So in a recent post we here in the stately Brisbane Ultimate Blog mansion fired up our ‘Footy Show’ style analogue season summary machine to consider how the Moreton Bay Buggers and the Slamtown Flatball Clubs got themselves into 4th and 5th places at the end of the for and against season. Today, as we rush towards tomorrow’s Semi-Finals (rain permitting!), we’ll have a look at minor Premiers the UQ Lovers, and wooden spooners (there’s always something for the cabinet), the Heroes.
UQ Lovers – Six wins, one draw, two losses.
The new-look UQ Lovers, hoovering up most of the best of the previous season’s Champion and fifth placed teams, seem to have totally stuck to the script this season. To wit, a Win-Loss-Win-Loss opening four games while the team worked out who had which side of the bed, followed by an unbeaten run up to the Semi-Finals and the Minor Premiership.
The Lovers losses have been against Slamtown who are taking no further part in the season, and the Dojo, who they won’t see again unless both make the Final.
Elsewhere, the Lovers have had the wood on the Heroes and the Buggers, beating them twice. A chance to add the Cobras to this double-win list was lost due to rain.
Still, the most recent game against the Buggers was as close as you can get without being a draw– 13-12. The Buggers know that Finals time is a whole new disc-game – do the new Lovers know this too?
Heroes – nine losses.
Its been a tough second season for the sixth team in the Brisbane Premier League, the green clad Heroes. In their first season, they managed to pick up a win to keep the home fires burning and the ladies interested, but this time around the champagne has been kept well corked.
The best results were to hit double figures but go down by 3 last week against the Cobras, and by 4 against UQ in Round 6.
Still, nobody in our hearing is talking about the Heroes going away or doing anything other than improving. If this were the EPL, there’d be talk about the need to bring over a top flight striker. But on the other hand, with three ‘feeder’ teams in the BUML, its arguably only a matter of time before the home grown talent shines through.
3 comments:
In a strange twist Heroes dont win a game this season. All would agree that the Heroes team that was fielded this season compared to the first season was a lot stronger. Maybe instead other BPL teams did actually take us seriously and stepped up to beat us. The heroes just didnt know how to win this season. There were many times where the game was in the balance at about the 3/4 mark of the game, occasionally even us being up, only to fall away and let it blow out.
These three feeder teams lay dormant in the BUML for a few years before rising to make the semis respectively this year. And now last night discheads (feeder team) made the final over heroes.
Heroes didnt win a game in our first season of d2 either
So maybe this same time lag will occur in BPL too?
We've got some fresh talent stepping up into the BPL next season, as well as the return of season 1 2010 performers Myall and George. Season 1 of 2011 will be a big one for Heroes BPL.
shhhh.. let's all be quiet
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