Hours before his 10th game as the Kruelty's coach The_Murker was feeling the pressure. His record was 5 wins, 1 Draw, 3 Losses. His contract had a "10 Game Review" clause, and it sure would be much better going into the bargaining room with a fresh win under his belt and twice as many victories as defeats, vice a shrug of the shoulders and an agent who's sales pitch would likely be "Five, one, and four. Eh.. could be worse."
The league management tool (a black crystal ball which is oddly cube shaped) soon decided the opposition and the location, a trip to some rat infested cave complex. Preoccupied with his own thoughts, the coach quickly checked the skaven's roster before the match, but nothing else. One ST3 runner with horns was the only concern, a few mice with guard thrown in. At kick-off the cave stadium held 11'000 drunken human fans and no-one else. By the time the ball had sailed through the air and landed out of bounds attendance had increased by 14'000 creepy rat tails, apparently with better things to do 2 seconds before the game . The Kingston assistant coach muttered something to himself about speed and how this was 'going to get ugly' if something wasn't done quick. He then hurled his unopened beer can at the nearest skaven and KO'd it for 16 turns. The rat's opening drive took all of 1.5 turns to get the ball up one side line, back to the middle, and within one simple hand off from the end-zone, then dropped it. The first of three rat "skull, re-roll, skull" combos during the match, this was their most painful. The outpaced Kruelty defense barely managed to keep up, but then won the ensuing pig-skin punch up against a very vicious and persistent pack of rats. The humans ultimately scored turn 8. Kingston rolled near flawless block dice for the rest of the match. The rats, not so much. A very aggressive rat defense taught the Kingston coach a thing or two about Skaven capabilities, but the fortunate humans did not relinquish control of the ball long enough for the tunnelers to score. 1-Nil for the Kruelty.
Pleased with his victory and record the Kingston coach prepared to meet the traveling human press and be on a post match Crystal Vision interview for the first time. Why after this game, he wasn't sure. "Coach! Did you know that Skaven team was 12 and 1? Did you know the opposition coach has played 1200 Blood Bowl matches? Coach, did you know he's ranked 800 slots higher than you in the league? Coach, why are you so lucky?" The rest of the interview took 10 seconds. "No. No. No. Ummm… Don't know."