“A horrible game, and the less said about it the better.

It began with a blitz against me. I kept hold of the ball, but couldn't really set up the offence the way I would have liked and after a shorter pass than usual, the downfield catcher wasn't far enough downfield to avoid being knocked over on the following turn. I could have recovered, and scored, except that a comfortable block to free up an assist resulted in double skulls, rerolled to double skulls.

And after that the rest of the first half was a litany of failed rolls, ineffective blocking and injuries.

After going 0-1 down, I did try to mount a successful offence, but the thrower was KOd early on and stayed out for the whole game, forcing me to make some awkward-looking moves because I couldn't rely on the catcher playing back-up passer being able to do much. Even so, I was in a position to score at the end of the half, but more bad dice saw to it that I went into the second half a score down and still missing four players.

So it was easy enough for dolphinandrew to score straight away and pretty much put the game beyond doubt.

By this point, I was just wanting to get to the end of the match. Still no passer, so I couldn't even just long bomb for stats. Instead, I decided to just mess about a bit, giving the touchback to the tree and giving him the opportunity to throw a pass - which he managed on the second attempt (his second completion in 581 games!)

But any hope I had of managing a late score for the sake of it was denied to me by another failed go for it and unsurprisingly, the dark elves got the ball and ran it in for yet another score.

The dark elves barely broke a sweat all game - it was that easy for them. Apart from the tree completion, three BH was all I had to show for the game and even if they had all come much earlier in the game, Too Goth had enough roster depth to deal with it without much problem.

I don't really like playing at this level. The bashy teams are all way too tooled-up to give an over-bloated wood elf team much of a chance at surviving, and the agile teams are all much better developed than mine and can do all the things I can do, only better. While I was completely outplayed I did consider doing another one of my total rebuilds, binning everyone but the tree and the thrower, but in the end I decided against it. Sacking the -MA catcher has brought my TR back down to below 2000k, which I guess will be okay for the moment, and I'm really only raging because the thrower missed a perfect opportunity to rack up some good stats.

And anyway, I have better things to be thinking about, because not only did Thursdaynight Guitarclub pick up a cas and make a completion, he was also awarded the MVP, now making him officially FUMBBL's all-time Most Valuable Player. He's been top in Ranked for a while, but there was a 1-player team sitting way up on 87 MVPs and it's been a huge long slog to overhaul him. Obviously, theses days picking up MVPs is a lot easier than it used to be when it was completely random, but I don't care. I'm still going to celebrate.

And after that I'm going to play a game with some proper passing in it. Honestly, letting a tree throw a pass? What is the world coming to?”