The following are this seasons BUML teams:
Heroes: (green)
Meagan Bulley (c)
Bradley Bull
Daniel Johnansen
Nathaniel Matuschka
Danielle Thamm
Andrew Thamm
Amy Enkelmann
Sean Mailander
Bec
Morgan
Juan Guerrero
Luke Stark
Agents: (orange)
Alana Folkes (c)
Toby Alexander
Vanessa Brown
Alex Ball
Don Bolte
Sandra Poon
Nathanael Harris
Lauren Hiller
Josh Weier
Marcus Allison
Clinton Allison
Chris Arther
Discheads: (Gunmetal Grey)
Katie Truss
Alex Thompson
Toby Davidson
Electra Joyce
Simone Bosson
Helena Lambert
Justin Modra
Chris Fox
Sarah Thompson
Sam Billingham
Jess Wrigley
Dave Warren (c)
Peter Truss
tbc (div1 heroes) (white)
Seb Brown (c)
Carl Behrendorff
Steph Moroz
Guarin Owen
Craig Behrendorff
Devon Biggerstaff
Chantelle Smith
Laura Behrendorff
Alex Chadwick
Daniel Strelan
Lauren Hutton
Michael Strelan
Jodie Dickson
These are the guys representing the club in the BPL:
Heroes (Green)
George Salisbury (c)
Carl Behrendorff
Chris Brown
Seb Brown
Vinko Grgic
Juan Guerrero
Myall Hingee
James Morrell
Bevan Rudolph
Paul Sanguinetti
Daniel Strelan
Michael Strelan
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Monday, February 20, 2012
Monday, December 19, 2011
looking back
2011 has been a massive year for the Heroes Ultimate Club; however, 2012 is shaping up to trump it.
During the year, the Heroes competed at almost every level with good and pleasing results. We made our Mixed Nationals debut this year, coming up with a 20th place finish, including a nail biting rollercoster cross pool game against the Villains- hailing from Townsville - with an end score 14/13.
The Green Men continued to improve with a BPL finals birth, losing to eventual premiers - Slamtown - in the semi-final. Chris Brown also won the Heroes BPL MVP, albeit self-awarded (and undisputed when announced). I'm sure these guys will be pushing to go one better next year.
The club again played with three teams throughout 2011, Heroes, Agent Orange and Discheads.
Discheads. The club's other team. After winning the Buml div2 season 2010, we were promoted to Div1 in season 1; and as appears symptomatic of div2 winners - really struggled for pace and solid skills. Season 2 saw the team leaders asking for div2 entry, and with seven rookies off we went. After scraping into the finals, we had a very special game against AO. Down 7-1, DH managed to get many turns and convert to make it 8-7 DH way, and take the win 10 - 8. Peter Truss, one of the rookies, came up with a massive layout D to stop an assist and with this, he won MVP. Chantelle Smith must have scored upward of 35 points over the season won the female MVP.
WonderWomen again won the WUFL, the second year on the trot, defeating the SuperTramps 15-6. Several new player in this team really lifted an enjoyed the challenge, even with some sporadically attending veterans.
I can't remember the MVP, but I would hazard a guess at Lauren Hutton - she had a stack of trophies.
Next Year, the Club plans to continue with all the current teams, including the Mixed Nationals teams - who should be aiming in improve on its 20th placing, BPL Heroes looking at a 2nd or 3rd place and WonderWomen to keep on trucking (winning the whole thing again). Buml however is where a club shakedown is rumoured to be. One idea has been to move all three current teams to divison2, creating space for a new division 1 powerhouse - whose name is strictly under wraps.
Comment with div1 team name guesses. 2012 is going to one hell of a year, so buckle up Heroes!
During the year, the Heroes competed at almost every level with good and pleasing results. We made our Mixed Nationals debut this year, coming up with a 20th place finish, including a nail biting rollercoster cross pool game against the Villains- hailing from Townsville - with an end score 14/13.
The Green Men continued to improve with a BPL finals birth, losing to eventual premiers - Slamtown - in the semi-final. Chris Brown also won the Heroes BPL MVP, albeit self-awarded (and undisputed when announced). I'm sure these guys will be pushing to go one better next year.
The club again played with three teams throughout 2011, Heroes, Agent Orange and Discheads.
Heroes played in Div 1 the whole year placing 5th in season 2. More on this team later.
Agent Orange was a division 2 powerhouse all year hardly losing a game outside finals, led by Gavin 'El presidente' Croft as well as danbot strelan and Bev. AO won its way all the way into the season 1 grand final, only to play within themselves and go down to The Ghost who walks - who then were promoted to Div 1 and struggled. AO strategy all along? In season 2, AO really turned up the heat and only lost one game. Unfortunately, it was the first week of finals against the sister team, Discheads, therefore placing them at 3rd. MVPs were Josh Weier and Lauren Hutton, great season guys!Discheads. The club's other team. After winning the Buml div2 season 2010, we were promoted to Div1 in season 1; and as appears symptomatic of div2 winners - really struggled for pace and solid skills. Season 2 saw the team leaders asking for div2 entry, and with seven rookies off we went. After scraping into the finals, we had a very special game against AO. Down 7-1, DH managed to get many turns and convert to make it 8-7 DH way, and take the win 10 - 8. Peter Truss, one of the rookies, came up with a massive layout D to stop an assist and with this, he won MVP. Chantelle Smith must have scored upward of 35 points over the season won the female MVP.
WonderWomen again won the WUFL, the second year on the trot, defeating the SuperTramps 15-6. Several new player in this team really lifted an enjoyed the challenge, even with some sporadically attending veterans.
I can't remember the MVP, but I would hazard a guess at Lauren Hutton - she had a stack of trophies.
Next Year, the Club plans to continue with all the current teams, including the Mixed Nationals teams - who should be aiming in improve on its 20th placing, BPL Heroes looking at a 2nd or 3rd place and WonderWomen to keep on trucking (winning the whole thing again). Buml however is where a club shakedown is rumoured to be. One idea has been to move all three current teams to divison2, creating space for a new division 1 powerhouse - whose name is strictly under wraps.
Comment with div1 team name guesses. 2012 is going to one hell of a year, so buckle up Heroes!
Friday, October 21, 2011
Dojo dominance going the way of the moon (waning) while Slamtown get a reprive
After a rain-out and a legitimate, spirited draw,
All I want to say is "If Slamtown are unfortunate enough to meet us in the final, those mothers are gonna pay".
End Post.
All I want to say is "If Slamtown are unfortunate enough to meet us in the final, those mothers are gonna pay".
End Post.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Heroes go all out on Bugs
Heroes V Buggers
The past few games between the two teams have made for some great action both on and off the field. In a relatively calm night (considering the windy day we had) aL Don was quoted to say
"Their game was easily the most interesting of all three in tonight's BPL"
Well if the Don says so it must be true.
In reality both teams played pretty well, but dare I say, Heroes looking the better on O seemingly scoring in fast paced attack and the Bugs having to work for every point. The two teams traded until 6 all when Heroes managed to get up and take a break of the buggers and very quickly take half at 8-6. At half time the circle was certainly a more relaxed one than compared to previous seasons and after half we managed to continue the fast paced O and break away on some sloppy offense from the men in white.
In a post match interview Jangles was interviewed and said,
"We showed some maturity tonight to really run away with the game at the end. Our offense was sweet and the defense was stronger but still need to be ramped up. We have really come a long way from the group of BUML player looking to break into the big leagues to a solid team that can roll anyone on the day"
And for you, who was the MVP tonight?
"Well the browntown pairing of Seb and Chris really shown through, but I think the better brown won it tonight"
"Also Myall played superbly on Stu and really shut him down early on in the game which really helped us get up"
Again Jangles went for the crappy circle of love cheer whilst the begrudging remaining players(cheerers) went with it and walked away muttering amongst themselves about how lame it is....
Also Rolo Lover will be pleased to hear the old boy played well and I think got more than one score in the endzone
So the final score Heroes 15 d Buggers 11
The past few games between the two teams have made for some great action both on and off the field. In a relatively calm night (considering the windy day we had) aL Don was quoted to say
"Their game was easily the most interesting of all three in tonight's BPL"
Well if the Don says so it must be true.
In reality both teams played pretty well, but dare I say, Heroes looking the better on O seemingly scoring in fast paced attack and the Bugs having to work for every point. The two teams traded until 6 all when Heroes managed to get up and take a break of the buggers and very quickly take half at 8-6. At half time the circle was certainly a more relaxed one than compared to previous seasons and after half we managed to continue the fast paced O and break away on some sloppy offense from the men in white.
In a post match interview Jangles was interviewed and said,
"We showed some maturity tonight to really run away with the game at the end. Our offense was sweet and the defense was stronger but still need to be ramped up. We have really come a long way from the group of BUML player looking to break into the big leagues to a solid team that can roll anyone on the day"
And for you, who was the MVP tonight?
"Well the browntown pairing of Seb and Chris really shown through, but I think the better brown won it tonight"
"Also Myall played superbly on Stu and really shut him down early on in the game which really helped us get up"
Again Jangles went for the crappy circle of love cheer whilst the begrudging remaining players(cheerers) went with it and walked away muttering amongst themselves about how lame it is....
Also Rolo Lover will be pleased to hear the old boy played well and I think got more than one score in the endzone
So the final score Heroes 15 d Buggers 11
Friday, May 27, 2011
Thanking the masses
Thanks to the small crowd that attended last nights do or die quarter final in the BPL between our own Heroes and the fresh Los Banditos. The game was a cracker with the Heroes starting very strong early and getting away to a convincing win to put a stop to the inform Banditos winning ways and subsequently their season.
The Banditos big guns started slow but in the mid section of the game came out and found their flight. In particular JJ, Gref and B-dub... It was a credit to see the improvement of this brand new team and everyone from the outside did not expect to see them on the winners sheet this season. Proving us all wrong the Banditos really stirred the pot of the BPL tipsters this season.
As far as the Heroes boys were concerned, we put together smooth and coherent passages of play and easily put scores on the board for the majority of the match. In particular stand out form was our adopted son Myall (formally of Kaboom and team happy :P ) easily MVP for the game. I think he assisted in something like 10 of our 15 points. Other usual suspects were Jangles hucking from the power position (which don't count as hucks apparently, Jangles words - not mine) and the ever likely brown-town points. Once more these Heroes of the HUC played as a team and were able to make a good positive start which ultimately set the game up for the win.
I think in the end it was a 15-7 win to the Heroes (someone correct me on that) and a great boost of confidence in the arm to finally put on a strong display over Dojo in the week to come.
The Banditos big guns started slow but in the mid section of the game came out and found their flight. In particular JJ, Gref and B-dub... It was a credit to see the improvement of this brand new team and everyone from the outside did not expect to see them on the winners sheet this season. Proving us all wrong the Banditos really stirred the pot of the BPL tipsters this season.
As far as the Heroes boys were concerned, we put together smooth and coherent passages of play and easily put scores on the board for the majority of the match. In particular stand out form was our adopted son Myall (formally of Kaboom and team happy :P ) easily MVP for the game. I think he assisted in something like 10 of our 15 points. Other usual suspects were Jangles hucking from the power position (which don't count as hucks apparently, Jangles words - not mine) and the ever likely brown-town points. Once more these Heroes of the HUC played as a team and were able to make a good positive start which ultimately set the game up for the win.
I think in the end it was a 15-7 win to the Heroes (someone correct me on that) and a great boost of confidence in the arm to finally put on a strong display over Dojo in the week to come.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
The Incredible HUC calls out all supporters
Tonight's game against the Los Banditos is a do or die game to progress to the finals.
So we just had a look at ourselves and we've realised some thing. We have the largest non-uni based club in Brisbane and what we need tonight is YOU and we need YOUR voice to help cheer on the boys to victory.
But you ask, What can I do?
WELL
Bring signs - be imaginative with them, like these people:
So we just had a look at ourselves and we've realised some thing. We have the largest non-uni based club in Brisbane and what we need tonight is YOU and we need YOUR voice to help cheer on the boys to victory.
But you ask, What can I do?
WELL
Bring signs - be imaginative with them, like these people:
(Hehe this last one is funny cause JJ plays for the Banditos for those playing along at home)
You could bring signs like:
:: I'd layout for Silent
:: Jangles smells
(I dunno I couldnt think of any, but YOU can!!!)
Time: 7.30pm
Place: BPL annerley fields
Who: YOUR HEROES
WHY: WE CAN MAKE THE FINALS
EDIT INSERT: All are welcome to bring along canned or bottled drinks, noting that the HUC does not condone public drinking but we sure do condone having a good time
EDIT INSERT: All are welcome to bring along canned or bottled drinks, noting that the HUC does not condone public drinking but we sure do condone having a good time
Cya all there
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Heroes play their first full match of ultimate ever
After 3 seasons, we finally have played a game where we can say we played well all night. The match started with Heroes on D, and a mistake from Cobra's near our end zone saw us take the first point. Defensive pressure saw another 2 turn overs and Heroes take the first 3 points. The fourth one was a bit longer, and I don't know who scored it, but we got out to 5-1 from some inspirational play from Bevan and lovely shots from S.G. Chris Brown got involved with some grabs in the end zone, and also some lovely flick hucks, one out of two coming off.
Sebastian didn't get any help with some throws his way being wayward, but he ended up with some nice grabs to finish off. Cobra's got angry with themselves but this only meant that Kailin & friends would demand the disc so that he could huck it to a 50/50 option. It turned out more like 80/20 I guess.
It can be said that Cobras did not play well and had a number of unforced errors. The pleasing thing is that we cannot recall any drops that we had that were uncontested and we managed to capitalise for a change. Confidence was high as we went to 8-2, taking the half convincingly.
Some desperate huck plays came off for Cobras, but it was neither enough to lift their team or to phase us. We won the second half 7-4, so that's 15-6 final score, the first time we have closed out a game before time cap.
We've beaten the Cobras 3 times now, and they have beaten us 3 times. We haven't beaten any other teams, but that's gonna change over the next 3 weeks!
Sebastian didn't get any help with some throws his way being wayward, but he ended up with some nice grabs to finish off. Cobra's got angry with themselves but this only meant that Kailin & friends would demand the disc so that he could huck it to a 50/50 option. It turned out more like 80/20 I guess.
It can be said that Cobras did not play well and had a number of unforced errors. The pleasing thing is that we cannot recall any drops that we had that were uncontested and we managed to capitalise for a change. Confidence was high as we went to 8-2, taking the half convincingly.
Some desperate huck plays came off for Cobras, but it was neither enough to lift their team or to phase us. We won the second half 7-4, so that's 15-6 final score, the first time we have closed out a game before time cap.
We've beaten the Cobras 3 times now, and they have beaten us 3 times. We haven't beaten any other teams, but that's gonna change over the next 3 weeks!
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Browntown Takes One In The End Zone!!
After scoring early, Heroes fell asleep on the sideline and on-field with some uninspiring play and sloppy marking, allowing Slamtown to huck to unexpected receivers. Heroes were down 4-1.
With a demand to improve on the basics (completions, aka throwing and catching) and a request for more sideline talk, the quality of play lifted. A few Jangles to Bevan plays came off and Adam D went on to have a blinder, beginning with some hard puppy pressure to force throw aways. Adam used his reach (he has height, but have you ever seen him jump) to swat the disc away from the outstretched hands of receivers. He hit every dump, but my favourite Adam play was when George made a great cut under on Horo and Adam came streaming and screaming through to collect the Dishy in power posistion and wind-up that big arm of his to huck to score (Morrell receiving? on the back line in the middle).
The positivity definitely lifted and the sideline talk kept everyone in the game. I remember getting caught out early on with players streaming down my wing and no sideline talk, but this changed in the second third. I think Slamtown took the half after long discussions saw a spirited Fox backing down to a solid argument Slamtown's best politician.
There were some exciting moments, when we got SFC to stall count 9 a number of times, but they got away with stuff like scoobers to Jody and the traditional Heroes-mac-on to Al. James Larkin was one player we failed to shut down. For the amount of D's we got and shots we had, our conversion rate was very low.
Sebastian worked really hard in the second half, but the real Brown-town belonged to neither Sebastian or Jody, but that of little brother, not-the-rapper Chris Brown. Chris Brown had 16 attempts to score in the end zone. Often perceived as cutting hard, handlers would float it out in front of Chris, only to see him time and again, labouring, stumbling and seeing the disc float out the back of the end zone. This lead to much taunting. To claims that we thought he was cutting, Big Brother Sebastian lamented "People often think that about Chris?" Jamie was of usual harshness: "Are you going to catch it this time, Chris?" Yes, it reminded this blogger of those who had come before him. Like Trevor, Watto and Tomsteve, the young Ceasar seemed cursed.
Finally, I think it was Bevan, pulled one out of the sky and Chris was found all alone in the middle of the end zone. Bevan put it in at about the height where all our hearts were, the throat, with Chris finally obliging and taking a sitter. The crowd went wild!!! (*insert tumbleweed)
In the end I think we went down 14-10, but I may be wrong.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Why Heroes Men Should See Some Finals Action This Season
With my new role over at the BUB, I've had little to post Heroes-centric sentiment on the interwebs. So here it is.
The punters are saying we're going to finish 4th (Stefan, Gref). This is despite winning 1 game in our last 2 seasons. With 9/12 of our boys training with Firestorm, it's fair to expect vast improvement this season. With 2 losses out of 2 on the board and Dojo looming, one could say that we haven't had the best start to the season.
However, Dojo, Bugs and Slamtown seem set to carry on their merry way to a Top 3 finish (probably in that order). So how are we to secure the fourth spot and get our first taste of finals action?
I would suggest that we have to win 4 games minimum. Heroes must beat the largely unknown Cobras in round 4 and again in round 9. The Cobras haven't proven anything yet, beating the new kids on the block 15-1, but bowing out in quick-time against the Dojo Mojo, 15-5 after being in a 5-5 headlock. Their performance in Round 3 against the Buggers will be worth keeping an eye on.
The other team to beat twice is Los Bandidos, who have shown improvement after their embarassing start, with a better scoreline of 9 - 15 against the Bugs. We come up against them for the first time after Nationals, which is a dangerous time, with Heroes having 10 players playing at Nationals. We face them again in the last round, and they will no doubt be well improved by this stage.
Is 4 wins enough? If we beat those teams twice, one of them will have to beat two top 3 teams to challenge. Beating one of the top 3 would mean big things for Heroes. I believe that with all players available and on our game, we are capable of beating anyone. How long will it take for us to gel?
This is, of course, a lot of speculation. But it's fun. For now, it's the old cliche of one week at a time. We've gotta be hungry for that first win in a long time. We have a chance to prove our depth next week when we come up against the Giants from Dojo.
The punters are saying we're going to finish 4th (Stefan, Gref). This is despite winning 1 game in our last 2 seasons. With 9/12 of our boys training with Firestorm, it's fair to expect vast improvement this season. With 2 losses out of 2 on the board and Dojo looming, one could say that we haven't had the best start to the season.
However, Dojo, Bugs and Slamtown seem set to carry on their merry way to a Top 3 finish (probably in that order). So how are we to secure the fourth spot and get our first taste of finals action?
I would suggest that we have to win 4 games minimum. Heroes must beat the largely unknown Cobras in round 4 and again in round 9. The Cobras haven't proven anything yet, beating the new kids on the block 15-1, but bowing out in quick-time against the Dojo Mojo, 15-5 after being in a 5-5 headlock. Their performance in Round 3 against the Buggers will be worth keeping an eye on.
The other team to beat twice is Los Bandidos, who have shown improvement after their embarassing start, with a better scoreline of 9 - 15 against the Bugs. We come up against them for the first time after Nationals, which is a dangerous time, with Heroes having 10 players playing at Nationals. We face them again in the last round, and they will no doubt be well improved by this stage.
Is 4 wins enough? If we beat those teams twice, one of them will have to beat two top 3 teams to challenge. Beating one of the top 3 would mean big things for Heroes. I believe that with all players available and on our game, we are capable of beating anyone. How long will it take for us to gel?
This is, of course, a lot of speculation. But it's fun. For now, it's the old cliche of one week at a time. We've gotta be hungry for that first win in a long time. We have a chance to prove our depth next week when we come up against the Giants from Dojo.
Slamtown
Thursdays game saw the Heroes take the line against the big shooting slamming flatballers from the coast.
After last weeks lack lustre performance, the green machine came out with a strong will to bring the intensity and when we got a turn over on the first point from a (insert) wayward stef throw, we capitalised and put in the end zone for 1-0. Then throughout the first half the game was relatively even with slamtown breaking us to take a 2 point lead at half. However the difference between the two teams was the initial pull on the point. I cant remember how many times we turned the disc over in our own half (and endzone) because of a great pull and chase, clamming us inside the endzone with our stack not realising it, and being to deep. With Adam out our handling line was a bit weaker and the gold coast zone worked well for the most part. BUT as soon as we broke that cup, I think slamtown will agree we walked all over them to score freely (for those 7 times.. ) But still and yes this sounds lame the score line didnt reflect how hard the game was played, with our game finishing last of the three and with one memorable 10min point. On a positive note defensively we didnt let the orange 'shooters' loose and kept the D fairly tight all evening. As soon as we stop shooting ourselves in the foot with dumb turnovers (myself included) Heroes will start putting wins on the board.
As ever this season theres no 'easy' games with most teams being able to turn up on their day and win. Next week is no different when Heroes vs the well lubricated machine that is Dojo Mojo.
Memorable moments for the game was Ye Old brown town connection being ever sweet as usual. OH AND... James getting skied by probably the shortest man in the league, Danny. Well done dan. In comparison its like thisguy in red beating this guy in blue (wait is that a Red Vs Blue reference!?!)
After last weeks lack lustre performance, the green machine came out with a strong will to bring the intensity and when we got a turn over on the first point from a (insert) wayward stef throw, we capitalised and put in the end zone for 1-0. Then throughout the first half the game was relatively even with slamtown breaking us to take a 2 point lead at half. However the difference between the two teams was the initial pull on the point. I cant remember how many times we turned the disc over in our own half (and endzone) because of a great pull and chase, clamming us inside the endzone with our stack not realising it, and being to deep. With Adam out our handling line was a bit weaker and the gold coast zone worked well for the most part. BUT as soon as we broke that cup, I think slamtown will agree we walked all over them to score freely (for those 7 times.. ) But still and yes this sounds lame the score line didnt reflect how hard the game was played, with our game finishing last of the three and with one memorable 10min point. On a positive note defensively we didnt let the orange 'shooters' loose and kept the D fairly tight all evening. As soon as we stop shooting ourselves in the foot with dumb turnovers (myself included) Heroes will start putting wins on the board.
As ever this season theres no 'easy' games with most teams being able to turn up on their day and win. Next week is no different when Heroes vs the well lubricated machine that is Dojo Mojo.
Memorable moments for the game was Ye Old brown town connection being ever sweet as usual. OH AND... James getting skied by probably the shortest man in the league, Danny. Well done dan. In comparison its like thisguy in red beating this guy in blue (wait is that a Red Vs Blue reference!?!)
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Legs Eleven in the BPL
With the raft of BPL teams coming out and announcing their not-so-secret line ups for the 2011 league, we here in the secret den thought we should get our act together and do the same.
This season the incredible HUC held a selection camp for interested parties to come and play BPL. It seems as though with only 5 teams in the league this time round, spots may have come harder than some had initially thought...
Without further adue the Heroes BPL team for this season is:
Adam 'Jangles' Beu
Matt 'Old' Boevink
Carl 'hurt himself' Behrendorff
Christopher 'Cez' Brown
sebastian 'ranga' brown
Adam 'aDs' Dowley
Christopher 'foxxy' Fox
Myall 'ride his bike everywhere' Hingee
James 'Panties' Morrell
Bevan 'Darryl' Rudolph
George 'Silent' Salisbury
Daniel 'the' Strelan
With a total of 9 players going to national’s and 10 (if you count the experience of Old Boevink) this seasons Heroes are not here to make up numbers anymore. With hard training over the break, Heroes have been tipped by some outsiders to ruffle some feathers of the other teams.
This season the incredible HUC held a selection camp for interested parties to come and play BPL. It seems as though with only 5 teams in the league this time round, spots may have come harder than some had initially thought...
Without further adue the Heroes BPL team for this season is:
Adam 'Jangles' Beu
Matt 'Old' Boevink
Carl 'hurt himself' Behrendorff
Christopher 'Cez' Brown
sebastian 'ranga' brown
Adam 'aDs' Dowley
Christopher 'foxxy' Fox
Myall 'ride his bike everywhere' Hingee
James 'Panties' Morrell
Bevan 'Darryl' Rudolph
George 'Silent' Salisbury
Daniel 'the' Strelan
With a total of 9 players going to national’s and 10 (if you count the experience of Old Boevink) this seasons Heroes are not here to make up numbers anymore. With hard training over the break, Heroes have been tipped by some outsiders to ruffle some feathers of the other teams.
Friday, October 8, 2010
Dojo gets the Mojo (just not the girls)
Last nights action saw the men in green stand on the line against the tall timber that are the Dojo outfit. Before the game Heroes were stricken with sickness, injury and late arrivals; Mikey did not pass his fitness test and MattB didnt even bother to bring his kit and Gav was tied up at work. The subsequent warm up, our in and away drill lacked luster and there wasnt a vibe about us before taking the line. Maybe due to the sever lack of game time lately...
Both teams put one score on the boards and then Dojo marched a the disc up score, and then broke us to take the score out to 3-1 early. We called a time out and I watched Danny take some meditating deep breaths. After the t/o we came away with the next 3 points including the above mentioned danny completing a great endzone layout to score. 4-3 Heroes. Then I believe Dojo used a t/o and gathered themselves. Again in the same fashion, they came out to take the half 8-4.
The game was played zone D by both teams all night. I felt that our puppy D was better with many turns being created with some dodgy swings etc compared to the Dojo 2-3-2. The heroes handlers seemed to get it through the front markers, but it was our decision making that let us down. Personally I counted at least 4 endzone throw aways made by me, that on another night would have come off, but not last night. MattB will have the stats on that later - not looking forward to reading those.
Dojo kept pressing away and in the end took it over a down trodden heroes team 15-7. As usual we were our own worst enemies on the night but well done to Dojo. One humorous fact we noted whilst on the line closer to the end of the game when matching up defense was the short line that dojo had on with Pallen, Steve and Fatty all off. Only to still have the average height over 6 ft, including dez and coops on their line haha.
Both teams put one score on the boards and then Dojo marched a the disc up score, and then broke us to take the score out to 3-1 early. We called a time out and I watched Danny take some meditating deep breaths. After the t/o we came away with the next 3 points including the above mentioned danny completing a great endzone layout to score. 4-3 Heroes. Then I believe Dojo used a t/o and gathered themselves. Again in the same fashion, they came out to take the half 8-4.
The game was played zone D by both teams all night. I felt that our puppy D was better with many turns being created with some dodgy swings etc compared to the Dojo 2-3-2. The heroes handlers seemed to get it through the front markers, but it was our decision making that let us down. Personally I counted at least 4 endzone throw aways made by me, that on another night would have come off, but not last night. MattB will have the stats on that later - not looking forward to reading those.
Dojo kept pressing away and in the end took it over a down trodden heroes team 15-7. As usual we were our own worst enemies on the night but well done to Dojo. One humorous fact we noted whilst on the line closer to the end of the game when matching up defense was the short line that dojo had on with Pallen, Steve and Fatty all off. Only to still have the average height over 6 ft, including dez and coops on their line haha.
Friday, September 24, 2010
UQ
As usual both teams took a few possessions to get going and the first point was a bit of a long one. I decided to put Jangles on a run to the endzone with a flick huck that decided to drifted right, into the creek beating up the lovely new UQ game disc (sorry about that Nat). So that wasn't a good start. Luckily for me, we were able to get the D and score the first point of the game. Lovers replied and the score was 1-1.
After that both teams played very evenly trading the next few points and playing a fair bit of manD. We responded and played offense as a horo, which resulted in many hucks being sent out from Jangles and myself, with the Strelans throwing some in as well! UQ then applied a cup zone which worked pretty well and closing our hucks down. But in the still conditions our handlers applied the theories that we practiced before the game and managed to get ourselves out, albeit at times a little messy. But to their credit UQ trapped the lines very well making it hard for us to swing the disc at times. At half all that separated the teams were 2(or 3?) cross field hammer assists from aL and a floaty hammer from Nat to score. We knew that hammers were not part of their game plan (their half time huddle break was no hammers!). I think we defended very well and the game came down to the long throws from both teams. There were very few passing up field to score plays actually, kinda odd, perhaps the two teams were enjoying the still conditions. Luckily we were able to match it with lovers in this department. Bevan and Jamie pulled down everything we threw at them, they played superbly. In particular both of them grab sweet layouts in the endzone which was great to watch.
UQ got away from us just after half but to our credit we scored 3 straight on them to pull the score back to 11-14.
Lovers scored the last point and that was that. 15-11 final score. Better than last time we played 15-6.
After that both teams played very evenly trading the next few points and playing a fair bit of manD. We responded and played offense as a horo, which resulted in many hucks being sent out from Jangles and myself, with the Strelans throwing some in as well! UQ then applied a cup zone which worked pretty well and closing our hucks down. But in the still conditions our handlers applied the theories that we practiced before the game and managed to get ourselves out, albeit at times a little messy. But to their credit UQ trapped the lines very well making it hard for us to swing the disc at times. At half all that separated the teams were 2(or 3?) cross field hammer assists from aL and a floaty hammer from Nat to score. We knew that hammers were not part of their game plan (their half time huddle break was no hammers!). I think we defended very well and the game came down to the long throws from both teams. There were very few passing up field to score plays actually, kinda odd, perhaps the two teams were enjoying the still conditions. Luckily we were able to match it with lovers in this department. Bevan and Jamie pulled down everything we threw at them, they played superbly. In particular both of them grab sweet layouts in the endzone which was great to watch.
UQ got away from us just after half but to our credit we scored 3 straight on them to pull the score back to 11-14.
Lovers scored the last point and that was that. 15-11 final score. Better than last time we played 15-6.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Cobras strike
Sorry for the lack of a BPL report this week, believe it or not Carls been busy haha. Well too busy to blog, but ive found some time now.
What can we say about last weeks match against those black adders? Heroes started strongly but failed to be decisive missing early chances to put on score board pressure. The teams traded points until 6 all when cobras got a brake and then capitalized on O to take the half 8-6.
After half all the good work to pressure cobras into long points fell away and the snakes slithered into the endzone on the back of some bad errors. This game was easily our worst for the season. I think the final score was 15-9? not sure.
Take aways from the game. For me, dont try to catch a pull around your ankles, you ll drop it. When you turn it over in mid field and you are on Wetnose, just get in front of him cause he ll be breaking long. We all knew it was gonna happen but being out of position from the turn over didnt help (also a lesson I learnt).
This game was disappointing and we let ourselves down. Enuf said.
What can we say about last weeks match against those black adders? Heroes started strongly but failed to be decisive missing early chances to put on score board pressure. The teams traded points until 6 all when cobras got a brake and then capitalized on O to take the half 8-6.
After half all the good work to pressure cobras into long points fell away and the snakes slithered into the endzone on the back of some bad errors. This game was easily our worst for the season. I think the final score was 15-9? not sure.
Take aways from the game. For me, dont try to catch a pull around your ankles, you ll drop it. When you turn it over in mid field and you are on Wetnose, just get in front of him cause he ll be breaking long. We all knew it was gonna happen but being out of position from the turn over didnt help (also a lesson I learnt).
This game was disappointing and we let ourselves down. Enuf said.
Friday, September 3, 2010
Slamtown ride a close wave
Heroes started the night on O and leapt away to a 1-0 lead with great, thought-out and clean offensive. The second point lasted a rather long time with Slamtown throwing the disc away on more than one occasion, Heroes however let them off the hook twice as well with albeit, close throw aways into the endzone. ST rallied and fought back to get on the board in the end to make the score 1-1. Heroes were all about intensity and certainly on D was where it showed up. Unfortunately our intensity also carried over into O where we just wanted to make the glory pass/assist. The two teams traded until 4-4.
The intensity that we lacked in previous weeks had begun to take its toll on the boys and somehow we let ST score the next 4 points. That really hurt. Slamtown took the half at 8-4.
The Heroes leadership group asked the team to lift over half time. What we saw was the whole team rise and we racked up some blocks on D. Then we saw MattB layout in the endzone! It was freckin sweet, and we got a little celebration out of him too.
The Heroes from last season would have shut down and see the game slip away after half to something like 15-6. What we did was win the half 5-4 and the game ended at 9-12 to Slamtown. The 3 point difference was probably not reflective of how close the game was in my opinion. And also was that the first time a Heroes game ended last on a Thursday night? Id probably bet it is.
Heroes are learning what it takes to win (again) in this league. We're getting a taste of the hard run we have to show and the commitment on D we need. More than that, we are enjoying the rise in our effort.
The intensity that we lacked in previous weeks had begun to take its toll on the boys and somehow we let ST score the next 4 points. That really hurt. Slamtown took the half at 8-4.
The Heroes leadership group asked the team to lift over half time. What we saw was the whole team rise and we racked up some blocks on D. Then we saw MattB layout in the endzone! It was freckin sweet, and we got a little celebration out of him too.
The Heroes from last season would have shut down and see the game slip away after half to something like 15-6. What we did was win the half 5-4 and the game ended at 9-12 to Slamtown. The 3 point difference was probably not reflective of how close the game was in my opinion. And also was that the first time a Heroes game ended last on a Thursday night? Id probably bet it is.
Heroes are learning what it takes to win (again) in this league. We're getting a taste of the hard run we have to show and the commitment on D we need. More than that, we are enjoying the rise in our effort.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Dojo Vs Heroes
On a pleasant enough night the second round of the BPL season saw a DojoMojo field a TEAM! Heroes was represented by almost the full roster which was very good to see. We welcomed Adam and Juan for their first games of the season (two rather nice finds over the break). Heroes took the line on O and was immediately faced with a zone. The first point was a 5 possession monster with both teams having chances to score. We showed true patience with the disc and eventually scored with a nice swing, pop, floaty up the line score from Gav to Bev. 1-0. Dojo took the disc on O and scored fairly quickly 1-1. If my memory serves correct Dojo broke to go 2-1, then we score 2-2.
The middle part of this game was very close but stupid errors from each side kept the other in it (if that makes sense). SteveC dropped I dunno how many grabs... esp. in the endzone. The shining light for Heroes was Bevan. Memorable moments was a great 50-50 contest in the endzone, the Disc got bunted up and it was floating away, but then Bev gathers himself and lays out to score a great bid. Bev definitely got the max 3 mvp points for the game.
I don't know what else to say about the match. We played a lot better than we did last week against UQ, but we are still making terrible errors in our own half which was disappointing. This second season appears to be a building season for us, if last was a 'experience taster'. This season is the time for us to build on the last and get ourselves up to the true BPL standard. I think we can play there for about 60-70% of the game at the moment. Our challenge is to take that to the full 100% and start to pull some wins out. Anyways that’s getting into the philosophy of our game so back to the point - the final score of this game was 8-15 to Dojo.
The middle part of this game was very close but stupid errors from each side kept the other in it (if that makes sense). SteveC dropped I dunno how many grabs... esp. in the endzone. The shining light for Heroes was Bevan. Memorable moments was a great 50-50 contest in the endzone, the Disc got bunted up and it was floating away, but then Bev gathers himself and lays out to score a great bid. Bev definitely got the max 3 mvp points for the game.
I don't know what else to say about the match. We played a lot better than we did last week against UQ, but we are still making terrible errors in our own half which was disappointing. This second season appears to be a building season for us, if last was a 'experience taster'. This season is the time for us to build on the last and get ourselves up to the true BPL standard. I think we can play there for about 60-70% of the game at the moment. Our challenge is to take that to the full 100% and start to pull some wins out. Anyways that’s getting into the philosophy of our game so back to the point - the final score of this game was 8-15 to Dojo.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Which new BPL Heroes will have the most impact ( + or - ) to the team?
Mikey Strelan (new) | 5 (20%) |
Brenton Mottershead (Ex Passion) | 2 (8%) |
Adam Dowley (Ex Ult.Evolution S.A.) | 6 (24%) |
Tom(Steve) Daley (Ex Passion) | 2 (8%) |
Matthew Boevink (QLD legend) | 3 (12%) |
Carl Behrendorff (Ex Cobras) | 7 (28%) |
Votes so far: 25
Poll closed
This is interesting. Carl voted to be the biggest impact with adam close 2nd. hmmm was it a positive or negative impact?
UQ roll up their roster & swing it around as a club
The first game of the new season starting with Heroes up against one of the popular favourites of the league - UQ lovers. With the collapse of passion and the rolled down into one team, UQ were keen to get out and put in a good first effort to justify this. They succeeded. UQ started in infactic fashion with 3/4 field huck to score the first point & quickly took the second also. They seemed open for busy straight away and probably wanted to shut us down asap. This was quickly answered by Carl with a first touch of the game backhand-huck to Chris Fox. This was the spark! and heroes lifted. We traded points for the then period of the game until 5-3. We played a manD most of the night and made UQ throw some 50-50 throws. We did get some D's on the back of this which was great to see. However as much work as you do on Defence is nothing if you cannot convert on Offense. Proably a moment to tump the first heroes score was on the back of a jangls huck to MattB which just cleared 2 lovers early jumps and saw a great saw run in. Also shouts out for Bevan and Mikey who took great scoring grabs with tough immediate contact to follow.
Post game review saw the Heroes reflect on poor option choices and critical understanding issues with knowing each other’s games (i.e. trusting each other). To our credit UQ took all three of their time outs. I read this as Heroes not letting UQ do exactly as they wanted. I guess we restricted their flow somewhat. But no one can be sure why they took all three T/O's but it was strange when you're comfortably up on the scoreboard.
The heroes faded at the end and allowed too many turn over’s in our half of the field. This allowed lovers their chance to capitalize on our errors and they did so almost every time. The score blew out to 15-6. But the signs were there for the men in green. Lovers said it well in the circle and described us at the bottom of the learning curve. But that learning curve is an exponential one & Heroes will see a lot of talent developing throughout the season.
Post game review saw the Heroes reflect on poor option choices and critical understanding issues with knowing each other’s games (i.e. trusting each other). To our credit UQ took all three of their time outs. I read this as Heroes not letting UQ do exactly as they wanted. I guess we restricted their flow somewhat. But no one can be sure why they took all three T/O's but it was strange when you're comfortably up on the scoreboard.
The heroes faded at the end and allowed too many turn over’s in our half of the field. This allowed lovers their chance to capitalize on our errors and they did so almost every time. The score blew out to 15-6. But the signs were there for the men in green. Lovers said it well in the circle and described us at the bottom of the learning curve. But that learning curve is an exponential one & Heroes will see a lot of talent developing throughout the season.
Friday, August 13, 2010
New poll question: explanations to + or - choice comment forum open
comment with reasons for or against the positive or negative impacts for your vote
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Wind Training
Tonight the new-look BPL mens team took on another new-look Cobras outfit.
Being a windy night, I copped a couple of throws in the face as the disc turned vertical in a gust on wind at the last moment.. this was before the game!
We had a warm-up game with Cobras agreeing to play 3 possessions at a time. We tried some 2-3-2, and O was frustrating in the gale force wind! The most pleasing thing is that the opposition also found it hard and would turn over the disc often.
Promising signs include Rick's work-ethic and great timing (a nice flick too to Matt in the end zone on Abra), and the way Matt injected himself into the game.
Carl made a war-speech about spirit. He was right. This season we have to play like we believe we are good enough to be there, and to fight out every point and back each other up. We need the fire!
Training will continue on Sunday at 3pm, Sylvan Rd for all. Matt will be running some skill drills.
Being a windy night, I copped a couple of throws in the face as the disc turned vertical in a gust on wind at the last moment.. this was before the game!
We had a warm-up game with Cobras agreeing to play 3 possessions at a time. We tried some 2-3-2, and O was frustrating in the gale force wind! The most pleasing thing is that the opposition also found it hard and would turn over the disc often.
Promising signs include Rick's work-ethic and great timing (a nice flick too to Matt in the end zone on Abra), and the way Matt injected himself into the game.
Carl made a war-speech about spirit. He was right. This season we have to play like we believe we are good enough to be there, and to fight out every point and back each other up. We need the fire!
Training will continue on Sunday at 3pm, Sylvan Rd for all. Matt will be running some skill drills.
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