“But right across the board, from eight-year-old up, you can’t tell them where they’ve got to play football.”

Coleman said he would like to think a committee would be formed again next year for the team to participate, but he was uncertain if it would be done.

“It’s happened before. You see sides, they drop out and always take years to come back; Guyra, Warialda, it’s hard.

“Once clubs fold, sometimes they never come back, so I might be the last Tingha Tiger president.”