What do you get when you combine late-night highlights of the Ryder Cup with a nice dram of Macallan? The first post on the Dojo blog in a long time - that's what.
Oh man - so much to write about, so many distractions. Let's take it from the top. DojoMojo has qualified for yet another BPL grand final this season with a gritty 3-point win over Cobras. And that's where the latest round of controversy starts!
Controversy #1 - Reece
We (ie I) let Reece play. Well you know it just wouldn't have felt right getting into the grand final against a 6-man team (and it certainly wouldn't have felt great should we have happened to lose to one!). This despite the fact that our man Chris Cunliffe accepted Stu's ruling and didn't attempt to get on the field. In fact he didn't even attempt to get TO the field, but that's another matter altogether...
Nonetheless we feel sure that had Chris turned up then Liam would have happily allowed him to play in exchange for bringing the Cobras roster up to 7 with Reece.
Okay to be honest we were having some serious second thoughts about the wisdom of our chivalrous conduct about 5 points in, when the Cobras were starting to build a small lead courtesy of some vintage Stewart play, but at the end of the day it does feel good to have won a proper game...
Controversy #2 - Ultimate Fighting or Ultimate Disc?
Sure, the Cobras captain has a bit of a dodgy reputation when it comes to foul calls, and he does like giving receivers a bit of a touch up (putting it mildly?) after making a bid on a long disc. But none of that justified our man Ryan pushing Liam to the ground twice after some borderline post-catch contact. Yes, tempers had been building for a while (especially courtesty of an utterly bogus "out" call by Liam a few points earlier), but any kind of physical retaliation is completely unacceptable in Ultimate. A Spirit timeout was called and Ryan made a full apology to an accepting Liam, but in the interests of setting a suitably harsh benchmark DojoMojo has officially suspended Mr Black until next season, ruling him out for this week's Grand Final match against UQ. Ouch.
So we've got no Ryan, no Cunliffe, left-handed Leon only has his right hand, Eastburn has been injured all season and Dan Walls decided that the second half of 2010 would be a good time to take a sabbatical. If we can win the big game from here it'll be a miracle.
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Yeah Dojo! Claim that Underdog status! :)
ReplyDeleteAlthough I didn't see the incident, it sounds like a harsh but fair penalty, and admirably self-imposed.
ReplyDeleteBut Sensei, don't think this self-deprecation is fooling anyone. Passion won the last GF with only 8 players and when has Dojo ever had a big roster anyway? Leon is supposed to be cast-free by Thursday and in any case, he's still playing pretty damn well. Im expecting a very close and hard-fought game.
Anyway - we haven't covered the real issue of the day, which is who you've got lined up to do the camera-work and commentary for the GF video?
good point julz. Who is manning the post???
ReplyDeleteOn the point of suspending a player of your own. I was in awe when i heard you had suspended ryan. I have never heard of a team suspending their own player. Needless to say you obviously have a lot of pride in your team and a sense of duty to it.
Well done.
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