“Possibly the point at which this team became non-viable, if we're honest, considering the sheer damage it took from the Khemri team. I suspect a death-spiral beckons from this point onwards as I don't have the funds to replace the stiffs and it seems very unlikely I'm going to win enough money to do so in the near future.

The score, by the way, is totally unrepresentative of the game as my touchdown was the result of a grotesque probabilistic aberration in one turn early in the second half. With two players dead and my big guy out of the game early on I decided my only option to emerge with anything like a viable squad was to play defensively - that's not defensively as in 'try to stop the opposition scoring' but defensively as in 'abandon the ball, flee to the opposition's end zone and hope they leave you alone while they score'. Pride is a luxury of the competent and confident... ”