Tuesday, May 18, 2010

How Not To Play Ultimate (or Blog About It)

Okay so we might have failed yet again in our blogging duties here at the DojoMojo Blog over the past couple of weeks, but that's nothing compared to the on-field fail against Cobras last Thursday night...

What an absolute shocker. Okay, we traded for the first half against a very pumped up and confident Cobras, but just trading points isn't something the Dojo has done a whole lot of this season, so nothing to get too excited about there. And even less to get excited about in the second half. Nothing, in fact, except for this soon-to-be-legendary moment:

[NB refer comments for several more accurate versions of the story]


The Cobras receive the Dojo pull well into their own endzone and manage to move a pass or two until the disc reaches Abra (pretty sure it was Abra - happy for anyone out there to correct this detail) in the front left corner. Abra goes for a throw of some sort only to find the surprisingly long arms of Leon McIntyre already where he's just released the disc to (some say Leon should've actually caught the disc for a Callahan, but that's another story).

So, big handblock to Leon on the glue that holds the Cobras together, and a key turnover on the first (or maybe second?) point of the second half. Leon then quickly dumps it backward a few metres to Coops who immediately looks to the endzone for the score. He sees Rohan streaking away and lets it fly! Ummm - just one problem, he's hucked it the full length of the field toward the DOJO endzone...

Thankfully Rohan pulls the catch in just short of the Dojo goal line, turns and sees Pete heading toward him. So what does he do next? Well it seems the penny hasn't dropped yet despite the guffawing from the Dojo sideline and he puts up a very dodgy floater (more of a slip&slider actually) for Pete to run onto for an own goal (luckily not possible in Ultimate) in the Dojo endzone.

Ah, but being the brainiac he is Pete has had the situation under control the whole time. With the entire Cobras team now in disbelieving confusion and slowly jogging back down the field, he has ALL NIGHT to look back in the correct direction this time where he sees Daz (as we recall it, maybe it wasn't him) begging for the disc in a now very sparsely occupied Cobras endzone. Pete sticks it - GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's the last thing that happened all night, as far as we can remember...

6 comments:

  1. I think the confusion with going to wrong direction came because Abra had thrown the disc in front of Reece (it wasn't a Leon handblock, that was earlier in the game) and Leon had got the block and then Reece fell into Leon's leg and had to go off injured with a bleeding nose. I think the time lapse inbetween play was what caused the confusion.

    But Sensei, you forgot to mention that the half time score was 8-7 to Cobras, then 8-8 shortly after, before the final score of 15-8 was achieved.

    In fairness to Dojo, you guys didn't have your best night, whilst we had most things running slick.

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  2. wetnose, that could not be more wrong!
    Isaac threw a shocker of a dump and I saw dan walls running for the same disc, but coming towards me so I had second thoughts about going for it. I eventually decided to go for it but he got the d and then maliciously shoulder charged me and put me on my arse.
    Typical Dojo.

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  3. Wow! Thats a great story, except that between wetty and reece's comments here and pete's rant over on the BUB, its very difficult to understand what really happened. How many other versions are out there?

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  4. Oh man - if only I'd known the commenting goldmine of dodgy storytelling sooner I could've maybe got the Dojo blog up to a perfect 10 on that BUB review... I'll never write another factual word.

    Pete - I don't know why you can't comment here, so here's your BUB comment paraphrased for all those that prefer to check the Dojo blog and avoid the BUB (you might be surprised how many there are, Wetnose!):

    PETE ALLEN:

    "So just to clarify things written on the dojo blog since I still can't comment over there...
    I wasn't even on the field I was on the sideline crying with laughter. Replace my name with Ryan, replace the fatty handblock with Reece facebutting dan's leg and not getting the disc and replace the long huck from Ryan(not me) to a half field throw to Daz who then hucked it the rest of the way into the endzone for the score with some crazy bullet flick.

    There we go, just had to get that off the chest, I had nothing to do with that almost debacle."

    Ah well, the details may differ, but the ridiculous hilarity remains. As does the pathetic result...

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  5. I think Reece's recount was the most accurate. The hammer handblock was earlier in the game. Just change Reece's post from maliciously shoulder charging, to receiving a gentle bump.

    Hmmm I really shouldn't of picked up that disc!

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  6. That;s the funniest thing I've read since blogging was invented. Wish I was there...on second thoughts I would of been in a rage at the stupidity. If I was Coops I probably would of called a timeout.

    Andy Mc

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