Messing it up

Last Thursday finally saw the semi finals for BPL being played. While over on field two we noticed that Lovers benefited from Dojo's traditional semi final slip up, we certainly have some more info on what went down on field one in the all Bugger clash.

The game started out with both sides playing the traditional Bugger defence of hard running person-on-person. The first few points were long and tiring and saw the 9-man Slippery go 2-1 up against the savage Messy.

Messy then got their act together and ran off 6 straight points to have a handy lead, 6-2. Slippery had some uncharacteristic errors during this period, and everything just seemed to stick for Messy. Slippery managed to stop the run by changing up to a puppy fence zone, and Messy ending up taking the half 8-3.

After the break Slippery mounted a comeback with an effective utilisation of a poachy person-on-person defence and, when the time cap expired, Messy was ahead 10-9. Messy scored the point to lead 11-9, game to 13.

Messy scored the next point to be ahead 12-9, meaning that Slippery would need to score 4 straight points to take the spot in the Grand Final. Slippery scored the next two points to get the score back to 12-11, much to the delight of the sideline that was growing courtesy of the finished Lovers-Dojo clash.

Messy then worked the disc up the field and the disc was in the hands on Damian Wong about 10 metres out from the end zone. He launched a huge hammer to Micka, who took the grab and Messy were through to the final.

Great game by both teams, lots of Buggers heart and mongrel shown, and some great plays from both sides. On the Slippery side of things, Chaddy took some great contested grabs in all kinds of traffic. And for Messy, Silent George showed that he is more than a mute, doing a huge job of minising his man's impact on the game.

Messy are looking like they may be short on numbers, due to the delayed GF meaning some Messy boys are taking off overseas.

Look for the preview of the GF on the Brisbane Ultimate Blog, and we will give you all the low down after the game.

Buggers into the BPL Final

Well, not yet, but it is going to happen. Tonight, one way or the other, come rain, hail or shine, one of the MBB teams will be in the BPL Final on 18 December 2008.

If it rains, then Messy, as undefeated minor premiers, will automatically go through, with no more weeks available to move games back a week and will play the frisbee Dojo.

If not, it will be an all Bugger semi final with Messy v Slippery on field one at Annerley, tonight 7:30pm.

More details will follow the game, but it will certainly be a clash of the titans, and will see the Buggers through to their eight consecutive final, and bidding for their fourth consecutive title.