Season 2 of the BPL is still a month and a draft league away from beginning. Despite this fact and due to my high levels of excitement for the coming competition and for the top blokes I get to play with I'm proud to present the 2010, season 2 Moreton Bay Buggers.
#13 Stuart Austin
#88 Buzz Burwell
#23 Alex Chadwick
#24 Tim Ferguson
#69 Oscar Hernandez
#13 Tim Johnson
#4 Nathan Lindsay
#12 Trevor Lovering
#1 Michael Neild (C)
#20 Graham Prickett (VC)
#77 Manuel Ramirez
#71 Anthony Ross
#15 Simon Statham
#8 Benjamin Worby
There are a few comments I'd like to make about this team.
Firstly a big thank you and best wishes to Spinner, Didems and Fluxy who are departing from the team after the first season this year. These guys have been excellent contributors to our team and we'll miss them.
Spinner and Dids are both off on overseas missions. Spinner to have a holiday adventure and Dids to make a difference in East Timor with some army work - classic hey?
Spinner played 6 seasons with the Bugs and won 3 championships.
Didems played 3 seasons with the Bugs and won 2 championships.
Fluxy is taking a season off and firing up the continued DIV2 dominance of Mellow Yellow.
Fluxy played 2 seasons with the Bugs and won a championship.
Thanks for your efforts boys.
There are 4 additions to the team for next season.
After 2 season away from the BPL Alex 'Chady' Chadwick is back on board for his 11th season in Buggers colours.
As is customary we have at least 1 BPL rookie on the list. Nathan will hopefully be fired up for the big time after a season out at the UQ social league, and a quick crash course in open ultimate in the draft league. I'm sure he'll be a great addition as he treads the well worn path of a first season BPL player on our team. He is roughly the 33rd BPL rookie to start their top level fris with the Buggers.
New to the country but not the art of Frisbee Oscar Hernandez joins the Buggers and brings our Colombian content to 2. Oscar seems to be a fast moving handler - a new concept for Moreton Bay Buggers teams. It will be interesting to see how he fits in to the team.
After years in the wilderness generously bringing his frisbee wisdom to the savages of the BPL Chris 'Buzz' Burwell returns to civilisation on the Buggers team.
The new team looks nicely balanced with a mix of old and young, cutting and throwing, new to the group and well worn bugs. I'm confident that this Moreton Bay Buggers team will be a force to be reconed with in season 2 of the BPL.
I'm eagerly anticipating the announcements of the other teams in the competition as there is often room to move in the off season and 2010 should be no different.
Thursday, 24 June 2010
Monday, 14 June 2010
Season 1 2010 - Bugger!
Season 1 2010 has been a great season for many reasons.
I've spoken about some of them here on this blog, and the high level of activity within the BPL blogosphere tells the rest of the story.
Although it pains me to say it one of the exciting aspects of this season is that it does see two 'new' teams in the grand final game. I say 'new' with the with recognition that UQ has been in many finals before just not recently with this team. The historical pattern of Moreton Bay Bugger teams, and to a lesser extent Dojo teams being present in the final game of the season has ended.
After 11 grand final appearances in a row the Buggers are on the side line during the last big week. It means I have to take my boastful, arrogant and completely accurate slogan of "Every season - Every final" off this blog, and much more importantly two exciting teams are going to fight out a final in a fresh new way.
A healthy competition is one which has multiple teams competing for the top spots, and this season there are a lot of different ways the finals series could have shaped up. In the BPL of 2010 it is an achievement to even qualified for the finals series.
The 2010 MBB team has been a great team to be on and the season has been a very enjoyable experience. The season was disrupted with 5 of our players spending some weeks overseas at different times. In the face of personnel changes and the diversity of opposition, we have battled with attempting to redesign the way that we play offense and defense. In a season of league wide close games we have been involved in 3 draws and maybe 2 or 3 other games with 1 point finishes. Hard to credit really.
In the wake of some of our central players - Jason, Jangles, Nick, Nandor and George - leaving the team new players have grown as players. One of Queensland's proud Aussie Thunder representatives Trevor Lovering has had an excellent season for a young man. Andrew 'Diddums' Ogilvie has moved from a rookie type player into a proper BPL weapon who spend the season bailing us out on long and high throws on both O and D. Our newest editions Ryan Flux and Tim Johnson have made great strides in utilizing their natural talents to become important aspects of our team.
This season also had us dusting off some champion Buggers from the past with former MBB nationals team captain Tim Ferguson and long time Bugger servant Tony Ross joining the team. We love have a couple of handlers from the old school on Bug teams and these two blokes fill that label in their own distinct ways.
The rest of us ran around and got the job done with a special mention for Graham 'Special G' Prickett who admirably took the captaincy job for the whole business end of the season.
Season 1 of 2010 has been very enjoyable and very memorable for the Bugs. We are already building for season 2 and feel like this will be another excellent year for the Moreton Bay Buggers
Best of luck to the Cobra and Passion teams for next weeks final. I hope it is high quality, feisty, respectful and a top representation of what has been one of the best BPL seasons so far.
Mike
I've spoken about some of them here on this blog, and the high level of activity within the BPL blogosphere tells the rest of the story.
Although it pains me to say it one of the exciting aspects of this season is that it does see two 'new' teams in the grand final game. I say 'new' with the with recognition that UQ has been in many finals before just not recently with this team. The historical pattern of Moreton Bay Bugger teams, and to a lesser extent Dojo teams being present in the final game of the season has ended.
After 11 grand final appearances in a row the Buggers are on the side line during the last big week. It means I have to take my boastful, arrogant and completely accurate slogan of "Every season - Every final" off this blog, and much more importantly two exciting teams are going to fight out a final in a fresh new way.
A healthy competition is one which has multiple teams competing for the top spots, and this season there are a lot of different ways the finals series could have shaped up. In the BPL of 2010 it is an achievement to even qualified for the finals series.
The 2010 MBB team has been a great team to be on and the season has been a very enjoyable experience. The season was disrupted with 5 of our players spending some weeks overseas at different times. In the face of personnel changes and the diversity of opposition, we have battled with attempting to redesign the way that we play offense and defense. In a season of league wide close games we have been involved in 3 draws and maybe 2 or 3 other games with 1 point finishes. Hard to credit really.
In the wake of some of our central players - Jason, Jangles, Nick, Nandor and George - leaving the team new players have grown as players. One of Queensland's proud Aussie Thunder representatives Trevor Lovering has had an excellent season for a young man. Andrew 'Diddums' Ogilvie has moved from a rookie type player into a proper BPL weapon who spend the season bailing us out on long and high throws on both O and D. Our newest editions Ryan Flux and Tim Johnson have made great strides in utilizing their natural talents to become important aspects of our team.
This season also had us dusting off some champion Buggers from the past with former MBB nationals team captain Tim Ferguson and long time Bugger servant Tony Ross joining the team. We love have a couple of handlers from the old school on Bug teams and these two blokes fill that label in their own distinct ways.
The rest of us ran around and got the job done with a special mention for Graham 'Special G' Prickett who admirably took the captaincy job for the whole business end of the season.
Season 1 of 2010 has been very enjoyable and very memorable for the Bugs. We are already building for season 2 and feel like this will be another excellent year for the Moreton Bay Buggers
Best of luck to the Cobra and Passion teams for next weeks final. I hope it is high quality, feisty, respectful and a top representation of what has been one of the best BPL seasons so far.
Mike
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