“Hard work against a more skilled coach playing hardened vikings. Elves kicked first, and the vikings quickly got the ball picked up by 4-strength sure hands dodge thrower... which made it virtually impossible for the poor elves to get that ball back.

In second half, elves got a few passes off and a sweet two-turner, then made the mistake of trusting the weather and Nuffle (sweltering heat was ON) to get rid of most of the Norse team... alas, only the snow troll and the norse thrower were affected by the heat, but the Elves were outnumbered and kicking at the start of turn 2 for the vikings.

The vikings managed once again to get the ball in the hands of an overstrength bearded fellow, and held the elves at bay for the rest of the game until a nice turn-8 touchdown.

Wyklas will be missed, but I've learned the hard way never to save a rookie lineman. As it turned out, the apothecary was neede later in the game when we almost got a permanent AG decrease on a more experienced player.

Two out of three catchers will sit the next one out, which will make it more difficult.

I am happy to say that although we lost the blocking game to the block-happy norsemen, we didn't lose it by very much (45-42). If we'd stuck to our game plan and focused our blocks on the AV7 boys we might actually have done some damage. Instead we spent lots of energy batting the bigger, badder boys around.”