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.

Heroes get hard force on Frisky Time

In the tradition of the post match summary of the game this post will be no different. Last night Heroes played the newly submitted Frisky Time in what looked to be a disastrous match for us with only 6 players with Brad, Megs, TomSteve and James MIA. Anyways so we played savage, and it didn't seem to matter with FT playing with lots of new faces (which was very encouraging to see).

Heroes took an early lead to be 2-0 playing zone defences. I thought we'd change it up and do a poaching man D. 2-1. Back to zone. Esp since Julz decided to turn up for FT. We simply out experienced the FT'ers to stretch the game out to (i'll say...) 8-1. We played good defence actually but I felt as though our offense just wasn't there. We found it easy to move the disc up the field and even easier to drop it either in the endzone or just close to it. But I think maybe a lack of subs and the occasional bad throw (from yours truly) lead to that.

Frisky Time seemed to get organized on O by using their long options well and scored 2 more times closer to the end taking the game to 9-3. A few crucial mistakes on D lead to those scores, simply not being behind the last man but having said that we did play a fairly good zone most of the night. We probably should have come out on Man D in the spirit of new players on the opposition but our savage line meant we didn't really have a choice. Final score 10-3. Notable performances:
Laura S on the mark with lots of hard force that lead to numerous blocks
Chloe ever present in the endzone with high above her head grabs
Carl with 4 intercepts [shameless self promotion ;) ]

Donning the masks again

Tonight’s match saw the Heroes Ultimate Club taking on the newly kitted Frisky Time, and boy where they frisky by all accounts.
Heroes took the first two points in emphatic fashion, I think it may have been 1 min per point. 2-0. Frisky managed to pull it back to a respectable 2-2 and both sides traded points to take the score to 3-3. The Friskys had some younger players and in a few years they look as though they’ll be ripping up the turf, but some skill errors and D blocks by Laura and Steph resulted in Heroes pulling out to a 5 or so point lead.
The Heroes certainly looked like we had gelled together nicely and comments in the post game circle of love reflected our commitment to honour good cuts, whether they be male or female. The key to all good mixed sides is to use both genders equally and not ignore players in good positions. We seemed to have good communication tonight and things worked superbly on O and D.
Just a quick note, our zone managed to perform well at the end, against Jules and Will who were both very experienced too.
Well done Heroes we took the game at 15-6 in the end I think. Good way to finish the game out strong and lock it in the bag. That should put us into 3rd spot at least!