Spring league 2007 Champions

As I write the coveted R.C. Dog cup trophy takes pride of place in my lounge room. Thanks to the efforts of the Crusty Buggers team there is another MBB name engraved on this unique perpetual trophy.

It was a good effort by both teams this season, the Fresh Buggers had some great moments and looked to be a real powerhouse of the competition after the first few weeks. The Crusty team also started with a bang in round one when we pitted our brand new line up against the Rawhide team and come out on top.

Both teams had challenging patches through the middle section of the competition with player numbers being as issue for the Fresh squad especially. Through the final weeks of the competition i think both teams played some good frisbee and it was great to have 2 teams in the Semi final stage.

The Crusty team performed very well in our last 3 games. I think this is a lot to do with the ability of the team to play well across a whole game. We spoke a lot about focus and effort being aspects of our game the can be directly controlled. There are many components and happenings in a game of frisbee that players have limited or no control over, so its very important to make sure you do well is the aspects that you can control.

The grand final on Thursday night was a example of this. Both teams were evenly matched through the beginning stages of the game, the Crusty team just managed to stay focussed, intense and committed to our systems for longer. I think this is the major reason why we pulled away in the late stage of the second half. Steve and I did break 2 of their players in the second half of the game, however i think we were out and looking like taking it by that stage.

Highlights for me of the game were a couple of Jason's full field backhands, the impressive under cutting of Micka Kanowski (Crusty Bug Roookie of the League), that 1 massive block that Steve got in the front corner of the endzone, the consistency of our effort across the game and some of the post game talk and celebration.
"How old are you Spinner?" - "I'm 30"
"Jason?" - "Oh over 40 now"
"What about you Kanowski?" - "Yeah i'm 19." - "woah"
"Hey Steve, your still 17 aren't you?" - Looks down at the drink in his hand - "Yeah" The boys break up laughing.

That was a funny moment.


So well done teams, i hope everyone had positive experiences during the league and are looking forward to taking a little break before firing it up again in 2008.

Cheers Buggers.

Another season, another party

G'day Bugger fans

So another season of the BPL is drawing to a close. The Moreton Bay Buggers club has had some highlights and some disappointments during the league. It has been great for us to enter 2 strong playing teams into the comp, and i hope to see the buggers continue to represent in future leagues.

We have 2 teams in the semi finals next week, and due to a few interesting developments the Crusty Buggers will play the Fresh Buggers in a semi final. So we are assured of having 1 of our teams in the grand final in 2 weeks time, excellent.

On Friday night, thanks to the social committee (Ben and Wet Nose), we had our end of season social night. It was a pretty good night with Buggers from both team in attendance and in pretty good form. We hit the Embassy Hotel with cheap drink deals organised and a dance floor that took a while to get going but once it did - baby, good times!

A key feature of the night was the boat race to see who would get to wear their Blue buggers strips for the semi final. A worthy award and very well contested. Racing for the crusty team were Mike, Spinner, Manuel and Nandor at anchor. The Fresh line up was Ben Worby, Beej, Carlos and Jangles at anchor. The weapon of choice was schooners of Tooweys, the stage was set.

With Notty starting the race off like a cute girlfriend in one of those 60's type aqueduct hot rod drag races the Worby monster and I were off. Using his years of experience and commitment to the discipline Ben got a lead for the freshies by 2 or 3 fingers, Spinner then put the Crusty effort into gear and made good in roads into the fresh lead. During the Columbian leg Carlos "the dark horse" pulled away again and going into the final pair of drinkers Jangles might have had 2/3 seconds and 3/4 fingers head start. Enter the Locher!

Nandor smashed down that long glass of beer like he was hucking a forehand out of a zone - quickly and accurately. That drink disappeared in impressive style and the Crusty team was victorious. Blue shirts on Thursday Crusty boys! It was all very fun and I think we all enjoyed it (after our heads stopped hurting that is).

Plenty of frisbee was talked, lots of tidy dance moves were executed and as far as i'm concerned good times were had by all. Thanks Ben and Wet Nose for getting the night sorted - it is great to get all the Buggers together for a bit of raucous action from time to time.

Thanks for a good season teams, play well in the semi this week and starting thinking about what you want to achieve with your Bugger team mates next year.

Fresh air for everyone!

Welcome Buggers, new and old to the Buggers' "Fresh" squad.

Thursday night saw a good turn out with 10 players, 6 old and 4 new. It was great to see the new guys fit straight into the squad with what looked and felt like a fully functioning BPL team within a few points.

Although beaten to the half by 2 or 3 points we pushed hard and punished their zone to even the score not long after the break, finishing the game at a bittersweet draw. Robbed by 'the Foot of God' catch after the huck a few points into the game.

Personal Highlights of the game:

Beej asking permission to huck a massive forehard to Wet Nose in the endzone.
Quinn's sweet 'fully horizontal 4 feet in the air' layout to catch my swill
Two Callaghan's in one game! Nice work Jangles.
Making BPL's top zone defense took like something you'd see on Monday night.

Great game Freshies, it feels really good to play on this team.

Gold Digger

New team, Old club, New players, Old system

So the MBB: Crusty Buggers had their first run around last Thursday. This team consists of some well established Brisbane players and some brand new talent.

Here at the Buggers I think we have a well refined system for taking new players and acculturating them into the tactics, and acclimatising them to the speed that works at the BPL level.

Last thursday night was a great example of this. We played a game against the Rawhide team with 3 buggers from last years team, and 4 brand new buggers (including 3 guys playing their first game of BPL). We played savage all game and won the by 11 points. I was really proud of the effort and hard running of the new blokes and of the patience and leadership of the old blokes.

It's hard not to feel good when things are going that well for you, and i'm sure all the players had a great time. I think part of the result can be attributed to a good simple system, part to effort and application, and part to luck. It all happened to be on our side in round 1.

I'm really looking forward to getting the other 5 Crusty Buggers onto the track so we can build a strong new team and continue our positive start.

Yeah Buggers!

Bugs in my teeth

In order to spend some time talking about how good we have been, and how good we could continue to be, we went out for a night

The social committee (Ben Worby) got the thing together and it all worked out pretty bloody well.

Ben 'social committee' Worby

First we played some pool at a place called Qmasters. There was a 'big boys' table and a 'small boys' table. If you won you went up to the big boys, if you lost you went down to the little boys. We played paired pool with best of 3 game contests happening on the big boys table in the same time that 1 game was played at the kids table.

This me after my 'pool for beginners and chumps' coaching session from JRay. "Get your chin onto the pool Que Mike, you are bringing in an error of parallax."

The winners of each rubber would afforded the right to choose the drink that the losers would purchase for both teams. The complication was that at Qmasters the pool tables are not in the licenced area, so the drink of choice was some kind of shot. Consequently the first 3 or 4 few drinks that most of the boys had were some kind of firey shot. Finished off one bottle of black sambuca that was on the shelf and had a good run at the other one. Jason was on call for work and so couldn't go too hard on the booze. Never the less the social committee had a plan, Jasons first drink was a shot of lime cordial, youch.

Anyway as you can imagine some players made out pretty well by winning a lot of games and getting a lot of drinks bought for them. It was a good fun start.

We then headed up to the Normanby where Massey was having a going away party. This turned into a big fat booze up with various members of the Brisbane Frisbee community. I had a top time.

So, thanks for the great night Ben and team, so long Massey, enjoy southern California and the girl. Thanks Chady for the photo action. I'll see you all again for another Buggers social night soon.

Mike

The Year of the Bug

Well, well, well. Another successful Moreton Bay Buggers BPL season.

For the first time in the history of the Dog Cup/MAL/BPL there were 5 healthy and competitive teams in contention. All teams had distinct cultures and playing styles. It was a joy to have that level of variety and freshness in the league.

After a competitive and exciting regular season the Semi Finals arrived with the teams positioned like this: 1 MBB, 2 UQ Lovers, 3 DoJo, 4 UQ Passion, 5 Rawhide. With 4 players overseas and unavailable for periods of the final series the Buggers managed to scrape through 2 weeks of extreme intensity UQ final match ups. We played in our 5th Grand Final in a row and won our 3rd.

I wasn't at the Grand Final and so can't convey much information about the game. The final score was MBB by 1 point over an extremely competitive UQ Lovers team. We played the Lovers 3 times over the season with the following results: Lovers by 1, Draw, Buggers by 1. A drawn season! The Buggers just managed to make our only win of the season in the final game. These 2 teams have placed a few more stones in the bridge of rivalry that joins our 2 strong and different Frisbee clubs.

The spring league of the BPL is only 2 weeks away and the Moreton Bay Buggers are taking a page from the Lovers club and entering 2 teams into the league. The BPL will now include the MBB: Crusty Buggers and the MBB: Fresh Buggers, making this league a 6 team competition!

This spring league will be very interesting as arguably the strong team over the last year divides and grows its player base. How will the new teams play? Who will rise to control the competition? How will the playing styles of the new teams change from the established Bugger method? How will the Crusty and Fresh boys integrate 6-8 new players into the BPL? Where will these players come from?

As far as i'm concerned this is shaping up to be a very interesting Brisbane Premier League. Strap yourselves in.

Buggers too hot for Rawhide (15-9)

Round 5 saw the Bugs up against Rawhide - a group of experienced campaigners vying for their first win of their debut BPL season.

Given the teams’ relative ladder positions, the Buggers were due for a plain sailing evening, but Tony Ross forgot to give his men the script as Rawhide shot out to a 2-0 lead. When the Buggers awoke they managed to even the scores 2-2 through patient working of the disc and dumps to advantage as practised the previous week at training.

Rawhide counterattacked though and crept to 5-3 lead. This prompted the Bugs to employ a puppy fence in a bid to thwart hucks to breaks from the back of the Rawhide stack. The tactic proved hugely successful in stopping the downfield pass and preventing significant gain in field position. Buggers took half 8-5. The Buggers’ momentum continued through to the second half. On offense, Mat Ryan was too quick for his opponents, scoring multiple goals from a well-structured stack.

The O team also used a horizontal stack which created many passing options (quite a few through the centre corridor) and moved the disc quickly across field to good effect. Also the swill-to-Neild option proved successful on a number of forward thrusts.

A creditable performance from Rawhide, but not enough to deny the Buggers the three points as they got up 15-9.

By Micka Kanowski

Top of the Table rumble

Heres my blog:

On a perfect night for frisbee with the temperature mild and the ground soft and perfect for laying out, the Buggers came out hard early, eager to avenge the loss to the Lovers in the final last season. MBB jumped out to an early 6-1 lead, they looked and felt well on top. However, the young, energetic Lovers team clawed back the next 5 straight points to even it up at 6-a-piece. The next two points were long, hard running points with the Buggers showing that they are faster, stronger, and better looking to take half 8-6.

The second half was a major struggle with neither team being able to grab the ascendancy and run away with it. The game finished with some confusion as to when the time cap had been called and the game was declared a 13-13 draw, a fitting outcome from the two top teams in the competition.
For MBB outstanding new-comers Mick and Nick ran hard and smart all night, while many players took advantage of the unusually soft fields and laid out at any opportunity.

Wet

Buggers continue on their winning way

Week 2 and the Buggers continue on their winning way. This week we
took on newly formed team UQ Passion containing a core of experienced
players with some newer players playing in their first BPL. We had 10
players available this week, due to injuries and absences. It was good
to see everyone showing up early and ready for some enthusiastic
pre-game drills. Subsequently we came out with a bang, scoring the
first few points through tough D and quick scoring on the turnovers.
It was our defensive pressure that had them in trouble. They had to
have their best players on as handlers and as such needed to take
unnecessary risks to move the disk up the field. We started off with a
man D, but mixed it up with some zone, which seemed to work fairly
effectively. We were up 8 -3 at half time and we were in danger of
taking this team too lightly. I cant remember if something was said,
or if it was just the pre-game pep talk, but we kept up the intensity
right to the end of the game.

The pink-wearing Passion came out stronger in the second half but
we re-gained control to finish the game 15 - 6 .Still things to
work on (according to our tireless leader at least). The stack in
offecnce often more closely resembled a blob which dispersed at
random in an attempt to get the disk. Something to work on.

This win puts us on top of the table, with us taking on the old
rivals - UQ lovers - in a top of the table block buster.

Nick

First game - Buggers vs DoJo

So the Buggers are off to a good start. We played a good hard game which was close all the way through. The Buggers showed some good heart during the middle section of the game to get their noses infront. Here is the account by this weeks team reporter, Alex Chaddwick.

A mixed bag of emotions surrounded the BUGGERS on Thursday night. We had Mike jumping out of his skin to play, myself pumped to regain our title that we truly deserve and a lot of level heads to take on the DOJO mob. DOJO came out firing with a real desire to nock us off. Having realized that we were up for a challenge we tightened the reigns and brought it back to even.

Having seen our desire DOJO relished this challenge and stood up to the task. After taking the half we were in cruise mode until DOJO fought back to be 10-11 down with 5 to go (according to the time clock, but not J-ray). Having battled this hard, BUGGERS were not willing to let this mob overthrow our immortal power. BUGGERS deserving victors 14-11. Mike, relieved man and boys exhausted.

Keep it real. Alex

Busting

I don't know if it is just me, or if the rest of you guys are feeling similar, but I am busting for this league to start.

I've been in the kind of mood where i go to afda.com about once a day to see if the rosters have changed. I'm writing down positional options for the team in rest breaks in lectures, I'm even reading discussion forums on aus.sport.frisbee or something.

This league needs to start so i can settle down a bit. I'm really looking forward to playing with my new and improved O team and I'm very excited about seeing the D players connect and really build some pressure on the other teams.

There are 2 new challenger teams and 2 old rival teams for us to test ourselves against. It should be great.

Mike

Season 2

Season 2 is here and the buggers are back.

We have our full list of 14 returning players from season one. There has been some internal restructuring within the team and this season should see and very consistent and competitive Moreton Bay Buggers team. The team for BPL season 2, 2007 is:

Mike Neild (Captain)
James Larkin (Vice Captain)
Adam Beu
Harry Birrell
Alex Chadwick
Nick Coote
Liam Gillion
Michael Kanowski
Dan Langen
Nandor Locher
Scott Massey
Jason Ray
Mat Ryan
Ben Worby

Welcome back boys, this should be a good one. Below is listed the draw for the league. For the first time in BPL (&DOG cup, MAL) history we have 5 teams in the competition. This great news for the league and will make this much more interesting. Games on in 2 weeks.

2007 season 2 fixtures

Game	Date	Field 1 (home)	Field 1 (away)	Field 2 (home)	Field 2 (away)	Train ing
Round 1	17/5	Lovers	Rawhide	MBB	Dojo	Passion
Round 2	24/5	Lovers	Dojo	MBB	Passion	Rawhide
Round 3	31/5	Lovers	MBB	Rawhide	Passion	Dojo
Round 4	7/6	Lovers	Passion	Rawhide	Dojo	MBB
Round 5	14/6	Dojo	Passion	MBB	Rawhide	Lovers
Round 6	21/6	Lovers	Rawhide	MBB	Dojo	Passion
Round 7	28/6	Lovers	Dojo	MBB	Passion	Rawhide
Round 8	5/7	Rawhide	Passion	MBB	Lovers	Dojo
Round 9	12/7	Lovers	Passion	Dojo	Rawhide	MBB
xRound 10	19/7	Dojo	Passion	MBB	Rawhide	Lovers

Moreton Bay Buggers – A Brief History

For those who like a bit of this kind of thing. Here is a story of
the Moreton Bay Buggers team. Thanks to our ‘law men’
Mat and Jason for their wisdom. Edited by Mike.

Nationals were held in Perth in 2000 after an 8 year break.
The last time WA hosted Australia's pinnacle of ultimate
Queensland won the (only) open division. 

Qld had not won Nationals since and Perth had not hosted
since. Flannagan suggested the Buggers name in 2000, just
prior to Seeds of Doom. The name was not universally
supported by the QLD player base.

However, we took it to Seeds as a working title, with a
vastly under strength team of rookies and journeymen,
going in seeded 6th.

Despite the outrageous odds, we won the tournament, and
the doubters back home were forced to accept the name :)

The Buggers then traveled to Nationals in 2000, they
made it all the way to the semi finals. They lost in a
light and controversial game. To lose in such circumstances
had a galvanising effect on the group and the team name stuck.
Qld had previously changed its name each year but, from 2000
forward, the best Qld could muster would rally each Nationals
under the name Moreton Bay Buggers.

Highlights of subsequent incarnations include winning a
game of soccer for the 5-6 play-off against the appropriately
named Layz-e-boys and finishing as the 3rd best Australian
team in 2003, having beaten the highly fancied
Southside (NZ won).
                       Black Buggers. Brisbane 2004

                  Buggers (white) and WiQQed B Men. Canberra 2003

In 2006, Qld sent 2 competitive open teams for the first time.
DoJo comprised much of Brisbane's middle talent whilst MBB
blooded a new generation of Qld players under the guidance of
some of the state's elite.

As preparation for 2006 Nationals, MBB entered the core of the
team in the Brisbane Premier League. With a similar demographic
as the greater team (ie. a few very experienced players and a
bucket of new blood), MBB lost a hard fought final in their
debut season. 

The following season MBB won their first BPL championship,
beating UQ's Ultimate Lovers in the final.  MBB made it back
to back premierships the following season, this time beating
DoJo in the final.

Here we are now, a tough and keen competitor in the Brisbane
Premier League. We love our current team and look forward to
getting out in our deluxe new uniforms for a while to come.

Bam Ba Lam.
                       Coffs Harbour. 2004

Final photos

Get some photos of the final game into you.















Next time hey boys!


















Most Valuable Player. Mat Ryan

Buggers at Nationals

The Moreton Bay Buggers club has had a team at Australian nationals for many years. I played in my first Buggers team at Nationals in 2003, Jason and Mat played for the Buggers at Nationals in Perth in 2000.

This year is the first year in a long time that the Buggers haven't been at Nationals. There are however some Bugger boys down in Melbourne carving up on the Firestorm team.

Our VC James Larkin
Jangles
Wet Nose
and Chaddy

Good luck and play well boys.

Bugger!

Well following an excellent season the Moreton Bay Buggers have lost the Grand Final.

It was a game of swinging momentum, and from what i'm told very exciting to watch. UQ started the game in excellent style and took a large lead of 7 to 1. The Buggers then turned it around and thanks to some quality zone defence managed to drag themselves all the way back into the game. Half was 8 -7 to UQ, the score was then 9 all getting towards time cap.

The last section of the game was full of long mistake riddled points that required one team to make the right choices and control the frisbee when they got their chances. In the past this has been the Buggers, doing the right things at the end of games, last night however UQ managed to out play the Bugs in this important aspect of the game.

Congratulations to UQ, they played well and really set up their win through both a mistake free first few points and a desperate last few points. The final score was 12 - 10 UQ.

Disappointment for the Buggers as we have been playing well for most of the season and we really had our chances to take away a win last night.

Well done to Mat Ryan for his win of the Most Valuable Player award, well deserved. Congratulations also to James Larkin (VC) and Mike Neild (C) for placing 3rd and 4th respectively in the MVP voting.

There is now a 5 week break from the BPL, they Buggers will be working on various aspects of their game, player roles, uniforms, drinking games and team structure.

Look out next season, we will be back.

The big time

In the impressive history of the Brisbane Premier league (formerly Dog Cup) no team has played in and won 3 finals in a row.

The Moreton Bay Buggers are competing in their 4th final in a row on Thursday night. The Buggers lost the first BPL final they played in to the powerful and experienced Whippet Good team. Following a dramatic restructure, the inclusion of some very new talent and working with a new leadership direction the MBB won the next 2 finals and are now poised to write a little piece of history and complete the '3-peat'.

7:30pm Thursday the 29th of March. UQ lovers V Moreton Bay Buggers. The big time.

Grand Final here we come!

Buggers win 14-13 to remain undefeated

As of 9:05pm, 15 March 2007 the Buggers enter a competition to become the BPL Premiers for the 3rd time in a row (this is our 4th final in a row) and they do so as undefeated Minor Premiers. However, if it hadn't been for some dogged determination, or as Mikey would say "Mongrel" intensity, we almost definitely would have been swept by the wayside.

The new stack worked well yet seemed to fall apart when we got on a roll. This, I think, is the nature of the stack, as it is a dynamic object that needs to continue moving down/up the field depending on the play. We need to restrict ourselves on cuts to the open side and cutting off people further down the stack. There is room for improvement and the team will perform much better over the up and coming seasons as we come to terms with our individual positions, strengths and weaknesses.

Next week we have a chance to rest and reflect. Use it. Michael had some good advice in that we all have one thing in last nights performance to be proud of and one thing that needs some work. Ponder these two aspects of your game over the next 2 weeks.

• Why is it that one is working so well yet the other so poorly?
  
• Why is it that you do this one thing so well and can you use this to become more proficient in the area you're lacking?

Enjoy the break Buggers. If you're new to the game (or this level of the game) start to define your playing style (a la Mat Ryan and his velcro hands) and if you're an old hat perhaps it's time to redefine your playing style for if you're not growing you're dying.

Congratulations boys on the win and enjoy a week off. Lets come out on Grand Final night a better team than last night.

Over and out,

Golddigger

Finals time!

So it's finals time already, under the new leadership of league director Jon Good things are a little different this year in the BPL. Rather than 2 or 3 long seasons there are 4 shorter seasons, each with their own finals series. The four seasons are tallied together at the end of the year to calculate an overall champion for 2007.

This first season will go a long way towards any teams interest in becoming the BPL 2007 champs.

Teams are awarded points for wins and for the number on brand new players in their teams. The Moreton Bay Buggers have 2 new players this season, Michael Kanowski and Nick Coote. At the end of the rounds the teams look like this.

2007 season 1 league table

Points	Team	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference
2	Whippett	2	0	0	2	9	89	-80
10	Dojo	6	2	0	4	59	57	2
18	Lovers	6	4	0	2	78	46	32
21	MBB	6	6	0	0	86	40	46

So we have a big preliminary final this Thursday against the UQ Lovers team. It will be hard fought with a week off and a ticket to the Grand Final the price.

Mike

Round 6

This week the MBB boys played with a team of 12 players, it felt like we had a
good strong sideline of support during the points and at the end of the point
when we needed some fresh legs. Chadwick showed his excellent commitment to the
team by supporting from the rain shelter with some tender leg bits. Right mate?

It was a good win in the end, 15 to 6 or so (Excuse a possible error there due
to memory disfuction). Well played by all the boys in the very wet and challenging
conditions. Highlights for me were our excellent control of the disc during zone
offense points, and the catch taken to finish the game by Ben "worst every
hangover" Worby. Baby, it was good.

Here are some words from returning player Adam Beu:

It is good to be back in blue. As my first game for buggers this season i can
definitely say that it is good to be back. I must say i was impressed with the
intensity we played throughout the game as the rain sometimes affects not only
your play but your head. I must admit that the team has definitely turned away
from the huck. This i dont mind, i know in the wet it is a hard throw and catch
but i have more confidence that we can work it up the field for a 20-30 throw
point as we have the legs. Anyway it is good to be back.

Cheers
Cripple Jangles

New skipper

I'm proud to announce that the Moreton Bay Buggers have a new Vice Captain.

James Larkin

Veteran of Moreton Bay Bug campaigns going back to early 2006/late 2005, James has been our Mr. Consistent for a long time. Regularly and effectively doing his on field job to a very high level. James now has an opportunity to use his skills and playing experience in a new capacity as a leader, and can continue to inspire his team through his example.

Congratulations James, the Buggers are a better team with you as the Vice Captain.

Good signs from the young guns

Righto so this week we played a revived Whippet Good team, reports suggest they had around 14 players; old, new and female.

On the bugger side of the coin however we were missing a fair bit of our top end leadership with Jason, Matt and Mike out for the night. Consequently our next group of leaders and the whole team as individuals had to take responsibility for themselves and for the team.

It sounds like things went well.

Here it is from the boys who were there:

James Larkin (Stand in captain)
You missed a fantastic game! We came out firing, doing what we do best. Intensity on defense. This got us a lot of turn overs which the score reflected at half, 8:2. Second half we came out a little slow and not with the intensity we had in the first half. We made some silly errors, got a little lazy and started to let them get back into the game (10:6 i believe). We took a time out, sorted ourselves out and got back to business finishing off 14:7 (or around there).

What won us the game was our defense. When we got a turn over, we stayed calm, simple cuts, easy passes and scored the point. Our stack was a lot better than last week! Much cleaner, but still could be better and will improve throughout the league.

I'm definately liking this team.

Scott Massey's top 5 Highlights:
1. There was one D point I saw from the sideline that looked like it came straight out of one of Mike's emails. Thrower looks up field for the short throw, nothing on. Winds up for the huck but theres a hand in the way. Tries to dump back but the dump's covered. Swilly high release on 9
to noone in particular gets D'd by the nearest Bugger.
2. Nandor's one-handed backwards half-pike reverse somersault grab to pull in a floaty hammer
3. That patient upwind zone O.
4. Big intensity
5. Some extremely solid leadership from James rounds it out.

I'm proud of our effort and enthusiasm boys, congratulations to all who played their best and help to lead our team constructively.

Mike

Blue Buggers

This weeks game welcomed the official arrival of the brand new Moreton Bay Buggers playing strip. The delicious royal blue shirts were out in force with 12 of the Buggers doing their thing in the shinny Patagonia attire.

In my opinion the new shirt design with revitalised crustation and stylishly placed team name had more to do with our win than our questionable offensive stack did this week.

Thanks to Matty Ryan for style and design contributions and to Wet Nose for his logistical and international communication prowess. Well done boys, and well done all you other boys for looking the goods.

Word on the street is that 2007 may yet hold more surprises in uniform and merchandise advancements for the current gun team of the comp.

Keep your eyes peeled for any Buggers in your area.

Mike

Round 3 - Hang on for a win

Round 3 was a challenging week, we were understrength due to the international travellers and dedicated family men that we have on our team. Regardless we managed to finish with a 3 point win over the DoJo team who were struggling with numbers also.

It was a good effort from the players who had to work hard all night. I've been thinking about our man on man defense, and I think it is very good and effective when we have the energy and intensity to make it work.
If we are tired or just not running hard for some reason then it becomes pretty dangerous and open.

Exciting things from last round for me were: the early signs of leadership that I noticed from a few members of the team. Positive for the future of the MBB. Also Chadwick had his best game of Frisbee so far (in my opinion), very reliable with the Frisbee and very effective playing on the wing against the zone defense.

Nice work boys. Looking forward to getting the numbers back up for this weeks game. UQ.

Mike

BPL Season 1 - 2007

Buggers 15 d UQ Lovers 7.

14 Buggers attended to back up a successful conclusion to the 2006 season, after back to back Premierships.

Returning for another season:
Mike Neild - Captain
Jason Ray
Mat Ryan
Harry
Nandor
Massey
James
Wetnose
Chaddy - Injured (Thigh?)
Jangles - Injured (Ankle)
Dan

And welcome to 3 new players who look like they have plenty of offer this season.
Nick - Recent UQ graduate from Johns College.
Carlos - Carlos, from Bogota, Colombia.
Mick - Also UQ graduate

Well done on the win. It was 4 all, then it was 8 - 4 at half time (goodrun). Then we won 15 - 7. I think we out ran them as much as we out playedthem. It was a good start, we have some things to sort out.

New boys,Carlos, Mick, Nick, Welcome. Old boys, g'day. Chadwick and Jangles, you bothcome down to the field and supporting your team while you are injured, thatis the kind of action that makes us the best team in this competition. Welldone. Looking forward to getting you blokes back on the field.

This one is important to me. 75% of this team played their first BPL in thepast 2 or 3 leagues. Most of us are only just coming out of being 'new', weare all still learning, we are all still improving. We have to work togetherto get better as a group and as individuals. We have all made mistakes onthe field, we all will again, most of us did tonight. I did. When you aretalking to your team mates, do it considering the above please.Be excited, be loud, be desperate, expect and request effort and intensityfrom your team mates. Do it with positivity. Yell TO your team mates not ATyour team mates. First game .....

Moreton Bay Buggers

Moreton Bay Buggers
Brisbane's premier team 2006.