Fair trade

Field 1 sideline, score tied at 5 all.

M. Neild: No Burwell tonight.
S. Flanagan: Fatty isn't here either.
M. Neild: Oh well, fair trade.
S. Flanagan: No its not.


And so the Buggers and Dojo resumed their rivalry that is nearly as old as the competition. A rivalry that is based on a mutual competitive spirit, shared respect, humour and a slice of simmering animosity.

The Dojo and the Bugs have faced off in the BPL since the winter of 2006. The teams have contested 4 Grand finals and together can boast 11 of the 24 championships and 12 MVP recipients. It has been a running contest with the Dojo taking the majority of the honours over the last 2 years.

Thursday night's game was no different. After trading points down the gentle wind for the first 10 points of the game the Dojo scored the first upwind point to break the tie. The Dojo was having success using their zone defence and the Bugs were forced to make a lot of passes to get down field. Conversely the Bugger man on man set up produced a few nice blocks and challenged the Dojo to take on the challenge and throw to marked players.

After a few back to back points late in the Bugs managed to close the gap and both teams had the frisbee in their hands for the win during the last point after time cap. The Dojo again proved too good and took away the first game of the season by one point.

It was close all night and both teams would think there are areas for them to improve on. The defending premiers look on track for another great season and the Buggers can take heart from their competitive performance with plenty of room for improvement.

The Dojo come out on top of this close trading game, i'm sure the Bugs are already looking forward to returning the favour next round.

Spring time for the Buggers

Season 2 is upon us and the Buggers are back in business.

Suiting up this season under the Big Bug are:

Bug 13	#22 Adam Beu	13th season
Bug 64	#88 Buzz Burwell	5th season
Bug 71	## David Campbell	2nd season
Bug 62	#24 Tim Ferguson	6th season
Bug 63	#24 Tim Johnson	6th season
Bug 52	#12 Trevor Lovering	8th season
Bug 66	#5 Rob Lowe	4th season
Bug 72	## Brenton Mottershead	2nd season
Bug 25	#20 Graham Prickett	7th season
Bug 43	#50 Anthony Ross	9th season
Bug 11	#33 Mat Ryan (C)	13th season
Bug 74	## Jack Tudor	2nd season
Bug 75	## Timothy Webb	2nd season

The Bugger team for season 2 2012 is fairly similar to the season 1 incarnation. 12 members return to the action from season 1 and the addition of 7 season Bug legend Graham 'Special G' Prickett rounds out at 13 players.

This Bugs team is the most experienced in Buggers history with 79 total seasons with the Buggers and an average number of seasons with the team of 6. Time will tell whether this experience together helps the Buggers show cohesion on the field.

Team captain Mat and Jangles both rack up their 13th seasons and lead the team both on the field and in team culture. Encouragingly 4 of the 5 first season Bugs have returned for their second season and league rookies David Campbell, Jack Tudor and Tim Webb will all look to have fast starts to the seasons after the steep learning curve as a BPL rookie.

The back bone of the Moreton Bay Buggers this season will be the large batch of blokes playing their 4th though 9th seasons. The challenge for the Buggers in season 2 of 2012 will be to make the most of their shared experience and play to the team plan for each new opponent.

The Buggers are fired up for their 17th season in the BPL and are confident these are the men to drag the team back to the top of the competition.

Season 1 2012

Another exciting BPL season and another disappointing exit for the Moreton Bay Buggers.

The Semi final bracket has become a major stumbling block for the Bugs over the past couple of years, with loses to both the Gold Coast and the Dojo stinging our collective memory.

Congratulations to both the top teams in the competition for maintaining a high level of play over the last 4 seasons.

Highlights for the Buggers this year have been the great work of our rookies who have made some solid steps forward and are now beginning to look comfortable at the high speed of the BPL.

Also well done to the Captain Ryan, it is not easy to run a team and play at your best all season. Mat obviously did a fair job of both taking the Buggers into the Semi finals and being voted as the Most Valuable Player in the competition for the second time. Mat was the MVP of season 12 back in Autumn 2007.

Well done on the season Bugs. Season 2 is a couple of months away and the Buggers will be back hoping to take their season a little further as they battle it out in the 25th season of the Brisbane Premier League.

Bugs Vs Blitz - round 5

The Buggers had their first look at second season new comers Blitz last night. The result was a fairly convincing 15 to 6 for the Bugs.

Blitz were always going to do it tough with their so called best players absent from the game and a total team of 7 blokes available on the night. The game started well for the Bugs with the first 5 points going their way on the back of some tight zone defence and short field turnovers allowing for easy goals.

The story of the game did not continue in that fashion all night. Blitz showed impressive character to not become mentally defeated and managed to find avenues to score goals against the Buggers zone. League veteran Stew Mclashan can take much responsibility for the resilience of the Blitz team as he anchored the offence and continued to rally the team.

Many of the Blitz newcomers looked much improved after a season training with Firestorm. Consistency proved to be the main weakness of a handful of young players on Blitz. With more time together, and more time playing at a high level these players will be able to produce their best more regularly and the Blitz team will look significantly more dangerous.

The Buggers were too strong last night though and took the opportunity to work with their rookies in the name of strengthening the team for the second half of the season.

A good win for a middle of the table Moreton Bay Buggers, and some heartening signs for the Blitz team who would dearly love to be able to compete with their full roster.

The Bugs in 2012

The Moreton Bay Buggers are proud to introduce their season 1 team for 2012.

B11	#22 Adam Beu	12th
B62	#88 Buzz Burwell	4th
B69	## David Campbell	1st
B60	#24 Tim Ferguson	5th
B59	#35 Ryan Flux	3rd
B61	#24 Tim Johnson	5th
B50	#12 Trevor Lovering	7th
B64	#5 Rob Lowe	3rd
B70	## Brenton Mottershead	1st
B41	#50 Anthony Ross	8th
B9	#33 Mat Ryan (C)	12th
B71	## Luke Splatt	1st
B72	## Timothy Webb	1st

The old firm is back for the Bugs in 2012 with Buzz, Ferg, TJ, Trevor, Rob, TRoss and Lunchbox Ryan all returning after 2 years together in the Bug red and white. Mat continues as the Buggers captain in 2012.

There are some exciting developments for the team this season. It is great to welcome back to the Moreton Bay Buggers Adam Beu and Ryan Flux. Jangles returns for his twelfth season with the Buggers after spending a couple of years helping to develop the Heroes into a semi final team. Fluxy rejoins the Bugs after 3 seasons off.

Special mention needs to be made of the 4 new men to be a part of Buggers history. The 69th - 72nd players to take the field for the Bugs in the Brisbane Premier League. Brenton Mottershead joins the Buggers after stepping up to the BPL with the Bandidos. David Campbell, Luke Splatt and Tim Webb will make their BPL debut with the Buggers next Thursday night. We wish them all the best as they take on the challenge of our excellent open league.

It will be another exciting year for the Brisbane Premier League and the Buggers are enthusiastic to get down to business. Its been 4 seasons without a grand final appearance. Will this be the season that heralds in the grand old days?

The Buggers are keen to find out.

Rookies, Rookies, Rookies

In the wake of an exciting new addition to the league calender - the mid year draft league, and with season 2 for 2011 looming it is a good time to talk about BPL rookies.

LD Graham's draft league provided both an opportunity for the North to show its superiority in pretty much everything, and for a good number of men to try playing up at the BPL standard for the first time.

The transition from the Mixed play in the BUML up the BPL is a challenging one for any player to make. The game is faster, the standard of play is more complex and the inter club rivalries are spicier. Some players join the league and thrive while others move on after a season or two.

The Moreton Bay Buggers have a proud tradition of finding and developing rookies for their BPL teams. The Bugs have been in the competition for 5 years in 17 seasons with 21 teams. There have been 68 Buggers over the years of which 37 have been rookies, an average of 1.8 per team.

Its important to clarify the definition of 'a rookie' for the purpose of this post and the MBB records. A rookie is a player who is new to the BPL and to BPL standard frisbee. I.e players who are competing in their first BPL but have played similar standard frisbee elsewhere are not considered rookies. Only guys who are joining the league up from BUML or lower standard have been counted as rookies on the Buggers. There have been many additional guys play their first game of BPL with the Bugs from the US, Canada, UK, Colombia and interstate, these guys haven't been counted as rookies.


In our 17th season we are excited about 4 new players joining the Buggers team, 3 of these guys are new to Open frisbee and will face all the excitement and challenge of a rookie season in the Brisbane Premier League.

The following is a list of blokes who spent their rookie year playing for the Buggers:

Winter 2006
B11 Adam Beu - 11 bug seasons - current Hero captain
B12 Alex Chadwick - 11 bug seasons
B13 Liam Gillions - 10 bug seasons
B14 Scott Massey - 5 bug seasons
B15 Matthew Morrison - 2 bug seasons
B16 Ben Worby - 8 bug seasons

Summer 2006
B18 Nick Coote - 8 bug seasons - current BUML team captain
B19 Michael Kanowski - 7 bug seasons

Season 3 2007
B21 Stephen Glen - 2 bug seasons
B22 Josh Peters - 3 bug seasons
B25 Spinner Sheppard - 8 bug seasons - current Bugger
B28 Craig Stewart - 1 bug season

Season 1 2008
B30 George Salisbury - 5 bug seasons - current Hero
B31 Reece Stewart - 4 bug seasons - current Cobra captain
B32 Daniel Strelan - 1 bug season - current Hero
B33 Felix Duvallet - 1 bug season
B34 Erik Stevenson - 1 bug season
B35 Damian Wong - 3 bug seasons

Season 2 2008
B37 Steve Timms - 1 bug season
B39 John Catarius - 1 bug season
B42 Simon Statham - 6 bug seasons

Season 3 2008
B43 Jo Dilegge - 1 bug season
B44 Doug Meikle - 1 bug season

Season 1 2009
B46 Wayne Benton - 1 bug season
B47 Rashaun Hoh - 1 bug season
B48 Ben Hutchinson - 1 bug season
B49 Jack Lilwall - 1 bug season - current Cobra
B50 Trevor Lovering - 6 bug seasons - current Bugger
B52 Andrew Ogilivie - 4 bug seasons - current Bugger
B53 Andrew Rhule - 1 bug season
B55 Jimmy Smith-Cotrell - 1 bug season
B56 Michael Watt - 2 bug seasons

Season 2 2009
B59 Ryan Flux - 2 bug seasons

Season 1 2010
B61 Tim Johnson - 4 bug seasons - current Bugger

Season 2 2011
B65 Linus Mueller - 1 bug season - current rookie
B67 Dan Webb - 1 bug season - current rookie
B68 Nick Webb - 1 bug season - current rookie


37 rookies over 5 years of Bugger teams. Some still with the Bugs, some off playing with other teams and some moved on after their sharp introduction to our great competition.

If it was easy to play in the Brisbane Premier League we wouldn't all appreciate it so much.

Good luck to all the rookies who take their first step into the BPL next Thursday night, and good luck to all the teams who will battle it out again in the excellent Brisbane Premier League.

New Look MBB for season 2 2011

There has been change in the Bug den during the off season; Oscar, Manuel and
Si have all headed back to their respective homelands, and Mike has officially hung up his cleats. So this leaves 10 players from last season and some exciting new additions

Diddums is back from his peace keeping mission in East Timor with the chocolate soldiers and keen to play for the bug again.

Peta McNaughton has pointed Linus 'the kid' Mueller in our direction after having played BUML for a season. He's been playing the mid year draft and been competing well against some BPL veterans.

Chris 'Milky' Penfold is another one of the damn pommies. He's been living in Newcastle (NSW not geordie shaw) for the last 6 months and will be moving up to Brisbane in the middle of August. He has been running triathlons recently rather than chasing plastic, so expect him to make some very long, if slightly slow cuts!!

TJ brought a few of his BUML team mates along to the mid season draft, and by some coincidence they all ended up playing on the East team. We have now added the monster Webb brothers to our roster.
Nick 'the smaller' Webb has been playing with What The Huck and is gaining some good field sense, and can bring out some layout D's when needed. Dan 'the bigger' Webb had previously just had a throw with his brother but has already shown a lot of improvement over the course of the last 4 weeks.

So the buggers continue their tradition of bringing rookies into the BPL. It's also good to see that Chris Cunliffe has started up another team for the league, hopefully this will help balance things out across the board. This will mean another exciting 7 team league this season with a great range of interesting match ups across the competition.
2 teams playing in their 17th-19th seasons,
1 team in their 5th,
2 teams in their 4th,
1 in their 2nd
and a brand new team.

Mike has now stepped down from the captaincy role but he will still be aiming to be a part of the team to provide our rookies with some coaching. 6th season stalwart Stu is stepping up into the captaincy role and Mat Ryan has become VC. As the only remaining Bugger from the very first team back in Feb 2006 Mat will be bringing some tactical talk to the team, along with the occasional "harden the f*ck up and play D" speeches!

So yeah.... quite a big change to the team this season. Its with pride and excitement that we present the Season 2, 2011 Moreton Bay Buggers:

#13 Stuart Austin (C)

#88 Buzz Burwell

#24 Tim Ferguson

#24 Tim Johnson

#5 Rob Lowe

#12 Trevor Lovering

## Linus Mueller

## Chris Penfold

#20 Graham Prickett

#40 Andrew Ogilvie

#50 Anthony Ross

#63 Spinner Sheppard

#33 Mat Ryan (VC)

## Dan Webb

## Nick Webb

Should be a great season.


Stu and Mike