Brisbane Premier League - Preview

Another year, another Brisbane Premier League (or MAL or DogCup - whatever takes your fancy).

Thanks to the hard work of Dandy Andy Lankowski the BPL kicks of on February 2nd (Groundhog Day for those who didn't know).

This year there are four teams again:

Reigning Premiers "Whippet Good", captained by Sean Flanagan

Runners up "Dojo Mojo", captained by Steve Cameron

UQ's "Ultimate Lovers", captained by Matthew Boevink

New team "Moreton Bay Buggers", captained by myself, Rueben Berg

This year sees a bit of a shake up of the teams. Big City, champions earlier in 2005 are no more and have been replaced by the "Moreton Bay Buggers". The Buggers team have a long history of Ultimate in Brisbane - the Bugs have been the premier QLD team at Nationals for the last 6 years and will this year also be competing in the National Ultimate Frisbee League (NUFL). Although the make-up of the team is not the same as the team which will compete at NUFL and Nationals, they will still be a force to be reckoned with. The line up includes: Mike Nield, Jonathon Potts, Mat Ryan and Jason Ray. In my unbiased opinion, I think they will romp it in :-)

Ultimate Lovers have been bolstered this year with the star signing of Al Don, who has left Dojo Mojo, and the continuation of John McNaughton's contract (some might say the loss of Rueben Berg has also bolstered them, but those people are cruel!). Along with the batch of up and coming players and international ring-ins, the Lovers will always push any team to their limit.

Dojo Mojo should have a fairly similar line up to last year but the loss of Al Don will hurt them. They may be inspired though by their desire to take part in Nationals this year.

Whippet Good will be picking up some players from Big City and also those players keen on playing for the QLD Masters team at the World Ultimate Club Championships to be held in Perth later this year. Never underestimate those wily old blokes!

That's all for now, hope to have some scores and game summaries up after the season kicks off.