The phantom no match for the incredible HUC

Last nights match between GWW and the Heroes in the BUML was a good one, as expected.
Heroes managed to start the game with 5, whilst both Chaddy and Tomsteve were running to the line. The first point was a bit of shambles really. We played a puppy zone, but whilst Tomsteve joined us, Chaddy was still sitting in the endzone doing his laces... After watching a huck come from the GWW he was quickly up on his feet, whilst I was chasing it down next to Justin. Fortunately the wind blew it to far away from a contest and chaddy picked up to play on.
We quickly broke up and took a lead 1-0. The GWW broke back up wind in reasonable fashion to make it 1-1. Both teams played a heavy zone all night which made handling pretty fun, considering our dumping focus at training the previous day. Heroes managed to get out to an early two point lead @ 3-1 until the GWW clawed it back to be up 6-4. The game was hanging in the balance and Heroes called a timeout. It was a good call for us playing with no girl subs and only 1 male sub. After the time out Heroes started to click. We put some good passes together to rip that cup apart. Meagan found a great distributer role, deliberately hanging back to receive the poppers pass out and quickly off loaded to others streaming past. It was good to see Brad pulling down more long hucks, just now having to work on the next pass : P
After the game GWW said they just couldnt keep up with the green Heroes and that was what got us over the line. We put something like 8 points on in a row. GWW really deserved to win all their placing games. From coming up from the B pool and pushing all the teams they play, I think next year we'll have to watch out for the ghosts. Final score 12-8 to Heroes

Super Hero Showdown

I love the super hero theme that this BUML d2 league has, dont you? Well at least a few teams carry the 'superhero' thing, one of those the Ghost who walks
Heroes knew we would be likely to start slow with all the time off lately so we got a great in and away drill going. We did it well and it carried into the game. The purple "kit(ed) walkers" won the toss and chose to receive so we hucked it down there and put a strong manD on. LauraD injected herself straight into the game with the old run just behind tactic to get the sly block in. Unfortunately we took a while and a few possessions to score but we got it. The walkers quickly traded and got on the board with a good outside in forehand from Luke Allen-Ankins to the miss matched height between myself and Sean?(sorry cant remember names).
We traded points in what was turning into a very tight match. The GWW were staying in the game and used their height very effectively. I guess when you've got it, flaunt it right? I lost track at how many flick hucks came from Luke to one of their 7ft receivers. Heroes let them get out to a three point lead through some sloppy play on our behalf and capitalizing play by GWW. The score got to 8-5 the purples way.
Im not sure what happened but then it all clicked.
The green machine decided to play and show the form of previous weeks. LauraS saw chaddy open-ish (lets face it, he's always open even when there’s someone marking him) going long and decided to  honour the long cut. A beautiful disc went up and with the right tilt to favour the receiver, we made the score. LauraS played superbly actually, assisting in about half of our scores I thought. Lastly BradDull has finally learnt how to run and read a disc!!!  I thought he played fantasticly both on D and O and I can see him being quite dangerous in the finals series.
Heroes managed to pull out something like 4 points in a row and got the win out in the end to make it 9-7.
Special peeps out to Bev, Craig, and Seb for helping us out and picking up for us.

AO Match Report Round 1

The question on everybodies lips (from AO) tonight was 'Where's Starky?'. And then also for that matter Grant, Karin and Omar, our new recruits (who we haven't been able to contact and so weren't seriously expecting them anyway). And while we're at it 'Where's Bev?' our volunteer superstar pickup. These were the only questions we asked all night though.

3 Girls and 3 Guys provided us with the opportunity/necessity to play Zone defence against the enthusiastic The Ghost Who Walks (who had really great looking shiny new uniforms just btw - and a healthy bench). We would have prefered not to on opening night, especially against a team with quite a few new players, but playing a point of man defence confirmed that they would kill us all night with the extra guy. The Zone obviously worked to our advantage, leaving their offence confused. The score blew out to 16-5 until the 5 min warning when TGWW kicked it up a notch scoring the next 4 in a row. (Final Score 16-9).

Being a player short meant we all had to put in a bit more effort. The team shared the work load really nicely, with several points going through all 6 sets of hands before scoring. Steph had some great grabs (and probably ran so much that she would have been fatigued for Div1). Dave was solid in long D all night winning almost every ariel battle they forced him into. James had a stellar game with the disc. Vanessa and Alana made precision cuts. And I managed a lay out to score (after almost missing it entirely because I looked away when I thought Dave wasn't gonna throw it). Stand out performances from all!

TGWW caught the disc well, ran hard, and didn't give up (resulting in an awesome finish). A few too many wayward throws under pressure was a large part of their downfall. Game experience should see this improve however.

A good start to the season for AO.