Chapter 3 – Coach Gav.
Our study of the great coaches continues with a look at the greatest coach of the first Broken Sword League, that is if you measure greatness by leagues won. The coach is coach Gav the winner of season ones league.
Coach Gav and a Nurgle Blood Bowl team, not the obvious combination. The academic background of Coach Gav combined with his own great sporting achievements would place him more with the wood elves or at very least with a human team, but this was not the direction he wished to take. How exactly he ended up in the Nurgle city of Hel Ens after being brought up in the religious Mecca of St is unclear, but he did and the Nurgles welcomed him.
It is believed Coach Gav had to invest in powerful magic to protect his body from catching the nurgle rot that was running rampant throughout the city, luckily, as far as we know anyway; the rot has been kept from his body. With the blessing of Father Nurgle Coach Gav put together a team (some of the team was more together than other team memembers, it is a well documented fact that the young rookies would be responsible for the collecting of the body parts that fell from the rotters as they trained).
The start of the first season came, but for the opening games there was no sign of Coach Gav and The Chalice of Filth (the name given to his Nurgle team) this though was down to the fact that his beast of nurgle had escaped its cage and it had taken Coach Gav nearly two weeks to track it down through the sewer system and capture it again. When the Nurgles did reach the league they wasted no time in making their rotting, stinking presence felt.
Their style of play was broadcast from the start with the bandages the only remaining evidence of the Mummy Lydan Tyr after the opening match against the struggling Defenders of the Light. The violence and destruction seemed to energise the team (and seal the fate very early on for The Defenders) for the rest of the season.
With the stubbornness of the Dwarf Granitebacks and the tactics of the Norse the only teams to slow the Chalice’s progress to the league final and I guess you can say it was only fair that it was the Dwarves that they knocked out in the semi finals and the Norse Frost Giants that met their match in the final… Coach Gav and his rotting team of freaks had done what most Nurgle fans would have said was impossible he had taken the league cup.
The Nurgle’s had brought something different to the league, something to but a smile on most Blood Bowl fans face, something that had worked to great effect, they had brought mindless violence to the pitch and in doing so Coach Gav had claimed his place in the Nurgle and Blood Bowl history books. So what does the future hold for Coach Gav, will he take on the challenge of leading the Nurgle’s in the defence of their cup or will his greatness draw the attention of a new team wanting a winning coach for themselves at any cost. The league holds its breath in anticipation of Coach Gav’s return to the second season of the broken Sword Blood Bowl League…
