Round 3 results and match reports

Hi all, last week's games below (Round 3). Nice post Sensei.

Blitz 1 beat Dojo (12-10), Cobras beat Heroes (15-13), Blitz 2 beat UQ lovers (13-12), Slamtown beat Bugs (??)


Heroes - seb

Heroes were fired up to compete with last season's champions on Thursday night. Cobras played well in the first half and earnt a 3 point buffer to half. Heroes valued the disc a little better and made Cobras pay for their errors, leading to a 6 point run of our own. As all good teams do, Cobras retained their composure, upped the pressure and drew the game level at 13's. At this stage Heroes made a couple of simple errors and Cobras ran away with it 15 to 13. We put in a great fight and our effort and result bodes well for our upcoming matches!

Blitz 2 - Timocles

B2 vs Lovers is always going to result in a tough match. The game started with some UQ zone destroying B2's offense and UQ getting up to half at 8-1. After a rousing half time speech, we decided to start playing an offense a little bit more tailored to our team strengths. Athleticism and definitely not throwing. After finally making it on to some defense points, our man was starting to get the better of UQ. Dumps were being shut down with bodies flying everywhere. The end was potentially the most anti-climactic with B2 up by one point about to defend for the win when someone comes across and exclaimed that the last point was a the point before hand. The win ended up going to B2. 

Blitz 1 - Cunliffe

This week's game against Dojo was the battle for top of the table and it was a cracker. Blitz took the early break, but the vast majority of the game was trading blow for blow. I think the biggest margin in the game was only 3 points and it was a tight finish with Blitz taking it 12 to 10.

It was a game dominated by the defensive strategies of both teams. Each largely stuck to their key defensive strategies,  "hard man" in Blitz's case and "tight zone" in Dojo's case. It felt like one of those games where the defensive strength of each team was perfect to exploit the opposing teams offensive weakness - this made for long draw out points - where very little was given away cheaply and every metre was earned.

All in all it was a great hard game of ultimate that was largely played in quite good spirits for what was such a tight game.

Dojo - Sensei

When I think of last night’s game, there’s one word that sums it up:

Poo.

Yes, poo. It’s something that the DILFs of the Dojo have had plenty of time to get accustomed to, what with all the nappy changing we get to spend the early hours of our mornings doing. But last night was different. Leon arrived announcing he’d spent the last 24 hours in a state of gastro bliss, while Coops spent the whole night desperately looking for a dump option, and not the kind you go for on stall count 8...

Poo is also a pretty appropriate description of most of the long options Dojo took on the night. Nice cuts & all, but whoa when the throws weren’t stinky the catches were! And when you get to our age, well, running all the way to the other end of the field is something you really only want to do once or twice a night, and even then only if you absolutely, positively have to.

The diagnosis we’ve got from our Dojo dietician (who is also responsible for the special supplements program that we run in the off-season) is that we’re a little “blocked up” now that we’re lacking the dietary fibre otherwise known as Pete Allen lurking around the endzones. So don’t be surprised to see us collectively eating a big bowl of”500 Brand” bran flakes before the games for the rest of the season.  A return of our weekly helping of Dan Walls won’t hurt either.

Blitz? Yeah good game all round. But I gotta say I’m getting tired of never knowing who you’re going to play against in a Blitz team. JMac busts himself up on the dancefloor? No worries - just bring across Cunliffe and forget about the B team. And then enjoy the benefit of being able to hone your strategy against the same team (ie us) two weeks in a row!

I’m not saying that either team is a 1-player team - there’s plenty of talent & speed on both. But I’m trying to think of any other league anywhere where teams are allowed to swap around players as they see fit. There’s something very unsporting about it - no need to make any hard calls and live with them for the season like everyone else does, just mix it up however you like knowing that come finals time (or any critical regular-season game) you can grab your best guys and pile them all into one team. Have that cake and eat it too! I certainly won’t be supporting this happening again in the future. Sure, two Blitz teams is great, but lock ‘em in from the start like Bugs did when they had two teams.

Oh and one more serious comment just for the record, for all those who said “you can’t call a timeout in the last 5 minutes” - that is INCORRECT. Read the BPL rules. Failing to get that regrouping timeout effectively cost us what should’ve been a drawn result. And that’s all I’m going to say about that!