Talk Fantasy Football

Ok the cricket world cup is about to start in my backwoods and I was thinking about what a cricket "BloodBall" game would look like.

Maybe opposing teams would bowl helpless goblins or halflings at each other, smack them towards the boundry, and watch them try to scamper pass the fielders trying to escape over the boundry.

Maybe players would have to barge down the pitch, while opposing fielders tried to impede their progress.

What if the game just reverted to "stingers", where a horde of enraged orcs would chase some elves around a field, trying to pelt them with a steel ball, while they tried to fend it off, trying to score boundries until they get carted off the field on stretchers...

Or maybe I've been spending too much time in the sun...hell it is 35? in the shade today.

Any more ideas would be welcome.

I don't have an entire week to play a board game based on cricket

PLaguelord, Do you know DaImp? He's from South Africa too and was just commenting on how few other Blood Bowler are down there.

just beat me to it pariah

I think you have just been spending too much time in the sun dude!

Oh, and where are you based? And why have I not played you yet?

don't say Cape Town.......

Gonna send out something silly...maybe one of you can tell me the source of this quote?

"No. No. You can't bite me; I'm South African!"

or we also have...

"I'm not a vampire! I'm a driving instructor...from Johannasburg!"

Brilliant.

I notice that it wasn't an english coach suggesting adapting cricket to BB - we'd all probably suck at that too

but I don't care, cricket sucks - football (soccer) anyday!

never heard those quotes before Pariah!

not quite sure what driving instructors from JHB and vampires have to do with one another either

If you want to hear a true story about drving in South Africa then this should amuse you:

"How many people can an allegedly drunk driver fit into his unroadworthy minibus taxi? (note minibus taxi = VW Combi / Hiace)

The answer: 46.

That was the unbelievable scenario that played out at the weekend near Laingsburg in the Karoo when traffic officers stopped a taxi making its way to Cape Town.

Legally, minibus taxis may carry no more than 21 people at a time.

Kenny Africa, deputy head of the Western Cape Traffic Department, said although taxis were frequently overloaded, to his knowledge, 46 people in one vehicle was a record.

"This is surely one of the most overloaded vehicles we have ever come across," Africa said.

The driver of the vehicle was arrested for drunk driving in addition to his heavy load, and the vehicle was confiscated because it was not roadworthy.

Traffic inspector Deon Fredericks stopped the minibus taxi on Saturday and couldn't believe "how people just kept piling from the vehicle".

The taxi, which carried 28 adults and 18 children, had faulty brakes and broken lights. The tyres were in a bad condition and the steering mechanism needed serious attention."

His name is actually Kenny Africa?

apparently... that struck me as bizzare as well.

Sounds like 1932 and Bodyline. The Aussies squealed unfair;


"The 3rd Test at Adelaide was described in Wisden as the most unpleasant ever played. During the first Australian innings Captain Bill Woodfull (below right) was struck a powerful blow above the heart by Larwood. The very next ball Jardine moved his fieldsman into the Bodyline positions. The crowd was incensed. Later that day Woodfull uttered his famous words

"There are two sides out there. One is trying to play cricket, the other is not. The game is too good to be spoilt. It is time some people got out of it".

On the third day Australian batsman Oldfield was struck in the head and sustained a fractured skull. Once again the crowds went crazy and Jardine and Larwood were their main targets. Later that day the Australian Board of Cricket sent a telegram to England protesting about the use of Bodyline tactics.


The telegram read:


"Bodyline assuming such proportions as to menace the best interests of the game, making protection of the body by the batsmen the main consideration. This is causing intensely bitter feeling between the players as well as injury. In our opinion it is unsportsmanlike. Unless stopped at once it is likely to upset the friendly relations between England and Australia."

The Complete Illustrated History of Australian Cricket says that "Parliamentarians and diplomats in Canberra and Whitehall joined in the controversy as the Test was played out. There were brawls in Australian hotels between supporters and critics of Bodyline, and while Fleet Street newspapers labelled Australians as squealers, Australian newspapers suggested somebody would be killed if Bodyline was not quickly outlawed".

England won the series, Bodyline was outlawed. Can't win? Change the rules. Soft Aussie gits. It was a man's game back then...

sorry, but i hope that wans't an englishman calling australian cricketers soft, especially after the complete capitulation of the english team this summer at the hands of the australians? just asking thats all

uh oh....aussies and brits about to go at it over cricket....since I don't understand the game, I think I'll just start taking bets and selling ringside seats!

Hmmn. No more guesses?

"No. No. You can't bite me; I'm South African!" and "I'm not a vampire! I'm a driving instructor...from Johannasburg!" are both lines by Alexei Sayle as the Vampire aka 'Harry the Bastard' in The Young Ones episode "Nasty". Okay, enough of my OT rant.