Semi Final: Dojo vs Heroes

Next up we have our master espresso drinker - no it's not Al or Coops, it's everyone's favourite Italian import - Cola!!!

Hi Dan, my grandma is an avid reader of the BUB so I’m really happy to answer your questions. Ciao nonna!

Mr Colagengo, did I pronounce that correctly?


Almost. It actually is Salvatore Francesco Godzilla Vasquez Colangelo. Currently I think that only Watto masters it.

1. You resisted a lot of pressure from recruiting agents after your first season, only
to have your face smashed in. You managed to play half the season for Dojo and
as minor premiers you face the Heroes in the first week of the finals.

What do you like about Dojo? Was it the hope of backing up with another premiership?


I have a clear memory of Mansauce saying something to that guy in Townsville and seeing him winking back just before going yokozuna on my face. Your question explains everything.

With Dojo I like the totalitarian authority of Sensei, feels like home.

Starting the season with Jules in and myself out, Dojo was taller and our score in the English test was 5 points higher so the premiership was sure.


2. You guys might even win spirit this season! Has Sensei stopped making speeches? Are you going to miss the rivalry between your team and Cobras in this finals series?

It’s more likely that Coops just hacked the website and changed the spirit score. I remember a couple of emails about that. This season Cobra is probably the best team in the Brisbane Goalty League so I think that BPL was kind of a side competition for them.

3. Goalty is supremely fun. I've heard you say a lot of nice things about the Heroes. You're even running with them in the morning! But come on!! It's time for some smack talk:

Yeah I have a cultural exchange with Heroes in the morning. They make me run and I explain them the benefits of a good cigar. Tomorrow will be a good game between pure energy and arrogant class. Like ecstasy and brandy. ipod and jukebox. Road runner and Wile E. Coyote.

Indeed. What is it with Italians and (b)romance?

Ok folks, next up we have my own blogging mentor, the one and only... (*lowers voice) Carl Behrendorfffff.

Carl, you must be a visionary. You jumped the Cobra's ship before it was even set on fire.
Now they are down and Heroes are on the way up. Did you long for finals glory in
your first season with Heroes, the way that Gary Ablett Jnr must?

Well Daniel when I first joined the Cobras we made the grand final after going close the season before. Was I the catalyst to that seasons performance? Look at the time I didn’t think so, but the beauty of hindsight is that you can put your own spin on things - so I guess you can say the reason why the cobras went down and the heroes went up is me, yes. Look finals were obviously a far off dream in my first season with the boys last season. Just getting a win was the aim. But after a hard summer of training for the greater part of the BPL heroes squad with FS it is certainly a credit to the guys for putting in the work and making the finals is obviously good reward for effort. I think Ablett is dreaming if he thinks the suns will make the finals in the next few years, but the Heroes will be in the finals for many seasons to come.

2. So Heroes seem to be getting it together at the end of the season. What's been the difference?

It’s been a combination of things. Firstly our skills have improved out of sight - WE CAN CATCH NOW!!! And we can execute basic plays and maintain strong force. But secondly our form over the past few weeks has meant that we start playing the game in the first point. Where in seasons past teams would get on top of us early and close the game out with a lead, and us scoring the last few points once we got going is now no longer the case. Other differences from other seasons is just the intensity that we bring to the line. However we still do have a long way to go, which everyone is well aware of.

3. Dojo - are they really all that? Lay the smack on!

Look Dojo Mojo are the old school. Their club has been up there forever right, we all know that. But I’ve actually found cracks starting to emerge in this old club. Firstly we can take the blog indicator. Once the blog stops being updated by a proper blogger a team is likely to fall down the pit. Take cobras for instance. As soon as Wetnose handed the reigns over to Reece the blogging stopped and so did the team. The same is bound to happen with the Dojo. Maybe it’s just the arthritis in the old button pushes creeping in - I dunno. But other signs are just simply that the Dojo has their heads in the clouds...literally. Their height has been the Dojos strength but even the oldest tallest trees can be brought down by the smallest termites. Now the Heroes obviously aren’t insects but who ever heard of a super hero losing to a ninja??? Yea it just doesn’t happen does it.... Heroes are going to win if we can keep our cool, start well and use our under cuts. The handlers are going to have to break the fatty zone which means running him around and tiring the old fatty out.

Thanks Carl, that was lengthy, to say the least! We here at the Imperial Palace wish two of these four teams the best on Thursday night. GET IT ON!!