This is Jip. Can you keep him uninjured (no Niggles or statistic busts) until the end of the season?
If you can, you'll be entered into a draw to win a set of Coffee Cup dice and cheat cards.
You can't fire or replace Jip to stay in the running for this prize.
Good luck, and don't let me die!

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Season One - Finding Their Feet
Much to Steve O'Dore's unheeded protests, Toki - a representative of the Teamster guild and therefore Steve's arch enemy - joined the team when Calamity Cartwright was cruelly killed by the Hightower Haemovores. Toki was roped in when nobody else of the cartwright guild was willing to step up to replace Calamity, and the Teamster guild were just the "next best thing". Ever the oblivious jock, Blokey took to wearing an ox yoke to the field, allegedly to avoid getting bitten by any more vampires.

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Season Two - the Jipperson Manifold Incident, part 1
"What happened to your shirt? Why have you crossed out your name?"
"I'm Jip now, innit", Toki grinned.
"What, long, lanky and allegedly endowed? What's gotten over you?"
Toki, who was still short, stout and wearing his wooden yoke (although allegedly just as endowed), merely shrugged. "All da other teams got themselves a Jip now, coach. Is like a mascot, see. Da other Jips do it to stay on sideline an not get hurt, but I'mma gonna get the bestest plays dis season, promise."
"Welp", Coach huffed, "I know who's got scrimmage duty on Defense now."

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Season Two - the Jipperson Manifold Incident, part 4
"Okay, so this would have been another four-nil apart from that blasted Gutter Runner having the decency to trip on the line that last round", Coach admonished his beaten team. "Steve is dead, Jip rolled Skulls but got the MVP for at least not dying, our Troll Slayer is crippled, Modo is back on bell ringing duty next match - sorry Ember, but you'll have to go - did I miss anything?"

"Half time oranges was mouldy too", Jip muttered. Coach narrowed his eyes.

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Season Two - the Jipperson Manifold Incident, part 5
The whole team looked on bedraggled as Dirgey Trauerflor was taken home by her Mourner's Guild colleagues, the ugly belly wound from a historically incorrect HORNED Norse helmet still seeping through her jersey. Nobody even protested when Toki-Jip was nominated MVP *again*, nobody celebrated the return of Modo from his bell tower duties. "This wouldn't have happened if we had played against those Lizardmen as planned", Vera Steinhaeger sniffled. "Nope", Tronje conceded. "We'd all be much deader and at least two more touchdowns further back."