Buce League (2011)

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The 2011 Buce League is a summer league, and the first official Buce league to be played for a year. The league, which is a successor to the disappointingly cancelled 2010 Winter Buce League, was announced in late February 2011, due to a huge demand for a league, and was met with a massively positive reaction by Buce fans and players.

Team Blek won the Grand Final for the 2011 League, winning 7-2 against The Toecutters. It was the first ever grand final appearance for The Toecutters, and the first ever Grand Final win for Blek, who have now appeared in two consecutive grand finals.

History

2010

After the 2010 Buce League, preparation was quickly made for a successor that year, a winter equivalent similar to the 2009 Winter Buce League.

A date was set for the 4th of July, but was eventually delayed by 3 weeks because of the Newcastle soccer season being held back 3 weeks due to a month of rain. Many buce players also competed in soccer and the organisers believed this would hinder the turnout.

A week before the planned start of the league, the 2010 Buce League was abruptly cancelled, to the shock and disappointment of many fans. The main organiser Charlie Rogers wasn't convinced the league would have enough support to succeed, and pulled the plug on the league. Though a possible revival of the league was made public, it was never acted on.

The official reason for the cancellation was officially noted to be because of "organising difficulties and lack of interest." This was namely because of Team Blek and The Scourge's withdrawal from the league at short notice, noticeably harming Buce's younger fanbase and affecting a large portion of Buce League tradition and spirit. Other reasons included a disheartening assessment of the League Balance Strategy, which concluded that the strategy had not worked in the way that was intended, and had essentially led to controversial league team Wu-Tang Clan to dominate the competition. The Pioneer's Cup for 2010 had also not gone as well as expected. While the game itself was noted as being spectacular, many of the Challengers did not attend and the crowd turnout was minimal.

2011

By late 2010 it was clear the 2010 Winter Buce League was not going to happen, though Rogers, Buce League's main organiser was adamant that there would be a 2011 Buce League. While publicly claiming that the existence of a 2011 Summer Buce League was definitely in the works, organising was delayed repeatedly for several months. In late February, the 2011 Buce League was announced, because of an unprecedented rise in demand. The announcement brought a surprising amount of support from fans, who started organising teams instantaneously, almost immediately replacing those that had withdrawn.

The 2011 Buce League's official starting date was the 27th of March, 2011, but after a saddening wet-weather cancellation, started on the 3rd of April.

League Table

Team	Wins	Losses	Draws	Points
Team Venture	4	0	1	13
The Toecutters	4	1	0	12
Team Blek	3	2	0	9
The Hawks	2	2	1	7
GGs	1	4	0	3

For/Against

Team	For	Against	Total
Team Venture	36	24	+12
Team Blek	24	17	+7
The Toecutters	17	15	+2
The Hawks	17	19	-2
GGs	14	33	-19

Top Scorers

Player	Team	Double Buces	Double Points	Buces	Points	Total
Hamish Rogers	Team Blek			4	7	15
Charlie Rogers	Team Venture			5	4	14
Ashley Everson	Team Venture			4	2	10
Drew Cowen	The Toecutters			2	3	7
Nick Scott	Team Blek			2	3	7
Nick Allan	The Hawks			2	1	5
Alec Forbes	Team Venture				5	5
Tre Clifford	GGs		1	1		4
Joey Freeland	GGs			2		4
Mitch Furner	The Hawks			1	2	4
Theo Rogers	The Toecutters			2		4
Robert Willis	GGs			1	2	4
Jackson Clarke	Team Venture				3	3
Gus Bevan	Team Blek				2	2
Keiran Donahay-Genoni	The Hawks		1			2
Keith Rogers	The Toecutters			1		2
Andrew Shakespeare	The Hawks		1			2
Oscar Cowen	The Toecutters				1	1
Lewis Freeland	Team Venture				1	1
Matthew Hair	The Toecutters				1	1
Gordon Patrick	The Toecutters				1	1

Draw

Round 1 (3rd April)

Team 1	Home	Away	Team 2	Time
Team Venture	8	5	Team Blek	3:00 PM
The Hawks	4	2	GGs	4:00 PM
The Toecutters			BYE

Round 2 (10th April)

Team 1	Home	Away	Team 2	Time
Team Blek	2	4	The Toecutters	3:00 PM
Team Venture	9*	8	The Hawks	4:00 PM
GGs			BYE

* Match cancelled with 5 minutes to go due to dangerous weather, match concluded as draw regardless of score.

Round 3 (17th April)

Team 1	Home	Away	Team 2	Time
The Toecutters	7	2	GGs	3:00 PM
Team Blek	5	3	The Hawks	4:00 PM
Team Venture			BYE

Round 4 postponed due to Easter weekend

Round 4 (1st May)

Team 1	Home	Away	Team 2	Time
The Hawks	2	3	The Toecutters	3:00 PM
GGs	8	10	Team Venture	4:00 PM
Team Blek			BYE

Round 5 (8th May)

Team 1	Home	Away	Team 2	Time
The Toecutters	3	9	Team Venture	3:00 PM
GGs	2	12	Team Blek	4:00 PM
The Hawks			BYE

Finals (15th May)

Team 1	Home	Away	Team 2	Time
Team Venture	5	6	Toecutters	1:00 PM
Team Blek	3	2	The Hawks	2:00 PM
Team Venture	5	6	Team Blek	3.00 PM

Grand Final (22nd May)

Team 1	Home	Away	Team 2	Time
The Toecutters	2	7	Team Blek	2:00 PM

Teams

Confirmed

Team Venture

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• Charlie Rogers
• LEWIS Freeland
• Alec Forbes
• Dane McMahon-Squires
• Levon Rush
• Ashley Everson

GGs

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• Tre Clifford (c)
• Lachlon Willis (vc)
• Robert Willis
• Joey Freeland
• Jaxon Ireland
• Ethan Smith

Hawks

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• Michael Read
• Nick Allan
• Mitch Furner
• Tim Abel
• Andrew Shakespeare
• Guy Bevan
• Daniel Carr
• Keiran Donahay-Genoni
• Daniel Herd

Blek

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• Angus Bevan
• Hamish Rogers
• Nick Scott
• Liam Steele
• Flynn Comerford

The Toecutters

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• Keith Rogers
• Gordon Patrick
• Drew Cowen
• Matthew Hair
• Krammers

Rumoured

• Wu-Tang Clan