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!

Prophetic Bananas

Recovering from man flu and still suffering from a swollen ankle, I found myself watching tonight's game vs Mellow Yellow instead of playing. I devoured 2 bananas from the sideline in a hopeful prophetic display of our dominance over yellow.

AO got off to a poor start: 3-8
Then brought it back: 9-11
Mellow finished strongly to win: 11-13

AO Man of match: Dave (ran a lot! including a sprint for a point saving D. plus his regular aerial displays.)

Starky mentioned that perhaps if my bananas had been prophetic, I should be expecting a stomach ache later this evening.

High hopes for a new season

It seems like it's been far too long, too long since I've played frisbee, too long since I've posted (have I ever actually posted or just trolled the comments?). Anyway, here's tonights wrap

Div 2

Heroes tonight initiated the season with two great games in both div 1 and div 2 of BUML. First up we faced Mellow Yellow, who were a bit late to turn up and have said good bye (temporarily?) to John and his wife, and have a couple of new recruits, but we knew we would have a tough, fun, well spirited game ahead.

The game started out evenly with a slight advantage to Heroes, Mellow Yellow calling an early time out. We saw some massive plays from our new recruits, Chloe almost getting a Callahan and James getting an impossible layout to catch the disc only centimetres from the ground.

With only 5 minutes to go the game was tied up at 8 points a piece. Both teams anxious to get on with the game, yet thorough with their strategies, saw Heroes take the final two points to take the victory against a not so mellow Yellow.

Final score: Heroes: 10, Mellow Yellow: 8

Div 1

Heroes made their debut in to div 1 combing players from Div 2 Heroes, dyspnoeics and a few other sources, under the name Super Heroes.

Up against Wushi Finger Hold we took out the first point via a hammer from Carl to the endzone. We traded points until it was 4 each until Wushi took a hold of the game and made a break away.

Heroes welcome Ash, Mel, Mansauce, Adam, Adilia and Tatiana (was there anyone else?) to the club who all individually proved themselves valuable to the team. Unfortunately Wushi took the game in the end however we should be proud of our efforts and I think we may have taken the opposition by surprise. We look forward to playing again.

Final score: Super Heroes: 9, MellowYellow Wushi Finger Hold: 16