BUML Rd:3 - Preview

Well its a Monday, and that means only one thing - its  BUML night baby!

Given the size of BUML these days, I'm only gonna do the Heroes Club teams - cause that's just how I roll.

Round 3:

Div2:
Heroes vs Disc-iples at Easts Rugby 3
Last Week:
Heroes - Won against Agents
Dis-iples - Lost by 11 against  Discheads

Heroes are going to dominate, well they should be aiming to at least. Disc-iples coming of a second round lose against Discheads - seems to suggest they might be either rusty or Discheads were less rusty. Heroes do have a committed team with a ton of subs - look for Brad to run all night, and Sean to throw bombs deep. Also Disc-iples handling line lacks depth - even for Div2 - Heroes should play a zone all night long. Only Question is: Puppy, Jap, Clam, Pommy or Slammer 2-3-2 ?

Heroes by many - 8

Agents vs Discheads at Gap SHS
Last Week:
Agents - Lost against Agents
Discheads - Won by 11 against Disc-iples

OHH Yeah! Intra Games are the best games of the season! I love them! You get a chance to burn your mates deep, and make fun of there force as well, all with a massive smile on your face and the best spirit in Brisbane Ultimate. Agents, although losing last week, were down Sandra Poon - a true power player to say the least. With the likes of her on the line the Discheads will have to be on their toes. Discheads appear to be gelling really well together - a trait that this team is famous for- and marching points on O all the way down the field for scores and getting Ds as well.

Keys for Dischead success: conversion rates, both on O and D.
For Agents: Using rookie boys - who are impressing all those that see them play - Chris Arther and Toby Alexander nice work guys.

Discheads by 3.

Div1:
Lanterns vs PUD at Gap SHS
Last Week:
Lanterns - Lost against Lovers
PUD - Lost against Dyspnoeics

This should be a close game. Luckily Lanterns have got these guys early, cause once they gel together properly - they have players that can push any team in the league. Lanterns have played more as a team but still experiencing some flow problems - frustrating I can report.

Lanterns: Need to slow the game down and keep our heads and our cool. Hit the shots we know we can hit, and don't push the trigger on the ones we can't. We also need to ramp up the D, and shut the play makers out - tough, tight marks.

PUD: Force the Lanterns to -frankly- freak/stress out.

Lanterns by 5.

BUML Round 2 - Discheads vs Disciples

Following the rained out first week of BUML, the new look Discheads looked to shake out the cobwebs vs the Disciples. Arriving at the new ultimate fields located at East Rugby Union club the game got off to a late start, allowing Coops and Foxy to kick off the late running Touch footy players.

The discheads got off to a cracking start going into the half time break with a 9-0 lead. There were a number of great moments during the first half, the return of Chris Fox saw 4-5 interceptions within one point, and great hard running from new recruits Steve & Simone. The addition of Brisbane hat MVP Sam, all the way from the UK via the sunshine coast, saw some great handling and disc movement up the field.

Helena in her sophomore year & always dedicated Electra really showed their developing skills by making great decisions and holding onto the disc , then making high value passes with all their possessions.

In a side where Dave Warren was the tallest player, the discheads managed to move the disc up the field faster than the Disciples and managed to end the Game 13-2.

The discheads will be hoping to step up a gear or two next week, as they taken on sister club the Agents, concentrating on reducing handling errors and taking advantage of good field position.

Until next time... 3...2...1... Diiiiissssc Heads

Team Announcements: BUML and BPL

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

BUML teams

Get Excited! Buml is nearly here again. (games start on 5th March, but learn to play/pickup on 20th and 27th)

The club would like to announce that we’re adding another team! Yes, we have 4 teams now, and look out they look damn good. We are in the final stages of organising the team, and I've got to say, we're gonna shake some trees... rattle a few cages ... and quite possibly crunch a couple chump teams.

Just to add some actual substance to this post, the club will be entering a brand new div1 team, alongside the 3 other existing teams. All of the teams look like they could do really well in their respective divisions, and all could be captained by veteran players and although first time captains - I know that they have it in them to be phenomenal captains (you know how you are! I'd really like to encourage you to give it a go - we've put a couple people in each team to help you!)

All in all, Heroes is gonna rip it up at Buml this season.

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Heroes Buml Sign On Rehashed!

Hey guys,

Buml is drawing closer every day, so without any further adieu here are the details:
Where: Good News Lutheran School oval, enter from Beanland St, Middle Park (see map below)
When: This Sunday 12th Feb, 3 - 5 pm
What: SignOn and 2 hours of frisbee fun, including throwing competitions (longest huck, accuracy etc) and a bbq

Cost: a gold coin donation for the bbq
Why: to organise the buml teams and kick the club year off!

Super Fun Sign On Day

If your wondering to yourself, what on earth are the Heroes doing about BUML this season? wonder no longer.
To organise the teams for BUML we're holding a Sign On Day! You can nominate a couple people you would like to play with, and the level you'd like to play at as well.

When: Next Sunday 29/1/2012, 2-5pm
What: Sign On, Fun Games, Pickup, BBQ .... and beers too!
Cost: Gold donation for the bbq.
Where:Kenmore AFL Grounds

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.

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!

Mid Season Mixed Mix

Heroes behold, once every thousand years or so all three of our mixed teams play at the same field on a Monday night. This moment is almost upon us! The Gap SHS beckons us with a suggestive invitation.... What a glorious evening it will be: hard running, hard cheering, hard high fives and bum slaps!! What a beautiful stroke of fate that Croft Manor is located two minutes drive away, and happens to be overflowing at present with delicious beer!

Fate, delicious...

All members of the Heroes club are invited to have a warm down drink post games this Monday. Stay for 20 mins, stay for 2 hours, it's not at all out of your way (unless you live up Mt. Nebo). Heroes playing on other teams at other fields are of course welcome to come too. Spectators, club friends and partners are welcome (especially if they are the DD - am I right!). Having work the next day is not an excuse. If there's a rain out the party will start sooner.

Extra beer will be made available for the Discheads who will be drowning their sorrows after their humiliating defeat at the hands of AO. I hope to get you so drunk as to erase all memory of the total annihilation that you will have faced that evening. It's my way of saying sorry.

AO vs Tsunami Match Report

Well given that Nationals is done and dusted it seems that there is a bit more time to grab a hold of. That means more blogging. No doubt there will be numerous posts regarding Nats on the various blog sites we link to, and hopefully one or two on the HUC site, but for now I offer you a brief match report from our Div 2 BUML game.

Now as is the case with the other two Heroes BUML teams we had a number of players backing up from Nats and surprisingly none were tired/slow but rather excited to have another game, including myself with a badly strained knee that restricted me to 50% pace and an awkwardly painful limp. We were however missing Bev and Em to illness and Sam (with good results in his school's cross country today) to study. Recognising only a handful of faces in Tsunami I was not expecting the level of play that they brought. Every player on their team seemed very confident with the disc which was wonderful to see given they are a majority of beginners. Because of this they started strong and it took a while for us to get right in the game. Eventually we were hitting our strides as a team using both unders and longs effectively. Dstrel played an excellent game with dynamic handling and front of stack movement. Vanessa beat her girl every time providing easy options for the handlers, and ate up every disc - high, low, whatever. Emily S scored a brilliant goal (her first I think). Alex looked comfortable with his field presence and was getting the disc often because of this. He was also putting the force on the right side every time without having to stop and think about it! At half time we set a goal of not letting our man get free when on D and as a team we achieved this, which was my personal highlight of the game. Because we played at UQ it was a disappointingly shorter game, with the final result 11-7 to Tsunami.

One thing the shorter game did bring about was the desire for more Disc. Almost unanimously the team cried out in our post game debrief for Sunday training.

"Baby in the summer time, thats where I'll be"

With the shut down of league ultimate over the Christmas holidays many people are taking time off (yes yes FS & BB are training hard over the summer). But many people will know that possible changes are being suggested in realtion to the BUML.

Maybe this poll holds some sway? Its not up to us and of course we love the orgnaisers for putting the Monday night league on. But just some food for thought

Future format for 2011 BUML

There has been speculation and whispers in various frisbee circles about the format of BUML for 2011. The major change to which I would like to discuss is the combining of all three divisions in one timeslot. I would like to share my opinion on this matter and then open the floor to anyone else wishing to constructively talk about this.

Obviously there are pro's and cons to any league format, but I think this would be a bad move for BUML and would be of detriment to the Heroes club plans. Recently, the Heroes Div 2 teams have been gradually progressing through the ranks, climaxing this week in Discheads' triumph in winning the Div 2 final. This season we also entered a Div 1 team which had a season of learning what it takes to play top division mixed ultimate.

As we have previously discussed, Heroes plans to be at Mixed Nationals next year, which will mean training as a team, and taking advantage of every opportunity to play together at a high level before them. One of the ways which we planned to do this was to enter our nationals team in the Div 1 competition and play together every week. However, if everything went to one timeslot, people would have to leave behind their Div 2 teams (which are just starting to become more enjoyable) to play in a new team starting from scratch.

I don't know about you, but to me that sounds terrible. Another con for this merge is the fact that elite players who currently help out new teams (which is incredibly valuable as it gives new players a chance to see what to aspire towards) would have to choose to either charitably help out new teams, or play the top level mixed competition to challenge themselves and play at their potential. Creating this divide lowers the standard of both divisions.


These are my thoughts. Would love to hear the counter arguments.

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Growth of the Heroes Club in 2008 - 2010

JdR's got some interesting numbers and graphs over on the Brisbane Ultimate Blog but today we thought it might be nice to crunch some numbers, make some graphs and analyse the infection of the Heroes virus in Brisbane Ultimate.

The mission statement of the Incorporated Heroes Ultimate Club (or iHUC as I will soon regret coming up with) is "To play, promote and develop fun, skilled and spirited Ultimate". Up until 2010 this grass-roots movement has solely been seen in Div 2 BUML. This year, however, has seen the Heroes club field 5 teams in Div 2 BUML (across the 2 seasons), a Div 1 team, a premiership winning WUFL team and a BPL team in each season. On top of this we have entered a team into Halibut, Brisbane Indoor Championships, Mixed Nats Qualifiers and 2 teams in Lovefest. In a couple years we might come back and analyse these other leagues and tournaments but today lets focus on BUML.

Season	Heroes players	Total players	Percentage of Heroes players
2008/1	13	123	10.57
2008/2	15	159	9.43
2008/3	12	138	8.70
2009/1	12	101	11.88
2009/2	23	106	21.70
2010/1	27	128	21.09

This first chart above shows the massive growth of Heroes in BUML Div 2 in the past 2 years. Do you think this is a story that may have influenced the growth of Frisbee in Brisbane as seen on JdR's charts?

Our second chart here shows the percentage of Heroes players against the total number of players in Div 2 BUML. So far it has peaked at 21.70%, which means that just over 1 in every 5 players play for a Heroes team.

What will happen if this percentage continues to increase? A higher chance of trophies in the cabinet? A Heroes league? To be honest I don't think it would be healthy for this number to increase much higher. Realistically Heroes are just set to improve and work our way up through the other competitions. With Heroes vs Discheads in the upcoming semi final we are guaranteed to have a team in this season's grand final. If we can secure WUFL and Div 2 BUML perhaps next season we can really focus on making our mark in Div 1 and BPL.

Give us your thoughts, be brutally honest. Or perhaps just give congratulations once more to Dan on his AFDA recruiter of the year award.

EDIT: Here's one more graph, apparently some people are confused comparing Heroes numbers vs the Total numbers, so I've done a pie chart to represent Heroes vs Others

In this second form of graph you add the percentage of Heroes players to the percentage of Other players and you get the total. This is different to the first form of graph, because if you added the two values together you would get significantly more than 100%. If you wanted to, you could subtract the Heroes players from the Total players to give you the Other players. It's apples and oranges really.

PS: What's your favourite type of chart? And your favourite type of pie?

Finals review

Tonight's finals series starts in the BUML and we thought we should take a moment to see who's playing who and who's going to win.

Lets start with pool B in D2

A/O Vs Griffith Go Gos

This has to be an easy tip. The orange have put some good performances in of late and the GoGo's have been improving a lot with the guidance of some experienced players, but this time I think A/O will be too much.

Frisky Time Vs MYellow

Well this is a interesting match. MY hasn't beaten the Frisky Time yet this season. In their last game they fell agonizingly short losing by 1. My tip this finals series? Well it depends on which FT turns up. FT to win (assuming their star pickups show)

Pool A
Heroes Vs Ghost Who Walks
Well I think this will be the game of the round. Yes I know we're biased here @ HUC but let me explain.
1. Ive got insider news on the Poachers Vs Dyspneoics game
2. Im gonna tip Discheads to get up easy
3. Heroes only won by 2 in a come from behind game last time.
4. We have got some injuries clouds and work related planned no shows
Im gonna tip with my heart for a Heroes win, but certainly open the comment trail for some smack on this one.

Discheads Vs Baby Chimis
Discheads to win. Always when aL is playing a tipper must account for the aL factor but it seems this year the babies just haven't been able to pull it over the line, with losing games going down by 1 or 2 and the wins by only a slim margin also. Fattys finger wont help the babies cause either. Plus most of the girls from DHs have come off the Wonderwomen WUFL grand final win. Tipping for a 5+ win.


Poachers Vs Dyspneoics
Inside sources suggest a possible gift will be presented to Dyspneoics. Apparently too many med students DanB??

And for the D1 game

Superheroes Vs UQ

Well SH just havent got it in d1 yet but the game depends on whether UQ can hold their emotions together throughout the game. Sorry readers but this tip has to go to the pink UQers

AO Play Less Risky vs Frisky

Brief match report from Monday nights game:

Although there were 7 Agents at Annerley for start time (the 6.45 kickoff is hard for many to make) we began play with only 6 on the field as Adilia conducted her official whistle blowing duties. Frisky played 5/2 m/f at the beginning as that's all they had and we mixed it up a bit once Cola arrived from the GC playing 4/3 and 5/2 as people needed the sub.

The early stages of this game were tight. 9 consecutive points took place with both teams trading 1 for 1. Not happy to just trade points to the end, the Agents found some Orange Power and kicked things up a notch. The middle to end periods of the game saw us keep good control of the disc, execute some effective long throws and run tight tight tight D. My highlight was seeing (I think it was) Vanessa use the dump swing (which scored) where traditionally we would have rushed it down the sideline to our demise. As a team we finally seem to be a bit more patient with the disc, which I couldn't be happier about. Shout outs to both Robyn and Alana who continuously got free of their man (in the unisex sense of the word) particularly when making long cuts. From memory both were rewarded with goals for their efforts. Frisky Time played well too and (even when we were scoring point after point) remained calm and confident in their abilities, the result of which was some beautiful Ultimate. Final score 13-5.

The thing for AO to work on for the final series will be generating the flow of hard under cuts by knowing whose turn it is to cut and clearing out faster when you don't receive it. We are hitting our stride at the business end of the season, and will be looking to take out the pool b flag if this form continues.

AO vs GoGos

Most of the Agents were super keen to play tonight after a month or so off. Some of us however forgot how to show up on time. I lead the charge of this tardiness, arriving 5 mins late because I decided to do one more job instead of knocking off early. With me was pick up Josh (founder of Discheads) keen to test his legs again after months healing from an operation. Starky caught a slow bus. Robyn caught the wrong bus. Luckily/unluckily GoGos seemed less organised than us with AO putting 7 on the line first, 5 mins after start time.

With the game eventually underway, AO looked rusty but relaxed. After a couple points GoGos picked up Nat and Tati and so we had a real game on our hands. The GoGos beginners were looking much better this week compared to last time we played them too, particularly after the super pick ups came on. This encouraged us to lift our game. In true AO style almost all of our turn overs were from rushed hucks, but to our credit quite a few of these stuck. Despite his short throwing game somewhat lacking, Dave's long throwing game was on fire tonight providing my personal highlight of the match when Alana took a score by jumping what seemed like 2 meters in the air. Cola preemptively celebrated his birthday (tomorrow) by giving us numerous faultless long throws too. This long game coupled with countless high flying ariel D's, saw us take the game: final score 14-6. The only dissapointing thing about the GoGos tonight was their inability to convert the last point after Matt Boevink's dying-seconds-of-the-game layout D forced the turnover just before 'last possession' was called putting them on O. They came close but no cigar.

And the Lord said "Let there be sun for three days straight" and there was Frisbee.

What a terrible last month this has been for Frisbee in South East Queensland. Following Queensland's wettest September on record October has continued the trend of raining out events and causing general depression throughout the population.

First we go back to September 21 where Heroes and Discheads were originally meant to have their showdown for second place which started the tradition of beers and burgers at Archive. Then we experienced rain just about every weekend, making it near impossible to get out on the bike or have a throw. Then we have the cancellation of the South Bank to Southport 100km bike ride which was immediately followed by the second cancellation of Heroes vs DiscHeads, which led to the second episode of beers and burgers at Archive. This night even saw the likes of JdR, and he liked it so much he even mentioned Carl on BUB the next day.

This lack of play caused Heroes to have a down right shocker against Slamtown Flatball Club on Thursday night and the slippery weather contributed to a controversial incident involving an SFC player, a Heroes player, a grand stand and a visible shin bone.

And then there was sunshine (and a shit load of wind), and the sunshine persisted. For it is written that tonight is the night that Heroes take the win over Discheads once and for all. Believe it? Or do you have to be there to see it. I know I will be. Get your tips in for an all-time BUML first on the BUB site.

EDIT: Discheads have a bye tonight. Don't I look like a fool?

On a side note Heroes had our first ever AGM on Saturday - I'm sure more details will be released in another blog post.

BUML Polls are fun

Discheads Chimi Changas

Monday night saw Discheads against Baby Chimis. The old mantra of "FIRST SEVEN TO THE LINE!!!" was lost on the Baby Chimis who started the game with only 6 members. Their other members came in dribs and drabs and we utilised the player advantage to go up 3-0. Against a team like baby chimis, who have the likes of aL and usually Fatty (who was absent tonight), becoming complacent and content with a certain score can see you falling behind again within a few minutes. After Chimis put on a couple of quick points we burst through the bubble of complacency and pulled away to a handy lead which we didn't give up for the remainder of the match.

Shining lights for us, that paved the way through the somewhat dimly lit field 5 were Chris B and the girls. I say "the girls" not because they were only good as a whole but because each one of them had an outstanding game. I'll mention Lisa first who scored at least 2 points. I say at least because I know that I (shameless self-promotion a la Carl) threw her 2 scoring points, she may have even scored more as I wasn't paying attention >< Bri also scored a few points and Jo also scored atleast one by running onto a flat forehand throw at top speed. Also Jo, after this point I went off for a drink and I overheard the girl marking you say... "she is just so fast, the girls on this team are SOOO good!" (no word of a lie). It would be wrong of me to say all the girls and not mention Katies impact on the game. She worked tirelessly in attack and defense and what was most pleasing for me was that Katie made really good decisions when she had the disc in hand. Back to Chris, well done you finally laid out for a score, nothing more to say bout your game. (jk u wer v good).

Well done Discheads, another win with final score of 12 - 10. Bring on Heroes next week!!!

AO VS MY

One of the perks of playing in the b pool of BUML div 2 is getting to play against such enjoyable teams as Mellow Yellow. Monday night proved no exception to the oft spoken truth of MY's good spirit.

AO was missing Steph (Europe) and Cam (gone AWOL?), with James playing at 50% having an end of season cold. Relatively recent additions Robyn and Cola have slotted into the team quite well however and have helped provide some handling confidence as well as up field flair. The other usual suspects (read some older AO match reports if you don't know who they are) brought their A game too, and instead of having one or two moments of individual brilliance like we normally do, we had moment after moment of fluid play.

The early stages of the game saw us trade points pretty evenly until MY called a time out after we scored two in a row. We knew they'd be coming hard at us after this so we lifted our game too and scored the majority of points in this middle section of play. They proceeded to get a few back and we traded a couple more points to close out the game at a tight 10-8. Although it was inconsequential to the result, one shining moment of 'glory' came after last possession was called by Adilia (doing her BUML duties) - MY pull the disc, AO are talking up the safe play options to keep control and score as they are running to position, and James (probably thinking about how safe he's going to play it) in receiving said pulled disc drops it cold. Some laugh. Some groan. All consequently shake hands.

And after the dissapointment of an unfitting end had faded, what we were left with was the memory of fun, hard fought ultimate. MY's new players had improved heaps since our last match up. For me though, it was most pleasing to see AO finally gelling as a team, reading each other well and playing disc with some wonderfully seamless flow. The challenge now is to string wins together and get on top of this b pool!

BUML mid season review_#3

Poachers

Poachers have given the Heroes the best run of matches thus far. With 3 outings against them resulting in 1 win each and a 9 all draw, no one knows what will result next time round. The poachers had recruited well over the off season and with the likes of Kalin and  Dan added to the experience of  "Always gets hurt" Theo
and Dan Blacklock (pictured). At this midpoint of the season poachers are in with a real shot at the title, with a couple other teams. They need to hold form, especially with 3 draws, as soon at those close games go their way, Poachers could get a roll on.

Bermuda Triangle

The old Bermuda Triangle lead by 'the old' Geoff Spurling has had an up and down season with 4 wins, 4 loses, and 2 draws. But what do people know about this team? Really not much is known, except other teams constantly get lost in their zone. It’s this un-phantomable predicament. You know you're about to sail straight into it, but you still get lost. All you need to beat this team is compass like this. But getting your hands on it isn’t that easy. It seems as though 6 other teams got lost in the mist of the Bermuda zone, can you make it through to the 'other endzone', no I mean side, agrh Im lost...

Kelvin Grove Cougars

 This team is a previous league champion but with the likes of their best player Mike Nield gone for this season, who was there to step up and take control. Well they've still got Tim Johnson and Gemma Sheridan marshalling the cougars around the field, so they cant be going to badly. I haven’t as yet played this team but from their previous results, the table standings and the average AFDA #, what I would suggest of this team is that they’re blooding some new talent. So with 4 wins and 6 loses, that’s pretty good I think. Rumour still has it that the cougars get extra practice in at recess at KG high school. Maybe some enforced after noon detention and we'll see this side back to their old form from winning the league.

Griffith Go Go's

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 Its a fact I’ve saved the incredible HUCs favourite team until last. The HUC loves what this team/club has done for ultimate in Brisbane since the start of the year. Unfortunately this success has not as yet carried over to the BUML D2 league as yet. But their fighting spirit has. I recall last season a drawn game between Heroes and the GoGos. Instead of registering a draw, they wanted to play one last point to go for the win. They pulled Heroes the disc and put us on O. We scored, but seeing this offer of spirit and the willingness to lay down the points earned for a draw, for a win was great. Seeing them get the first BUML was great this season.


Well with all teams reviewed in this BUML league and with the poll running its' course currently, The incredible HUC has been enlighten. Stay tuned to buml.com and get into the funest league going.