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.

Heroes v Poachers

In what was a round to remember the league saw a few wins that perhaps would not have been tipped to occur. Frisky Time beating M.Yellow by 1, Dyspnoeics over Discheds and the highly ranked Ghost walkers got up against Baby chimis. Wow what a round and more entertainingly Poachers and Heroes played out a draw 8 all. In what has become a modern day rivalry these teams have played each other 3 times.
1st was poachers win 13-11
2nd was Heroes win 10-5
and now the 3rd is a 8-8 draw
I guess the only problem is that we like to play the Poachers so its maybe not a fierce rivalry but all the same its a fun contest every time.

The old, "the game was deserving to be a draw" "both teams played as good as each other" stuff is boring, but in this instance very true! 
Each side managed to pull off well constructed points when needed and created good flow. All the same it was Heroes who lost the match. Last possession was called on the Poachers pull and Heroes moved it up the field and Mikey caught the disc in the endzone, well sorta, when he jumped he was in the endzone and landed about a 1/2 foot out of bounds, which was so excruciating from my point of view. A win last night would have seen the Heroes stay in touch with outright 2nd but now it appears that GWW and Dyspnoeics will take that role.

Next week sees the un-beaten ExQUisiTe fresh from their bye, up against Heroes. This will be a good yard stick for us to see where we are at. We will be at our best if we are going to topple the league favourites.
3-2-1-Heroes

KinderSurprise

I'm sorry for the rotten 'bad egg' analogies throughout this post but ill do my best to crack some jokes for you too. Last nights action saw heroes take the line against the poachers and if you'll remember last game it was a close fought match, in fact what we got was a bit of a kinder surprise as it were...

the game started much like last week, where we could do all but score for the first few minutes. Certainly our D was working very well, we had them pinned to their endzone for perhaps 4 possessions, but we just couldn't score. Kinda frustrating considering they were playing with 6 as well. But in the end we SCORED. 1-0. Our good defensive manD continued to reign supreme and we got a turn over with some nice blocks. 3-0. We didnt know what was happening, we were all over them, in contrast to our last game. Yes they were missing a few key players, but last time their whole team seemed fairly well drilled, for want of a better word.

Poachers put some rather good passes together to get a nice huck from Dan B to Theo to score which was maybe their only highlight from the first half. 3-1. From here Heroes extended their lead out to 8-1 with just good strong manD and towards the end a tough zone too. We offered to take back own zone and go to man again, a sediment that was remembered from last game when Poachers offered the same to us. In the same pattern poachers were able to get back into the game, with a handy pick up (Chaddy). They brought the game back to 10-5 in the end, but a bit of a case of too little too late. Personally I don't like winning games like this in our div2 league but the sentiment in the circle after the game was that it was spirited & lots of fun being had.
Shout out to all of our players last night, we didnt once score on a huck and where able to smoothly pass the disc around and control it, well done on that team.

Hard boiled eggs

Last night Heroes played Poachers, and boi were they hard to crack, but we gave them a push. Their infamous(!?!) star Canadian recruit's skill/reputation had been spreading throughout the club as one to watch out for. But getting away from him Heroes played really well in the end. These early starts are totally killing any sort of preparation/warm up and so we struggled for about the first 15 mins going down 4-1. Poachers were nice enough to relax their zone, even though I did warn Dan that we could play better and that it probably wasn’t their zone getting on top of us, more our own silly errors. But still they were nice enough to go to Man D. I thought this was the trigger point for us in the game. We quickly got the score back closer to 6-4. Laura H was the catalyst with scoring something like 5 points and getting 3 blocks - WooT.
After playing, and getting back into the game, Poachers allowed us to pick up a player (Dave B) and we thought we would allow their zone once more. The game traded points until 10-9 with the Poachers on serve (they would always be the ones getting the 1-up point), and were beginning to realise they had the long advantage on a huck. They seemed to only score this way and in contrast we scored by nicely linked passing. I began playing a hard straight up D on Poachers main handler which seemed to restrict the huck quite well and we were able to get some easy turnovers from wayward throws.
In the end, Poachers broke the heroes and went up 13-10 when last possession was called on the Poachers pull. To our credit we scored on last possession rather easily and ran the game out to 13-11.
Poachers played very well and the spirit of the game was very much the winner, but more accurately Poachers had won. We felt as though we played well considering being down by so much at the start. Great game poachers and yes we'll see you in the finals to come :P

Discheads Vs Poachers

This night saw Discheads vs the formidable poachers who brought their A game (for once). Poachers played man first up on the DH's and play was pretty much even with the Poachers taking an early lead by about 3 or 4. To the surprise of this blogger Im told the discheads fought back to be up by one at the halfway point through the game.

Through lack of fitness and eventual skill errors the mighty dischead's, Poachers were able to place their 'killer zone' as reported by rookie player - CraigyB. All reports gave way to a fast paced game were the poachers were able to get a roll on and score the last 8 or so points.

Game notes: Bev as usual anchored the side handling (questionable tactics given his sweet as leaps) with Alex and the Spaz roaming up field getting lots of disc. Raving mention came to the performance of Jo, Corrie and Chantelle with some nice cutting and strong presence on the turf.

Better luck next week Discheads, train hard and put in 100%
End score 9:5 Poachers (apparently)