Season One - Finding their Feet
Young, dashing Tronje is the reason the Haagen Dashers exist. The nephew of Jochen Haagen and heir apparent to his uncle's mercantile empire, Tronje always fancied himself a nobleman by all but blood. When he applied to join the Bogenhafen Barons and was rejected, he mooted the idea of drumming up his own team from among Bogenhafen's council members.

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Season Two - the Jipperson Manifold Incident, part 2
"So how did Being Jip help you against the Chaos Dwarves?", team owner Tronje asked while tying his turnshoes.
"Hey, you still managed to draw without me, right?", Jip quipped. But Tronje hadn't waited for an answer, already dashing through a parkour of plywood cutouts to improve his dodging. Coach Bron joined Jip and watched the rich MVP's training with interest. "To think", coach started, "He could have worked on his speed instead... Now, tell me, uh, Jip. Every time we blocked the OTHER team's Jip, we drew nothing but skulls. You, on the other hand, got punched out first chance you got and then STAYED in the K.O. corner for the rest of the match. Why can't you be a bit more like the other one?"
"Uh... you mean like a hobgoblin?"
"If it takes you wearing a silly hat for us to win", Bron glowered, "I would have swapped your helmet for a fruit basket already!"

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Season Two - the Jipperson Manifold Incident, part 7
"Did we just win?" Tronje asked, dumbfounded.
"Against Nurgle as well?", Coach sneezed.
"It appears that way", Tronje coughed. His own performance wasn't too outstanding, he had to admit to himself, but the audience still voted him MVP. Already, folks dubbed him the "Little Griff".
"Aint no wonder though", Jip-Toki interjected, fresh from the outhouse where he had spent the better part of two hours expressing himself. "We gots our Jip on the field, but theres wuz missin, innit?"

Third son of Hieronymus Ruggbroder, Edelmuth has been an unlikely friend of Tronje's since they were little kids. When Tronje brought his team together, it was Ed he turned to for the team's Thrower position, recalling Ed's strong arm at the annual Schaffenfest axe throwing competitions. Ed, ever eager to find a new market for his father's rye, started bringing unpalatable, black rye bread to training and ended up eating most of it himself, which earned him his nickname.

Accolades:
- Most Heroic Throwing Pose

Vera doesn't really want to play Blood Bowl, but her family forced her to accept Tronje's invitation. "It's about fair representation", they said. "Think of the shame if we don't participate", they said. In fact, without Vera in the team, Tronje and Ed would have had a hard time recruiting any Dwarves. She still thinks this is all a ploy between her family and the Haagens to get her to marry Tronje, a prospect that makes her gag.

Accolades:
- Titchy Gauntlet Survivor (vs Hogg'Snots)

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Season 2: The Jipperson Manifold, Part 3
Vera was barely recovered from her accolades of Only TD Winner and MVP of the match against some foreign-named Elves, so despite the 4:1 loss she was in a good mood. "We injured their Jip!" she yelled, swinging her flagon about.
"Doesn't mean we couldn't have had two more touchdowns", Steve O'Dore snarked, glancing daggers at their own, still unblemished Jip mascot. Early on in the game, he had stumbled and knocked himself out because, as he claimed, he was positioned on the same flank as Toki-Jip, and that was bad luck. Steve threw his bag of Worcestershire Sauce Crisps at Vera, who deftly Sidestepped the spicy missile.
Toki-Jip adjusted his oxen yoke and declared: "Aint no matter that they beat us like dirt. I'm still alive, and dat gives us da moral high ground!"

Modo was found as an abandoned babe at the gates of the Sigmarite temple in Bogenhafen. The priests kept him around, even as he grew and grew beyond their expectation. He was handy for helping with hard labor, and keeping rowdy Blood Bowl fans from storming the serenity of the temple. However, unbeknownst to the holy men, Modo dreamed of the gridiron. At the moment, he joins the team incognito.

Which is probably the reason why after each injury he is forced to miss the next game as he tries to hide his pastime from his benefactors. So far he's only managed to play every other game.

"You're a Troll slayer?"
"Yeah Boss."
"...working for the..."
"Mourner's Guild. Sure Boss."
"Pardon me, but that sounds unlikely."
"I even got me a theme tune: You're getting buried in the morning, Ding Dong, the axe is gonna shine..."

"...charming. Well, we lost out second Mourner's Guild member because of a broken ankle, and we're just as unlucky on troll slayers, so... welcome to the team? What's your name again?"
"Gravel Axe."
"Hmmm... has a bit of a fishy ring to it. Maybe with a title at the end, like the Unhuman, the Ill-Humoured...
"Gotcha, Boss."

After Vera reluctantly joined the roster, it was only a matter of time for the guilds allied to the Steinhaeger family to offer their own champions. Carat, a representative of the Jewellers' Guild, was the first to throw his felt hat into the ring. Ever in friendly competition with the team's Trollslayer Dross Anvilson, he mourned the recent death more than any other team mate. Rumours are, he's close to picking up a Slayer oath himself to honour his grudge-friend Dross.

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Season Two - the Jipperson Manifold Incident, part 6

"Hey, we've only lost 2-Nil this time, we're getting better!" Coach said with a cheerful smile that's only ever possible after the imbibing of the Aporcethary's Sekret Erbage. And despite the carnage he was oddly proud of his players for holding off the Norse opponent against huge odds - five vs 11, 2 vs 9...
Toki-Jip grinned while teaching Carat how to Guard. "I killed their Jip and all", he boasted. "Dass worth some medal in itself. Pity about their Apo."
Carat lost his concentration and messed up a casual imbalancing assist, making Toki even more insufferable. "Fancy that, me teaching a dwarf how ta Guard", he sneered. Carat grumbled into his beard. "Just cuz you survived five fouls doesn't mean you're invicible, you beanstalk."
"Great job, folks!", Coach interrupted. "Maybe next game we'll only lose One-Nil, huh? Dream big!"

Snug is that rarity: a dwarf among carpenters. Folks rumour that with every tree he saws into planks, he takes revenge on some fair elf maiden from his youth. Others claim that he has elven blood in his lineage, and it's usually those who are astounded at how fleet of foot the stout fellow is. Never to his face. Obviously.

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Season Two - the Jipperson Manifold Incident, part 8

"Did we win.... again?", even JipToki said.
Snug shrugged and pushed Toki away from him in the training. "As you said - they didn't have their Jip on the field either, those Orcs." His Fend training would serve him well, keeping all his new Dwarfette fans at bay, after he landed both a Touchdown and the coveted MVP title this time.
Tronje remained sceptic. "Nobody tell Bron yet. It'd go to his head."

Among the no-nonsensical Dwarves of the team, Quince is the most dour. He's the second-in-command of the Masons' Guild, a staunch follower of protocol and ancient ritual, often seen in his ceremonial leather tabard when not on the job. As the oldest Longbeard, he manages to even put the team's hot-headed Dwarf Blitzer into his place.

After Calamity's death, something must have snapped in the old Longbeard, and he steeled his fists to deliver harder punches, just like the Cartwright dwarfess used to do. "It's like watching a volcano clear its throat before it erupts", Tronje commented.

Tim and Al look like twins and act like twins, constantly thinking up new pranks to play on their team mates. One of these days, Modo will whack some sense into them. Until then, Tim Tailor (who is a Weaver) and Al Weaver (who is a Tailor) are an inseparable bunch of Halfling ne'erdowells.

Tim and Al look like twins and act like twins, constantly thinking up new pranks to play on their team mates. One of these days, Modo will whack some sense into them. Until then, Tim Tailor (who is a Weaver) and Al Weaver (who is a Tailor) are an inseparable bunch of Halfling ne'erdowells.

Not long after Steve O'Dore the Stevedore was killed in the match against an overachieving Underachievers Underworld team, he was replaced by a twin that nobody had ever heard of, with restless eyes and an uneasy knife wound smile.

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."