OnThePitch going after a superstar in the making

As the season draws to a end it is timely to talk more with players of the club. And who was more likely than this guy... Bevan kindley sat down and answered some of our questions.

 
Right Bevan, whats drawn you to play ultimate? You're abilities seem to be endless, you could play anything?
Honestly, I would be playing aussie rules if I could, but ultimate allows me to play without training several times a week. This said, ultimate is very athletic, and I love running and jumping all over the place. Lastly, I love getting to play with all my mates and have a laugh whether I'm winning or losing.

Yea I guess having a laugh is the most important thing...  Tell me a bit more about yourself?

Currently doing my cert III in Horticulture at TAFE, enjoying that. I also enjoy cycling but have a flat tire so I have had to give that up.

As we turned the halfway mark of the BPL season, can you provide an insight for the readers to the BPL team that is Heroes?

I think we are beginning to play to each others strengths a bit more, working better as a team. We have the drive to become a great team, and if the boys continue with the attitude we have now, it will happen.

How has your own form been? I notice you've collected enough nominations for the BPL MVP award...

Enough? ENOUGH?? When someone has had/got enough of something that usually means they wouldn't like or do not need any more. As I would be happy to acquire more, I will disagree with you saying that I have enough. That said, I encourage/challenge any of you Heroes to take points from the rest of the season. It can only benefit us as a team if we are all trying to step up. I have been happy with the way I have played in several games this season, but I still have plenty of room for improvement. I want to play well consistently, I want to increase my decision making and positioning on the field, and I want to lay out more.

What has surprised you/not surprised you this season compared to last?

I can't think of anything that has really surprised me. It's interesting to see the changes in teams after a few player swaps, looks like a pretty close season so far. I would like to be surprised by the boys this Thursday night with a points grabbing performance!
Ok, lets move this back to a Monday night. You seem to be the on field leader of the discheads, while spaz and jo take the official responsibilities? are you ok with that? is that something you would like to change in the future?
I'm ok continuing things the way they are. I love playing for the Discheads, and enjoy trying to help us play better. I guess because I have played for longer, I feel like I can help us keep improving, but mainly the fact that the team listens to me and is willing to learn is the reason I want to help out. We are a great team, and we have lots of fun playing together.
Will we ever see a return to this?

There is always a chance when the weather gets a bit cooler each year that I may avoid the clipper a bit longer. I don't think it will get that big again without encouragement though.

What is the secret to your super human talents?

I don't have any super human talents. Although I do eat at least one can of cold baked beans a week, and love a tall glass of cold (full cream) milk, this has got to help. I have heard rumours of a Tom Rudolph possessing such talents.

Ha there you have it, if you want to know what its like to be Bevan, just eat a can of cold baked beans!! Righto, What is your favorite number?

Most people would assume it's 33. I was going to ask for number 5 when ordering my heroes jersey, but then was queried as to why I wasn't getting 33. I'm going to say my favourite is 33, but number 5 is also superb.

Who on the Heroes BPL team would you turn gay for?

Anyone if they win a game for us.

Ok last question...
Angus and Julia Stone OR Ultimate?

Ultimate.

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.

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.

Content to Lose

"The second half was 7-6 (Passion). During the first half, we looked as if we were going through the motions, expecting to lose and content to lose" - Matt Boevink (rough quotation)

I hope I'm not the only one with insomnia on a Thursday night. The lineup tonight looked a little shakey, with no Myall, Paul or Dusty, Jangles threatening to stay home and Your Humble Narrator suffering from the flu. That said, I think I played fuckin' awesome tonight, kicking it off with some hussle in the midfield and a lovely outside in just over Gref's extended fingers to Gav in the endzone. Gav's game was also rather excellent tonight, being in beautiful position a number of times, showing a lot of speed in the midfield and combining with Bev and myself to run on for some lovely long play.

Heroes took the first point, but it Passion took the next 3 of the next 4. They got up to 5-2 and took the half at 8-4, due to some great overhead grabs from Alex and some strong D from Dan, also due to some crappy options from the Heroes. After half-time, we decided to play some Zone / Transition, which worked a charm. When we play hard defence, we can really fire up for O. We were hard with our force and marked the dump well. Passion were playing savage, so some of their players looked tired, and we could exploit this with some great deliveries to well timed cuts. George was relentless in defence, with some amazing layout D's, showing why he plays Firestorm D. Bev's presence in the endzone seems essential, especially with Myall absent. This switch made a lot of sense, and these things should be considered.

To close, we got it back to 10-8 but lost 10-15. If we played like we did in the second half all game we would have won for sure.