Match Reports Round 14

Heroes - Seb

In a game where the lead changed a number of times, Heroes were fortunate enough to come away with a 13-12 win over the ever improving Blitz 2. Heroes started with a few scores while Blitz were still finding their feet. They found a better rhythm through our zone, clawed their way back and then overtook us to take half 8-5. We knew we were playing woefully and that Blitz would keep taking their opportunities if we gave it to them enough. Out of half we got a bit of a roll on, managing to get up by a couple of points when last point was called. Good resolve was shown by the boys to turn the mid game slump around. Jmac and Goose did a great job steering the ship for Blitz, but the highlight of their play was from their new players who often through their bodies around to get blocks. Alex and Liam showed real hustle to get a handful of blocks.

Blitz 1 - Cunliffe

It was billed as the prelude to the "old vets vs young contenders"

blockbuster - but if anything it lacked excitement and ironically Blitz and Dojo won't be facing off in the semi after all...

Don't take that the wrong way, it only lacked excitement because the performance of both sides was pretty rock solid.

Both sides worked the disc into the endzone when on offence very comfortably. Blocks seemed hard to come by for both teams. I even tried to spice things up for the Blitz defensive by guaranteeing a spot on the semi final team next week for any Blitz player that got a layout block... but still blocks were not forthcoming.

At the end of the day, I think the biggest difference between the teams was that Blitz made 4 or 5 unforced errors with their dumping, swinging or catching in front of their endzone and against an experienced team like Dojo at that range it may as well have been a Callahan.

Anyway Dojo have secured themselves another minor premiership and are off to play their old foe - Slamtown - the "old vets vs young contender"

blockbuster looks to have been delayed a week...

Bugs - TJ

Even this late in the season, the BPL can still throw up results that cause dramas for the tipsters out there. In what will probably be viewed as one of the upsets of the season, the 6^th placed Buggers last night delivered the previously undefeated Cobras their first loss of the season. Some might view the win as even more surprising considering the Bugs were missing two of their most experienced players in Tim Ferg and Buzz. With a short line of 8 guys, the Buggers knew it was going to be a tough night against the Firestorm stacked Cobras. The Bugs came out firing and took an early lead 3-0. The Cobras responded with a solid zone D to bring it back to 5-5. A hard fought first half ended with Buggers up 8-6. A new look handling line provided a solid base for the Bugs offence with good disc movement and plenty of patience. The Cobras continued to fight and the second half saw some high quality Ultimate from both teams however the MBB were able to continue to convert their offence and generate Ds. As the clock wound down, the intensity increased with both teams playing hard but the Bugs held off the Cobras to take the win 15-13. The win was only the 3^rd of the season for the Bugs who seem to have found some form in the dying stages of the comp. Talk about too little, too late! But it was an important win which will have a knock on affect for the semi-final match ups. That little Bug had one last snap in its tail. On a personal note, last night was my last game of BPL for the foreseeable future as I’m off to Melbourne. I’d like to thank all the guys who I’ve competed with and against of the past 4 years of BPL. It’s been a pleasure. 

Cobras - Troy

My interest in the world has lessened in the last week due to the AFL deciding that Geelong should have a bye. I mean give me a break, they get the whole summer off; it seems only fair that they roll out every week and put on a show for me all winter. This week though to fill some time a few of us visited Kissy and were quite surprised when we found a stack of Cosmo magazines, once we looked at them a bit closer we found they all had pages missing from them. Could this possibly explain Kasey’s impeccable seasonal fashion sense or his use of stubble to bring out his cheek bones. No folks this isn't what he gets the magazines for he assures us that is all just natural talent he buys them for the quizzes. We walked into the spare room in his house and the walls were covered in them, it seems he would be the perfect buff 4 life based on the results. Although sometimes he had taken an option (e) which wasn't offered on the final question to get to the box that he wanted to end up at. The other thing we learnt was his next holiday should be on a sailing boat. When we left Kasey’s place we ran into Commander Keith, it turns out he has hung up his lion and is living in Brisbane these days. We had a good day at the pub with him although he is very much still into his books and wasn't willing to play pool with us. In the end we left him to read the end of his Mr. Men book only because it was about my personal favourite Mr. Tickle.

Dojo - ads

Game of Thrones is awesome, but Sparticus is better. More like soft core porn than adventure narratives, but to each his own. That was pretty much our half time speech from Sensei. 

Another smooth game from Dojo, and unfortunately we were all betting on playing each other again so Blitz split their best team up. They had some great points from their younger players, showing patience in the face of Dojo. We were all standing around telling ourselves that the real game is next week, before we wandered over and saw that was not the case. 

This game saw Watto come back after being married. One more game, one more run through block. No thumbers in sight. 

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