In 2008 the Moreton Bay Buggers are proud to present their playing teams. The Messy Buggers and the Slippery Buggers.
Messy Buggers
MIKE - Moreton Bay Bugger since 2003 at Nationals. Club captain for the past 6 BPL seasons. Receiver, however in this league i'm sure i'll continue to bother Jason by coming back under for short passes.
JASON (JRay) - MBB since Queensland first called themselves Buggers (2000?) Has played in every bugger team in the BPL (7 leagues). Handler, big
backhand, passionate competitor.
NANDOR - MBB stalwart for the last 6 seasons, big mark, good use of the frisbee. Will play as a handler and middle/popper.
MICKA (The Vicar) - 3rd season as a Bugger this league. New to the game, runner and catcher. Will get a lot of tough match ups on D during the league.
GRAHAM (Special G) - a Queensland and Bugger hero from way back, Special is playing his second season back after some time in Victoria. Downfield cutter and occational handler i think.
STEVE - After an orthodox introduction to our sport (steve played his first BPL without spending anytime in the mixed/intermediate
leagues) Steve is back and keen. Steve is young, tall and athletic.
WET NOSE - A real Bugger at heart, Wet Nose will be a key note cutter on the Messy team. Into his 3rd year of Frisbee now after playing at Nationals and NUFL in 2007.
SPINNER - "Mike i had an accident, stacked my skate board, 6 stitches." "I think i'm going to get the cap put on my tooth made out of gold" "I've been talking to the girl, the Gold Tooth (GT) is looking good" "Yeah long live the GT, i just close my mouth whenever I walk past the boss" - Meet Spinner.
GEORGE - One of our three brand new Buggers on the Messy this for this league. George is just screaming out for a good nick name but i can't quite work it out yet. The man is very fast across the ground, knows how to go and get the frisbee, and doesn't talk about it much. I reckon we'll get a good nick name together for him before this league is done.
REESE - Played his first Frisbee at Kelvin Grove State College then progressed into the YUFL and now is jumping right in with the big boys.
DAN (Nugget) - is the third rookie on the Messy Buggers list. He has been playing in the YUFL for a while and is now ready for take on the BPL, looking forward to seeing how he makes the transition.
Slippery Buggers
JAMES - Club vice captain and captian of the Slippery team for this league. James has been with the Bugs since we started playing in the BPL.
MANUEL - newish Bugger playing in his second BPL season, Manuel come all the way from Bogotá, Columbia. Very versatile, Manuel will handle and cut down field at different times, knows his way around a frisbee.
JOSH - another new Bugger. This will be Josh's second time playing with the big boys in the BPL. Josh has been training a bunch in preparation for Nationals and the Buggers title defense. Tall, fast and knows how to cut, Josh will get onto the end of a bunch of stuff in the endzone i suspect.
JANGELS - After 2 nationals, 3 Unigames, some NUFL experience and 4? leagues as a Bugger Jangles will take a large role on this team.
BEEJ - Our English import playing his second season with the Buggers. Beej as been smashing it up at Nationals training and I expect some big things from his this league.
NICK - A quiet achiever and stalwart performer for our club. Nick is one of the most accomplished all round players in the competition and will continue to cut and throw damagingly this season. A real foundation of this Slippery team.
FELIX - Every teams needs a US import and Felix is our man. New to the city and to our game, Felix will play his first season of the BPL for the Buggers (1 of 6 potential rookie of the year candidates playing for our club in season 1). Felix holds the shared record for top attendance at Firestorm training for 2008, he will continue to improve during the season.
NOTTY - 1 of only 2 women who play up in this open competition, and 1 of only 5 QLDs picked to represent Australian at the upcoming World Championships in Vancouver. Notty plays as a handler for the MBB club.
DAMIAN - Returning to Frisbee after a few years break Damian will play in his first top level open comp with the Slippery team. Damian shows great restraint and poise with the frisbee and should be a good addition to our club.
CHADDY - Playing in his 3rd? season for the Buggers Chaddy is an endzone bandit from way back, the man loves to go down there and take a big grab. Chaddy is focused on getting fit and smashing it up this season. Chaddy is also yet to register on the afda.com site (James just do it for him).
ERIK - Hailing from NZ and Capalaba Erik is another of our 6 rookies to the BPL. Erik is a big unit and has clearly spent a fair bit of time on the Fris, he will play in front and behind the disc for the Slippery team i expect.
Righto so there are our teams, 11 Messy and 11 Slippery Buggers. Games start tomorrow, i'm looking forward to seeing how we all go.
Mike
