“And so a new era begins, with no legendary tree on the front line and with only a rookie sapling to take his place. However, the rookie showed some awesome potential, collecting a BH lineman and then killing his opposite number (before the Leafblowers's apothecary repaired him and got him back on the field). For this he was selected for the MVP - which he won - and managed to get himself block on his first roll.

The rest of the team fared slightly less well. A lot of them were off the field for much of the game, and unsurprisingly, Cloggy paid special attention to the wardancer, happily sacrificing a sent-off dirty player in return for a SI on my only real threat.

Meanwhile, Briskbreeze was racking up some good yards with a few unnecessary passes, and a couple of long bombs downfield for scores - both to one of the journeymen who showed such promise, I hired him after the game. Late on, Briskbreeze was BH off the field, but by then his job was done and he was happy to hit the showers early with his 6 for 55 yards.

The Leafblowers were never really in danger of losing, but at 2-2 it was at least exciting, and all in all, I enjoyed myself immensely.

Next time out is going to be a quiet one, with the wardancer missing and not enough gold to buy any new players afterwards, and presumably this is why a bunch of fans decided to wander off and find a better team to follow.

But I'll show them.”