Up Yer BUML – Round 8 Preview: This Game Respects Big Moves

Borag Thungg BUMLettes! Alas for JdR the Mighty, time is short for this week’s preview. So we’ll see what tricks we can use– not for nothing are we known as JdR the Volumniously Brief!

Division 2

Tsunami vs The Disc-iples – Griffith 3
Tsunami have only lost one game this season. The Disc-iples have yet to root out the traitor in their midst. We’re tipping the big waves.

What the Huck? vs Griffith Oh Yeahs – Griffith 2
What the Huck have had a see-saw of a season, but this makes a change from sitting on one of those wombats on springs. Oh Yeah’s remain winless but are scoring regularly – averaging 8 points a game – suggesting that while they can score, their issues are turnovers and defence. Abe is a poozer. We’re tipping the little lambs with a lot to learn and saying What the Huck?

Db: WTF by 10

Griffith Go-Go’s vs QUTies – Griffith 1
When these teams met back in Round 2, the QUTies won convincingly 14-7. Of course, Trevor wasn’t in a relationship then, according to Facebook and in concert with our desperate need to seem connected. Will this make any difference? Not to our tipping, where we feel obliged to tip the Go-Go’s.

Db: Draw

Agent Orange vs Baby Chimis - Annerley 3B
This looks like being the closest match of the round, although perhaps its just because we here at the BUB keep talking up the Chimis, which is probably crazy given that Arrlann is all married now we hear and is probably quitting Ultimate and staying home with his pipe, newspaper and smoking jacket. This is how we coincidentally how we envisage the home life of Agent Orange captain Gavin, although with more Heroes Club bunnies waiting his every beck and call. Imagination is wonderful, isn’t it? Anyway, we tip the Orange.

Db: AO by 3

Ghost Who Walks vs Starlights – Annerley 5B
The GWW are a highly disciplined team who thumped a psyched up Griffith Go-Go’s last week with a combination of firm zone defence featuring big guys at the front and back, with blistering female driven offense. Hence, another big battle for the Starlights as they continue their inaugural season. Its always tough being the new team on the block – we’ve all been there. Our tip remains with the folks who boogie through the jungle in their purple suits.

Db: GWW by 10

Division 1
As with any piece of work, when you’re running late, you add to the word count by cutting and pasting from Wikipedia – so lets do this for Division 1.

Bermuda Triangle vs Heroes – Annerley 5A
The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where number of aircraft and surface vessels allegedly disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Popular culture has attributed these disappearances to the paranormal or activity by extraterrestrial beings (like Sam S). Meanwhile, the Heroes are a product of Bowie’s Berlin period, and while not a huge hit at the time (like Guarin), has gone on to become one of his signature tunes. Our tip – Heroes.

Db: by 1 (spirit score 10, both teams)

Mellow Yellow vs Dyspnoeics – Annerley 3A
Mellow Yellow got a win last week, and is a song and 1966 single release by Donovan. The song was rumored to be about smoking dried banana skins, which was believed to be a hallucinogenic drug in the 1960s (much like Fluxie). Dyspnoeics relates to shortness of breath, or air hunger, (much like what occurs in the presence of Suze). Our tip: Dyspnoeics.

Db: Dyspnoeics by 4

Plastic Scourgery vs Discheads – UQ 7B
Plastic scourgery is a medical specialty concerned with the correction or restoration of form and function, usually via a whip or lash (wielded by a ginger lunatic such as Jack). Dickheads were a brand of matches released by Australian businessman Dick Smith in 1999 (the same year that Craig B was born). The name is a pun on the Redheads brand of matches. Our tip: Discheads.

Db: Plastic by 3

Wuxi Finger Hold vs Poachers – UQ 7A
Poachers are near as we can tell the top of the table in Division 1. Poachers engage in the illegal taking of wild plants or animals contrary to local and international conservation and wildlife management laws (such as those that protect Dan B’s). But Wuxi Finger Hold have also pulled off some big wins this season, much like Po (or Julz) in the movie Kung Fu Panda. Our tip: Poachers.

Db: Poachers by 1