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