Youch!

This week we played against the UQ Passion team. The now clear league leading UQ Passion team.

They beat us good. In fact I can't remember being beaten that badly in the BPL for a long time.

We just didn't control the frisbee on offense, UQ did, and that was the main theme of the game.

We are a new team this season and we will continue to work ourselves out over the season. We're looking forward to many new challenges.

Speaking of challenges this competition is great. On the other field the Heroes knocked off the Cobra team is a 1 pointer. What this means is that after 3 weeks there are 5 teams all within 2 competition points of each other fighting it out for the bottom 2 semi final places.

I know its only the start of the season however I get the feeling that its going to be really hard to get into the Semi finals this season. It has been tough the last couple of leagues because all five of the teams have been great, however with 7 teams capable of winning games this season its actually a pretty short list who get in. Yikes!

I was actually thinking that in order to get really good this season we might need to start doing some training. I wonder if we are approaching the stage when teams are going to need to train regularly to be able to win this competition. Not this league I think, however it would change the success of the Buggers and most teams if they were to do two sessions a week.

We're looking forward to next week already.

The begining, again.

Only once in the 7 years and 19 seasons has a team won the BPL season more than 2 seasons in a row.
(Full records can be found a the dog-cup yahoogroups site under data base)

This season the Moreton Bay Buggers are looking to the be second group of men to achieve the three-peat.

I love the start of a BPL season. The potential, the new tactics, the new team list, the fear and excitement and this league the new teams.

This season's MBB team is fairly different to last seasons. Five long time Buggers are not playing with us for various reasons and four new and returning Bugs are on the team. We will have to change the way we play in order to suit our new playing list. We still do a few things the same though and last night was a good example of this.

We had a great game against the brand new and very exciting Slamtown Flatball Club. The really exciting thing about the Gold Coast team is that prior to last nights game we know very little about them. We know some of their players, we did a little scouting in their first game against the Cobra however they were an unknown.

It was quite difficult deciding on a defense use and even harder to workout match ups on the line. I was very impressed with the general standard of play by all the individuals on the Gold Coast team and I expect they will get better as they adjust to playing with each other and playing against stiff opposition.

The game was very tight for the first half with the Slamtown up by one and the game on serve. In the second half we found a better fit defensively and won some points in typical Bugger action through one on one block and aggressive throws to the endzone.

The final score was 15 to 10 Buggers which included a 8 points to 2 second half.

A good start to the season. A season which we are looking forward to as a real challenge.