With the Excelsiors called back to Eataine to repel a recent Dark Elf invasion, Head Coach Endycarus signed a temporary contract to coach an obscure collection of Skaven and Goblins called Grudge Match. They played their first match against upcoming Lizardman team Pax Britannia last night. We had the rare opportunity to listen in on the coach's side of a long distance communication with Excelsiors quarterback Kolrith.

"I'm sorry to hear that. That's got to be quite a blow."

"Well, obviously it pales in comparison to defense of the homeland. Anyways, I don't really want to talk about it."

"Ha. No, it's not that they're uncoachable; it's more like they're allergic to the ball."

"Actually, the casualty count was better than your game against the Incredibles last season."

"Yes, of course I realize the difference between an experienced Orc team and a bunch of rookie Lizardmen. I'm just saying..."

"Yeah, I know. It seems like every troll the Excelsiors have ever played against was a genius. Retribution did nothing but drool for most of the game. The stormvermin are good, though. Well, were good, in the case of the dearly departed Vengeance."

"Threw an amazing hit, then tripped over his tail trying to get to another skink. Took a pretty serious concussion, just like you did last season, but he could have had plenty more productive years with the right treatment."

"No, there was no 'setback'. The damned apothecary killed him. On purpose."

"I can't prove it, but I heard him grumbling about all the 'work' it takes to keep a Skaven in game condition once he's had his bell rung once. Next thing I know, there's a smell of cooking coming from the locker room and he walks out with a bowl of some kind of rat soup."

"Yeah, I hope you give those Corsairs the boot quickly. I don't think I can get through two seasons of this."

I've looked at my opponents for Season 22 and I feel a bit out classed. I'm playing Underworld and the word squishy is beginning to make me fearful.

First up is Norse with Tyler. I've played Tyler once and I learned alot about how to play and all about stalling. The Norse are nice and bashy I played them at Thunderkrunch with little success though i have my own dice luck to blame for that. I expect at least 3 casualties. The only things that may save me are the Stunty and Dodge. I've got to work those to make a win the slightly faster skaven should get me some TDs. I'm not a great player as of yet so I hope to win and I'm not counting on it.

First Match Report: If 1's and 2's were the coin of the world I would be a wealthy man.  About 65% to 70% of my rolls were bad resulting in Turn Overs or bad plays. I got so desperated that I tried braking cages with goblins... note I will try that later when they have some skill but to start off with it was suicide. I managed to Kill a player with the Troll and throw a teammate into position to score. It was great though it didn't make up for the laws of probability leaving me at the alter. Tyler played a great match, didn't stall to long and deserved to win.

Second is Lizardmen. I've wanted to play this team for a while not really looking forward to playing against it. Skink speed and Saurus strength will be punishing vs the gobos. I'm looking to tie this one.

Second Match Report: This one a was dreading after my first game. In the end it turned out to be ok. Sure I took 5 casualties and two of those were deaths but I did get some skills and I did win which was not expected. I have to say the Liccalottapusses are going to be pretty nasty once they start getting some skills on them. I had a 2 goal lead on them in the early part of the second half but sortly there after I didn't have too much team to play with.

Third is Woodelves... need I say more. I'm going to try and put the hurt on the WD or another skilled player. Hoping for no Treeman.

Fourth is Pro Elves. Less scary than the Woodies but I feel they will have a a bunch of TDs. No Big Guy is a plus! I hope to still have mine by this time. I've never played Mike so I'm looking forward to this game.

Fifth is Chaos Dwarfs. Tackle is going to be a killer as well as the Dwarf toughness. This game will be close if I can get the ball to a skaven player and manage the gauntlet. I like playing Steve for the endless humor of the moments. Regardless this game should be good times. I hope to have Tentacles on the Warpstone Troll at this point or by the end of this game.

Sixth is Chaos. Paul has been talking about a ball handling team... lets hope its still in the works at this point. Regardless I will get bashed around not much i can do about it here I'm marginally faster and have skills for the running and throwing game in place. It could go either way. Also very much looking forward to this game.

Seventh is Orcs. I predict a win for me but it will be close and I will have 5 guys on the field by the end.... making me wonder if I really did in fact win.

Eighth is High Elves. This will likely end in a score of 4 to 2 for the elves. I foresee a loss here. I've played a lot of elf teams and I never seem to do well against the High Elves.

Ninth is Dark Elves. I will say 3-2 for the Delves and many losses on both sides. God help me if he's got assassins.

Game Ten is against the Chaos Pact. Another team I wish to develop in the future. I have a feeling as long as the marauders are not to developed I can pull out the win here. The Gobo, Delf and Skaven don't really hold much threat for me. The 3 Big Guys however will be pounding me to hell.

 I am predicting a 4W-2T-4L for this season. Better than that and I'll be ecstatic, less than that and I'll likely bring in a new team for the next season.

What do you think?