“Not a winner of the Luckiest Rat Alive award, Swiss Cheese had his neck broken in the first drive, came back from the apo saying he felt alright, and then another flap of Vegas Butterfly's wings and he was dead. Top Hat almost did as well falling over while trying to surf a catcher.

On the positive side, my luck held for the first half - I let Swampserpent stall, on the basis that if I pressed him, he'd score anyway, and I was having too much fun fouling on the other side of the pitch. Then a gap opened up and the rats put some speed into it, fluked the ball off him at the last moment, and ran it up and away from threat.

Second half, we scored with Stilton in a couple of turns (how I love Cheddar's Strong Arm) but that gave the Butterflies too much time to march forward and kill our kicker. And what is a team of rats without a kicker, eh?

Those blitzers of mine really need to start getting some SPP or when we hit the (slightly) bigger leagues, they'll be seriously outgunned.”