Up the BUML Round 5 - Your Red Headed Step-Child

We've decided to let JdR out of the Room of Retirement a bit early this week, to give folks the weekend to consider his ravings and get them out of their systems before they take to the field on Monday night (weather permitting). Let's see what he's got.

Bermuda Triangle vs Heroes - Griffith 1

We’re dubbing this game the "Battle of the Inbreds", as most of the players on Bermuda are related to at least one other player on the team, and it’s there’s a lot of brotherhood and sisterhood on the Heroes (plus that Carl and Mike bromance stuff (I don’t know why we bother putting comment-bait out there for them like that, they’ll comment on anything). While on form the Heroes are looking the goods, we reckon this is the week that Bermuda are going to topple the applecart and come up with the win in a close one.

JdR: Bermuda by 1
Dstrel: Bermuda by 3 (Geoff).

Griffith Go-Go’s vs Griffith Oh Yeahs – Griffith 2

We might be slightly biased here in the BUB Room of Retirement, but we’re declaring this one the MATCH OF THE ROUND. There’s a dozen names we could offer for this game – the Generation Gap (yes it’s the 2010 gang from Griffith verses their 2011 recruits), the Study with the Buddy, the Bone with the Stone … but we’ll settle for Go Goh Yeah. A lot of this game will come down to how the more experienced ladies on the Go-Go's contain the mobility of the Oh Yeah lasses. On the guy-side, its really about the trash-talk.

JdR:Impossible to tip.
Dstrel: O Yeahs by 2

Mellow Yellow vs Discheads – Griffith 3

We haven’t talked much about the Mellow Yellow’s Dave combo this season, and I’m not sure why as they are truly stars within the firmament. Dave B, Dave C, Dave the Barman, and of course FluxieDave, RobDave and CarlaDave. When it clicks, then it clicks. At my house, we hold the name Dave very close to our hearts, but that’s mostly because of the Far Better Half’s long-standing passion for Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters. Holy crap has it really been 20 years since ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’? This is not the tangent it seems to be, as most of Mellow Yellow were moshing like lunatics when this came out, and will no doubt have marked the anniversary of Kurt’s death over the last few days. So we’re tipping the D’s (who’re more soft rock than grunge) to take this one.

JdR: Discheads by 4
Dstrel: Discheads by 3 (Mellow Yellow are under-performing due to nightmares of past Div 1 experience.

Disciples vs QUTies – Annerley 3A

The QUTies got a big scare last week, and we don’t mean the sight of Trevor rubbing various parts of his body. New team the Griffith Oh Yeahs gave the tie-dyed terrors a bit of their own athletic medicine last week, but the managed to escape with a one-point win. Meanwhile, the Disciples have continued to spread the word of Ultimate and are scoring lots of points. A challenging one to tip, but we’re going with the

QUTies by 1
Dstrel: Disciples by 1.

Wuxi vs Plastic Scourgery – Annerley 3B

We haven’t mentioned Kaitlin yet in our match previews this season. So lets just lunge in now - she’s going to win this game for her team, singlehandedly. Meanwhile, we are still trying to work out who’s the Fonzie on the Plastic Scourgery team these days. It used to be Stu, which of course made May the team’s Pinky Tuscadero. Dusty seems to be trying to shed his Pottsy image with a hairstyle stolen from the Tokyo Shock Boys.

Wuxi by 4
Dstrel: Wuxi by 6 (should be well rested!).

Tsunami vs Hammertime aka WTH – Annerley 5A

While there has been talk on the grass, the BUB is once again proud to present an on-line scoop! Hammertime are transforming, bit like Optimus Prime who’s also got a thing for red and combat decks, into WTH – not a vowel-less WiTH, but really the acronym for What The Huck!. There you have it. Anyhoo, this game will be a biggie for both teams, with both improving their combos rapidly as the season progresses. But after rolling the admittedly Nationals-affected Baby Chimis last week, our tip is

Hammertime/WTH by 5
Dstrel: Tsunami by 3.

Baby Chimis vs Starlight – Annerley 5B

Starlight are doing it tough this season, but seem to be having fun in doing it. The Baby Chimi’s will have to first recover from Peta’s housewarming.

JdR: Chimis by 6
Dstrel: Chimis by 10.

Dyspnoeics vs Poachers – UQ 7A

These are two very good teams with what’s developing into a great rivalry. Can they turn this into a very good game? A lot will be on the shoulders of Captains ‘Sauce and Blacklock, who will no doubt be matching up for everyone point. In fact, let us just compare these two. Dancepower – huge advantage to Blacklock. Digestivesystem – definite advantage to Mansauce who will consume anything. ITskills – advantage Blacklock, although Mansauce does update his Facebook status more often. Facialhair – advantage Mansauce there, although it is not like he wears it well. Are we done giving attention to these two? Yes we are but there’s always room in the comments. On the field we think it will be the

Dyspnoeics by 3
Dstrel: Dyspnox by 5.

Ghost Who Walks vs Agent Orange – UQ 7B

Don’t take the lysergic acid diethylamide before this game, as the mash up of flailing purple and orange may cause outbreaks of psychodelica not seen at UQ since Buzz was an undergrad. This is a big game as these two teams have been mostly undefeated near as we can tell from the Room of Retirement. Luke AA and gang must be credited for their rapid advancement in skill and on-field organisation, and they may be able to take it up to their more fancied rivals, partly at least due to El Presidente Gav’s distraction in the form of taking it up to his local Councillor and the burdens of the Heroes Ultimate Club becoming an incorporated entity. This is a toughie for the punter, particularly look at the matchups between Vanessa and Alana for AO and Gemma, Julie and Nat for the GWW, but with some Nationals players back on deck and rejuvenated this week, we’ll have to tip

Agent Orange by 1.
Dstrel: AO by 2