Match Reports 13th Sept

Table updated on the right. 

Blitz - Craig

At about 4pm it became apparent that we were going to have a couple guys missing, including 'Thornberry'. However, we managed to pull together 8 dudes on the night. Heroes on the other hand, had what looked like an entire tribe. Heroes came out on D, upwind. They got the brake. However, Blitz punched in a downwind score in reply. 1-1. Blitz came out on D.

and stayed there for the largest part of the night, with the Heroes handlers not getting a great deal of help from the poppers and the Blitz zone resulting in several brakes. Blitz managed to take half at 8-1.

After the halftime break, Heroes came out and broke back with 2 quick scores. But they wouldn't trouble the scoreboard again for the rest of the night. Unforced errors, and overly risky shots into the endzone for the conditions, by the somewhat frustrated Heroes, is what was the real difference on the night.

Final score, 15-3. Blitz win.

UQ Lovers - BW

A game on a windy night, i felt the toss was going to be pretty important. Although we lost it, we got what we wanted - going downwind on offense. A few traitor calls and an invitation to chuck on the orts again thrown my way and we were ready to play. Junk seemed to be the flavour of the night with points being traded on offense and downwind until we were up 4-3 and called a timeout. After getting a block we were able to convert in to the wind  and go up 5-3. Slamtown were able to punch it in upwind very quickly while we struggled the point after to keep the lead at 2, 6-4. Although that'd be the last point we could take before half as our defense started to falter and the slammers defense rose in intensity. They were able to capitalise on shortfield turnovers where we weren't able to set the defense we wanted and quickly hit the mismatches or throw to the 'break side' when we had the wrong force on.

 That run looked very comfortable for slamtown and they continued it out of half to get up 9-6. Our offense never really lost its touch, just a couple execution errors. Coming out of half we were able to get our down wind points a lot more easily or if there were turns able to get that pressure on defense to force some more blocks. Getting our downwind point and then going on a minirun getting the upwind point followed a downwind block and score meant we were back in the game at 9s. The hooter going when we were down 10-9 with possession going down wind but unable to get it in after about 5 tries. A scrappy finish to a game that Slamtown seemed to want it a lot more than us. A little bit of internal combustion on the part of both teams throughout parts of the game as plays didn't go as planned.

A catch by abra towing the line to tie it at 6s, which was thrown down the breakside seemed to really fire up the slammers and some high pressure defense across the board made it really hard for our offense working upwind. A few great plays by us, we had Mitch catching a super floaty throw by some chump over the top of their talls for the score. Bayney getting another layout grab just off the ground in a position very similar to last weeks.

It's disappointing to end another game to close on the scoreboard and still have 0 wins for the season, but it really is a credit to the entire team that we are even thereabouts in games so early on. Hopefully before next week we find that little bit of desire that was missing in parts of that game and step up our own game when the other team steps up. 

Heroes - Seb

Heroes vs Blitz, final score was Blitz up 15 to 3. For every point we scored, they managed to put on 5. Blitz had a tight zone that they ran all night and with the conditions favourable for such a defence they really gained confidence early on and never looked back. When we didn't make short field turn overs in the handling line we were often  seen hucking the disc down Chris Cunliffe's throat. On our part it was a pretty woeful performance and we look forward to giving Blitz a better run next round. Blitz put in a really solid effort and are greatly improved since last season. Cunliffe leads the way with multiple touches and good long throws each point, Timocles was a mongrel puppy and great on the turn, Spesh and Craig Behrendorff ran all night, and Ben Van Den Hoogenband (spelling?) chipped in with a number of great long grabs.

That just about sums it up, well played Blitz, and the less said about the Heroes play, the better.

Cobras - Troy

All season we have been looking for the metaphor that best describes Cobras. At some point it became so obvious Bloons! If you don’t know what Bloons is please comment below and we will send Wetnose around to kill you as your life has little to no meaning and it would best to put you out of your misery. Anyway back to why Bloons equals Cobras, at first much like Jules in Pulp Fiction at first thought he was the good, beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men (Yeah I watched that movie more than once, as I still sadly know that quote). I at first thought Cobras were the balloons, attempting to float free but being held back by the weight

of expectation with other sides throwing hurtful darts in our direction. Then much like Jules was forced to realise that this was not the case and he was in fact the evil men and that Brad was the weak (Even though he had a Big Kahuna Burger), I have been forced to realise that we are the Monkey. We look at a team and then we go about popping their hopes and dreams, when the task seems like it should be too hard we have managed to find a power up and get through to the next level. We hope that as the weeks continue to pass by the power ups continue to show up at the right time and the run can continue as BPL seems to be less keen on the try again function than Bloons. Cobras 15-10

Slamtown - Stef

On a windy Thurs, we were very ready for our first win of the season... and knowing that we had the leagues expansion team on deck, we were not ready for any more surprises.

We got the win, but it was ugly.  UQ played well, credit is most certainly deserved.  BW, Baynes, Garry, and Tyson are a very handy foursome, and the new lookin fellas were getting the job done.
UQ dictated the pace of trading for a while... and then before half, we went on a 4 point run... we looked pretty good for those four points... but pretty ordinary for most other portions of the game.  Mike Morgs reckons we had 20 drops... sounds about right.
Not subrisingly, UQ were right back in it... it got to 10-9 when full time expired, and the next point would either give UQ a draw, or us the 2pt win... and the point was epic... horrible for any spectators, but fully intense on the field... after about 4 possessions each... SFC finally put one in, and are now happy to relish in our first win of the season.  We are excited about the shape of the league this year, and are gonna be comin out swingin

Dojo - Ads

Emails were flying about who was turning up, and I was thankful for the slightly larger roster compared to previous seasons. We had a few missing, but the Cobras win was down to their hard man defense on up wind points, and very few turns in the windy conditions. Dojo uncharacteristically turned some in the wind, and Reece was cutting and popping like a crazy man, keeping Coops busy on D for most of the night. 

Cobras got a bloke with us going down wind, and I'm sure that gave them some confidence. They put a couple on us, but we chased them down to within one fairly quickly. At around 5-4 we turned successive discs over to them, and they scored with impunity, taking the half. After that we were matching point to point, but didn't get big breaks 

Moments of the game was the ridiculous hammer thrown by Daz and caught by Watto, and a similar hail mary thrown by (Ryan?) and caught by Pete as it was swinging down on the back of the end zone line.  The Cobras tried a few unexpected long points, which came off at times, but in a comedic moment there was a huck off the pull put up for Reece in the end zone, and four Dojo players standing around him to deny him the disc. Scored in a similar fashion 2 minutes later though.