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.

Discheads decisive victory!

Discheads leapt to great heights last night to scrape by with a win in a traditionally hard fought contest against Griffith Go Go's. At the start of the game Griffith were down a few players due to the new earlier start times and Discheads had assembled early but were playing savage because a few of our members are still away overseas. In what was an almost identical line up to last week, we took the field running and went straight to a 4-0 lead. Griffith Go Go's scored intermittent points throughout the match to have the final result as 11-3 to Discheads. Discheads had fairly good composure and showed a high level of frisbee skills to take the game relatively comfortably.

To the credit of GGG they played hard all night, not letting us get any free points. They seem to be improving week in, week out and I can see them being a real threat in the not too distant future.

Special mention to Chantelle and Matt who worked tirelessly in the midfield and took some really impressive grabs.

At the end of the night frisbee was indeed the winner! (sorry for all the cliches in this post, they were a special request from my fellow team members :))

Got away with this one

From what the Heroes thought and read about the new Go Go's (plus the inside mole that we planted)  we thought last nights match was going to be a bit of a walk over. We were in actual fact surprised to go down 1-0 immediately with what was probably lazy D but def organized O from the GoGo's. Heroes were a bit slow and playing lazy ultimate (even though we got in early and did some good dump swing score drills).  We clawed through some longer points to bring the score to 3-3. Those points were so scrappy Im not even going to mention them.

Finally some composure on the disc saw the heroes pull out to 5-3 where we traded points once more to take the game to 8-5. Then the most incredibly silly error where Tomsteve decided to drop the pull in the end zone brought about a well organized straight stack which immediately broke the mark to score. 8-6.  
Griffith successfully broke their markers and pulled off a nice flow of play, bringing the disc close to their end zone and 8-7. 
Time cap was called...
What resulted was a GoGo score in the end zone after a simple drop turn over at the back from Heroes. It was all to easy for the GoGo's to score. Given the fast speed of the equalizing score, and the fact that Griffith are still to post their first win, they decided that they wanted to continuing playing for the game. They showed incredible spirit to allow this to happen, given they could have taken the draw and first points. Heroes took the last point with a huck from Carl to Dave with relative ease to win 9-8.

From the Heroes secret hideout, Griffith GoGo's are definitely a team to keep an eye on. JDR has coached them fairly well and I would say their improvement is very similar to that of our own BUML side when we just started. Heroes could learn a lot from their play and their organized stacks and we had a great time. 3 cheers to the GoGo's and thanks for a top rated match.

One last thing, have the GoGo's officially taken the nicest team in the league spot away from the Heroes???