Round 11 - Match Reports and Results

Hi all, results below and then match reviews. And before you read them, grab beer and some nuts, sit down and enjoy another tremendous match summary from the Architect of Brisbane Ultimate, Sensei.

Slamtown beat Heroes 15-8, Cobras 15-11, UQ Lovers beat Bugs 15-5, Blitz 1 beat Blitz 2 15-4.

Heroes - Seb

Slamtown got up over Heroes in pretty convincing fashion, 15 to 8 Thursday night. They valued their possession of the disc and when we gave it to them cheaply they converted with ease. We really shot ourselves in the foot with poor options and skills. Not a lot of positives for the Heroes, only consolation is that we will have a chance to bounce back next week.

Slamtown - Stef

SFC came out to a great start and were able to get a few break points early.  With a comfortable lead we moved the disc with great efficiency on O and used our zone defence to generate turns.  Heroes came close and were patient for 80% of their possessions.  Unfortunately, their red-zone offence let them down as SFC defence tightened up on them.  Coolhand Luke had a big game for the Slammers, and Chris Browns hucking proficiency shows the positive influences of a season in Slamtown.

Dojo - Sensei

You know, one of the problems with having a team made up mostly of dads (or DILFs, as Finn worryingly referred to us - not quite sure what he means by that), is that you never really know what’s going on in the collective minds of the team during a game of Ultimate.

It could range from “Geez I hope Kirstin can get next Thursday night off work”, to “Is it ballet class or soccer on Saturday morning?”, or “oh man another night with 2 hours sleep coming up”, or even “Upsy Daisy here I come, I’m the only Upsy one, I’m the only Daisy doo, ipsy Upsy Daisy doo!”. Okay that last one was from personal experience, and to anyone out there who doesn’t know that disturbing little jingle already, your time will most surely come...

And tonight you’d have to say that most of the Dojo throwers had their heads firmly in the Night Garden as disc after disc went long, generally to a place where no receiver was to be found. We don’t take official stats (yet!) but I reckon if we did we’d find that there were more inexplicable Dojo throwaways than actual goals tonight. A lot more. And that makes it hard to win games.

So on that basis we probably should be happy with losing only 4 points. Cobras played some pretty seamless Ultimate - strewth even Reece barely had a turnover! And the turnovers there were had to be earned by the Dojo defence - one notable mention that must be made is LD Adz making not one, not two but three endzone blocks in a single point! Mostly on guys he wasn’t even supposed to be marking! I won’t mention that he could have saved himself a couple of those blocks by catching the disc in the Cobras endzone. Oh dammit I just did mention it.

So there you go. Not quite epic fail territory but reasonably close. Some serious amends to be made come finals time

UQ Lovers - BW

Fresh off a win from last week we had a bit of confidence going in to this one. Once again we were able to utilise more players on the field each point with a few of our newer players really stepping it up on both offense and defense. Special mention to Josh for getting a few massive Ds on some bigger match ups. Nat was also able to use his height this week very effectively catching a few goals over his defender and Hamish was generating space every time he cut for the disc. Our other rookies are really starting to step it up as well and their confidence with the disc in hand, taking a smart option and gaining yards on throws are all on the improve.

UQ Lovers came off to a pretty good start, putting up some early hucks that mostly completed. On defense we played a mixture of zone and man. The zone forced a lot of throws, but the buggers were more than a match for it and were happy to play the 100-pass offense to beat it. The man defense gave up a lot of yardage was a bit more effective in getting the block. We got up a 4-2 lead before calling a timeout to work on a couple of things. We came out a bit more fired up after that and were able to take it to half 8-2. After half offense scored the first 5 goals to have the score at 10-5 before a marathon point ensued. Both teams had opportunities to score and on about the 10th UQ possession we called a timeout before getting the goal. I think that was the final bit of fight out of the Buggers and UQ were able to score the next 4 points to take the win 15-5.