“An odd game this.

We started in a blizzard. Usually, this would have dismayed me, but for once I wasn't using my wood elves so I decided to receive and do something quite unusual for me... not throw the ball. An odd tactic, I admit, but it seemed to make sense, given the weather. Sadly, I couldn't quite manage it, and ended up lobbing a quick pass anyway, on my way to my first score.

The second score was all down to the failure of dice on the part of the dark elves. There were eight turnovers in the first half - one at the end of each dark elf turn. No that is what I call terrible dice.

The second half was completely different, however. The weather changed, for a start, and the dark elves stopped rolling so badly. In fact, they started doing rather well, especially with their blocking, racking up three KOs in quick succession. When they finally scored, they actually made it look quite easy, with just a simple catch in two TZs (admittedly with NoS, but even so) a blitz and a dodge.

My second offensive drive of the game was hampered by my second perfect D result on the kick off. It took me two turns to get my hands on the ball, and then my next two attempts at throwing a pass were thwarted by snakes on the catch, and then snakes on the pick-up in the following turn. In desperation, I ran in the final score with the thrower himself.

Not a bad performance from my boys, if somewhat unspectacular. I'm still not comfortable with humans and their AG3 and I tend to assume every dodge or throw or catch will be a fail. Still, I am heading in the right direction, with four wins out of four, and this is helping to keep my coach rating afloat while my wood elves merrily long bomb their way to regular losses.

A couple of nice skills - the ogre finally picked up his first and as it was a single he can add guard to the front line. Side step on a catcher will make him more annoying, and another skill for the thrower. I was, obviously, going to give him accurate, but he rolled another double so I went for dodge on the grounds that this might be useful later on in his career.

I also have plenty of gold sitting in the bank, and I picked up my fourth +FF in a row, so this is certainly not a result I can complain about. But 1 completion for 2 yards leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.

Next time I promise to try harder.”