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
5 comments:
Nice one Mike. A good prespective of the season.
The new layout of the blog looks really good too.
I did notice that the slogan is still there on the right hand side of the blog, with the "Every Season - Every Final - Plenty of Finals".
Yeah thanks Sniffer.
Good season.
I like the new blogger features, i'm not normally really into that gear but once in a while.
I can't work out how to put a line through 'every final' like JDR does on the Brisbane Blog. That's what I want to do for a little while as a let down from my slogan. I was kind of proud of that.
Congrats to the Buggers on another strong season.
Every season - Every Finals. I mean, you made the Semi's which was better than three other teams!
To put a line through, go to the html version and use "strike".
Solid - thanks Jason
Mike
Yeah great season wrap-up. Way to reflect on such a rich competition.
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