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
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
Saturday, 1 December 2007
Spring league 2007 Champions
As I write the coveted R.C. Dog cup trophy takes pride of place in my lounge room. Thanks to the efforts of the Crusty Buggers team there is another MBB name engraved on this unique perpetual trophy.
It was a good effort by both teams this season, the Fresh Buggers had some great moments and looked to be a real powerhouse of the competition after the first few weeks. The Crusty team also started with a bang in round one when we pitted our brand new line up against the Rawhide team and come out on top.
Both teams had challenging patches through the middle section of the competition with player numbers being as issue for the Fresh squad especially. Through the final weeks of the competition i think both teams played some good frisbee and it was great to have 2 teams in the Semi final stage.
The Crusty team performed very well in our last 3 games. I think this is a lot to do with the ability of the team to play well across a whole game. We spoke a lot about focus and effort being aspects of our game the can be directly controlled. There are many components and happenings in a game of frisbee that players have limited or no control over, so its very important to make sure you do well is the aspects that you can control.
The grand final on Thursday night was a example of this. Both teams were evenly matched through the beginning stages of the game, the Crusty team just managed to stay focussed, intense and committed to our systems for longer. I think this is the major reason why we pulled away in the late stage of the second half. Steve and I did break 2 of their players in the second half of the game, however i think we were out and looking like taking it by that stage.
Highlights for me of the game were a couple of Jason's full field backhands, the impressive under cutting of Micka Kanowski (Crusty Bug Roookie of the League), that 1 massive block that Steve got in the front corner of the endzone, the consistency of our effort across the game and some of the post game talk and celebration.
"How old are you Spinner?" - "I'm 30"
"Jason?" - "Oh over 40 now"
"What about you Kanowski?" - "Yeah i'm 19." - "woah"
"Hey Steve, your still 17 aren't you?" - Looks down at the drink in his hand - "Yeah" The boys break up laughing.
That was a funny moment.
So well done teams, i hope everyone had positive experiences during the league and are looking forward to taking a little break before firing it up again in 2008.
Cheers Buggers.
It was a good effort by both teams this season, the Fresh Buggers had some great moments and looked to be a real powerhouse of the competition after the first few weeks. The Crusty team also started with a bang in round one when we pitted our brand new line up against the Rawhide team and come out on top.
Both teams had challenging patches through the middle section of the competition with player numbers being as issue for the Fresh squad especially. Through the final weeks of the competition i think both teams played some good frisbee and it was great to have 2 teams in the Semi final stage.
The Crusty team performed very well in our last 3 games. I think this is a lot to do with the ability of the team to play well across a whole game. We spoke a lot about focus and effort being aspects of our game the can be directly controlled. There are many components and happenings in a game of frisbee that players have limited or no control over, so its very important to make sure you do well is the aspects that you can control.
The grand final on Thursday night was a example of this. Both teams were evenly matched through the beginning stages of the game, the Crusty team just managed to stay focussed, intense and committed to our systems for longer. I think this is the major reason why we pulled away in the late stage of the second half. Steve and I did break 2 of their players in the second half of the game, however i think we were out and looking like taking it by that stage.
Highlights for me of the game were a couple of Jason's full field backhands, the impressive under cutting of Micka Kanowski (Crusty Bug Roookie of the League), that 1 massive block that Steve got in the front corner of the endzone, the consistency of our effort across the game and some of the post game talk and celebration.
"How old are you Spinner?" - "I'm 30"
"Jason?" - "Oh over 40 now"
"What about you Kanowski?" - "Yeah i'm 19." - "woah"
"Hey Steve, your still 17 aren't you?" - Looks down at the drink in his hand - "Yeah" The boys break up laughing.
That was a funny moment.
So well done teams, i hope everyone had positive experiences during the league and are looking forward to taking a little break before firing it up again in 2008.
Cheers Buggers.
Saturday, 17 November 2007
Another season, another party
G'day Bugger fans
So another season of the BPL is drawing to a close. The Moreton Bay Buggers club has had some highlights and some disappointments during the league. It has been great for us to enter 2 strong playing teams into the comp, and i hope to see the buggers continue to represent in future leagues.
We have 2 teams in the semi finals next week, and due to a few interesting developments the Crusty Buggers will play the Fresh Buggers in a semi final. So we are assured of having 1 of our teams in the grand final in 2 weeks time, excellent.
On Friday night, thanks to the social committee (Ben and Wet Nose), we had our end of season social night. It was a pretty good night with Buggers from both team in attendance and in pretty good form. We hit the Embassy Hotel with cheap drink deals organised and a dance floor that took a while to get going but once it did - baby, good times!
A key feature of the night was the boat race to see who would get to wear their Blue buggers strips for the semi final. A worthy award and very well contested. Racing for the crusty team were Mike, Spinner, Manuel and Nandor at anchor. The Fresh line up was Ben Worby, Beej, Carlos and Jangles at anchor. The weapon of choice was schooners of Tooweys, the stage was set.
With Notty starting the race off like a cute girlfriend in one of those 60's type aqueduct hot rod drag races the Worby monster and I were off. Using his years of experience and commitment to the discipline Ben got a lead for the freshies by 2 or 3 fingers, Spinner then put the Crusty effort into gear and made good in roads into the fresh lead. During the Columbian leg Carlos "the dark horse" pulled away again and going into the final pair of drinkers Jangles might have had 2/3 seconds and 3/4 fingers head start. Enter the Locher!
Nandor smashed down that long glass of beer like he was hucking a forehand out of a zone - quickly and accurately. That drink disappeared in impressive style and the Crusty team was victorious. Blue shirts on Thursday Crusty boys! It was all very fun and I think we all enjoyed it (after our heads stopped hurting that is).
Plenty of frisbee was talked, lots of tidy dance moves were executed and as far as i'm concerned good times were had by all. Thanks Ben and Wet Nose for getting the night sorted - it is great to get all the Buggers together for a bit of raucous action from time to time.
Thanks for a good season teams, play well in the semi this week and starting thinking about what you want to achieve with your Bugger team mates next year.
So another season of the BPL is drawing to a close. The Moreton Bay Buggers club has had some highlights and some disappointments during the league. It has been great for us to enter 2 strong playing teams into the comp, and i hope to see the buggers continue to represent in future leagues.
We have 2 teams in the semi finals next week, and due to a few interesting developments the Crusty Buggers will play the Fresh Buggers in a semi final. So we are assured of having 1 of our teams in the grand final in 2 weeks time, excellent.
On Friday night, thanks to the social committee (Ben and Wet Nose), we had our end of season social night. It was a pretty good night with Buggers from both team in attendance and in pretty good form. We hit the Embassy Hotel with cheap drink deals organised and a dance floor that took a while to get going but once it did - baby, good times!
A key feature of the night was the boat race to see who would get to wear their Blue buggers strips for the semi final. A worthy award and very well contested. Racing for the crusty team were Mike, Spinner, Manuel and Nandor at anchor. The Fresh line up was Ben Worby, Beej, Carlos and Jangles at anchor. The weapon of choice was schooners of Tooweys, the stage was set.
With Notty starting the race off like a cute girlfriend in one of those 60's type aqueduct hot rod drag races the Worby monster and I were off. Using his years of experience and commitment to the discipline Ben got a lead for the freshies by 2 or 3 fingers, Spinner then put the Crusty effort into gear and made good in roads into the fresh lead. During the Columbian leg Carlos "the dark horse" pulled away again and going into the final pair of drinkers Jangles might have had 2/3 seconds and 3/4 fingers head start. Enter the Locher!
Nandor smashed down that long glass of beer like he was hucking a forehand out of a zone - quickly and accurately. That drink disappeared in impressive style and the Crusty team was victorious. Blue shirts on Thursday Crusty boys! It was all very fun and I think we all enjoyed it (after our heads stopped hurting that is).
Plenty of frisbee was talked, lots of tidy dance moves were executed and as far as i'm concerned good times were had by all. Thanks Ben and Wet Nose for getting the night sorted - it is great to get all the Buggers together for a bit of raucous action from time to time.
Thanks for a good season teams, play well in the semi this week and starting thinking about what you want to achieve with your Bugger team mates next year.
Wednesday, 19 September 2007
Fresh air for everyone!
Welcome Buggers, new and old to the Buggers' "Fresh" squad.
Thursday night saw a good turn out with 10 players, 6 old and 4 new. It was great to see the new guys fit straight into the squad with what looked and felt like a fully functioning BPL team within a few points.
Although beaten to the half by 2 or 3 points we pushed hard and punished their zone to even the score not long after the break, finishing the game at a bittersweet draw. Robbed by 'the Foot of God' catch after the huck a few points into the game.
Personal Highlights of the game:
Beej asking permission to huck a massive forehard to Wet Nose in the endzone.
Quinn's sweet 'fully horizontal 4 feet in the air' layout to catch my swill
Two Callaghan's in one game! Nice work Jangles.
Making BPL's top zone defense took like something you'd see on Monday night.
Great game Freshies, it feels really good to play on this team.
Gold Digger
Thursday night saw a good turn out with 10 players, 6 old and 4 new. It was great to see the new guys fit straight into the squad with what looked and felt like a fully functioning BPL team within a few points.
Although beaten to the half by 2 or 3 points we pushed hard and punished their zone to even the score not long after the break, finishing the game at a bittersweet draw. Robbed by 'the Foot of God' catch after the huck a few points into the game.
Personal Highlights of the game:
Beej asking permission to huck a massive forehard to Wet Nose in the endzone.
Quinn's sweet 'fully horizontal 4 feet in the air' layout to catch my swill
Two Callaghan's in one game! Nice work Jangles.
Making BPL's top zone defense took like something you'd see on Monday night.
Great game Freshies, it feels really good to play on this team.
Gold Digger
Tuesday, 18 September 2007
New team, Old club, New players, Old system
So the MBB: Crusty Buggers had their first run around last Thursday. This team consists of some well established Brisbane players and some brand new talent.
Here at the Buggers I think we have a well refined system for taking new players and acculturating them into the tactics, and acclimatising them to the speed that works at the BPL level.
Last thursday night was a great example of this. We played a game against the Rawhide team with 3 buggers from last years team, and 4 brand new buggers (including 3 guys playing their first game of BPL). We played savage all game and won the by 11 points. I was really proud of the effort and hard running of the new blokes and of the patience and leadership of the old blokes.
It's hard not to feel good when things are going that well for you, and i'm sure all the players had a great time. I think part of the result can be attributed to a good simple system, part to effort and application, and part to luck. It all happened to be on our side in round 1.
I'm really looking forward to getting the other 5 Crusty Buggers onto the track so we can build a strong new team and continue our positive start.
Yeah Buggers!
Here at the Buggers I think we have a well refined system for taking new players and acculturating them into the tactics, and acclimatising them to the speed that works at the BPL level.
Last thursday night was a great example of this. We played a game against the Rawhide team with 3 buggers from last years team, and 4 brand new buggers (including 3 guys playing their first game of BPL). We played savage all game and won the by 11 points. I was really proud of the effort and hard running of the new blokes and of the patience and leadership of the old blokes.
It's hard not to feel good when things are going that well for you, and i'm sure all the players had a great time. I think part of the result can be attributed to a good simple system, part to effort and application, and part to luck. It all happened to be on our side in round 1.
I'm really looking forward to getting the other 5 Crusty Buggers onto the track so we can build a strong new team and continue our positive start.
Yeah Buggers!
Thursday, 6 September 2007
Bugs in my teeth
In order to spend some time talking about how good we have been, and how good we could continue to be, we went out for a night
The social committee (Ben Worby) got the thing together and it all worked out pretty bloody well.
Ben 'social committee' WorbyFirst we played some pool at a place called Qmasters. There was a 'big boys' table and a 'small boys' table. If you won you went up to the big boys, if you lost you went down to the little boys. We played paired pool with best of 3 game contests happening on the big boys table in the same time that 1 game was played at the kids table.
This me after my 'pool for beginners and chumps' coaching session from JRay. "Get your chin onto the pool Que Mike, you are bringing in an error of parallax."The winners of each rubber would afforded the right to choose the drink that the losers would purchase for both teams. The complication was that at Qmasters the pool tables are not in the licenced area, so the drink of choice was some kind of shot. Consequently the first 3 or 4 few drinks that most of the boys had were some kind of firey shot. Finished off one bottle of black sambuca that was on the shelf and had a good run at the other one. Jason was on call for work and so couldn't go too hard on the booze. Never the less the social committee had a plan, Jasons first drink was a shot of lime cordial, youch.
Anyway as you can imagine some players made out pretty well by winning a lot of games and getting a lot of drinks bought for them. It was a good fun start.
We then headed up to the Normanby where Massey was having a going away party. This turned into a big fat booze up with various members of the Brisbane Frisbee community. I had a top time.
So, thanks for the great night Ben and team, so long Massey, enjoy southern California and the girl. Thanks Chady for the photo action. I'll see you all again for another Buggers social night soon.
Mike
Thursday, 23 August 2007
The Year of the Bug
Well, well, well. Another successful Moreton Bay Buggers BPL season.
For the first time in the history of the Dog Cup/MAL/BPL there were 5 healthy and competitive teams in contention. All teams had distinct cultures and playing styles. It was a joy to have that level of variety and freshness in the league.
After a competitive and exciting regular season the Semi Finals arrived with the teams positioned like this: 1 MBB, 2 UQ Lovers, 3 DoJo, 4 UQ Passion, 5 Rawhide. With 4 players overseas and unavailable for periods of the final series the Buggers managed to scrape through 2 weeks of extreme intensity UQ final match ups. We played in our 5th Grand Final in a row and won our 3rd.
I wasn't at the Grand Final and so can't convey much information about the game. The final score was MBB by 1 point over an extremely competitive UQ Lovers team. We played the Lovers 3 times over the season with the following results: Lovers by 1, Draw, Buggers by 1. A drawn season! The Buggers just managed to make our only win of the season in the final game. These 2 teams have placed a few more stones in the bridge of rivalry that joins our 2 strong and different Frisbee clubs.
The spring league of the BPL is only 2 weeks away and the Moreton Bay Buggers are taking a page from the Lovers club and entering 2 teams into the league. The BPL will now include the MBB: Crusty Buggers and the MBB: Fresh Buggers, making this league a 6 team competition!
This spring league will be very interesting as arguably the strong team over the last year divides and grows its player base. How will the new teams play? Who will rise to control the competition? How will the playing styles of the new teams change from the established Bugger method? How will the Crusty and Fresh boys integrate 6-8 new players into the BPL? Where will these players come from?
As far as i'm concerned this is shaping up to be a very interesting Brisbane Premier League. Strap yourselves in.
For the first time in the history of the Dog Cup/MAL/BPL there were 5 healthy and competitive teams in contention. All teams had distinct cultures and playing styles. It was a joy to have that level of variety and freshness in the league.
After a competitive and exciting regular season the Semi Finals arrived with the teams positioned like this: 1 MBB, 2 UQ Lovers, 3 DoJo, 4 UQ Passion, 5 Rawhide. With 4 players overseas and unavailable for periods of the final series the Buggers managed to scrape through 2 weeks of extreme intensity UQ final match ups. We played in our 5th Grand Final in a row and won our 3rd.
I wasn't at the Grand Final and so can't convey much information about the game. The final score was MBB by 1 point over an extremely competitive UQ Lovers team. We played the Lovers 3 times over the season with the following results: Lovers by 1, Draw, Buggers by 1. A drawn season! The Buggers just managed to make our only win of the season in the final game. These 2 teams have placed a few more stones in the bridge of rivalry that joins our 2 strong and different Frisbee clubs.
The spring league of the BPL is only 2 weeks away and the Moreton Bay Buggers are taking a page from the Lovers club and entering 2 teams into the league. The BPL will now include the MBB: Crusty Buggers and the MBB: Fresh Buggers, making this league a 6 team competition!
This spring league will be very interesting as arguably the strong team over the last year divides and grows its player base. How will the new teams play? Who will rise to control the competition? How will the playing styles of the new teams change from the established Bugger method? How will the Crusty and Fresh boys integrate 6-8 new players into the BPL? Where will these players come from?
As far as i'm concerned this is shaping up to be a very interesting Brisbane Premier League. Strap yourselves in.
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