Handicaps and the coaching staff

DaFoola · Post by **DaFoola** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 4:45 pm

This applies specifically to the "Mickey Finn" result, but is more generally applicable to understanding certain Blood Bowl terms:

The "Mickey Finn" result on the handicap table indicates that "a member of the opposing team's coaching staff" is unavailable for the match. Does this term mean simply the Head and Assistant coaches, or can the result also be applied to Cheerleaders and the Apothecary?

As I have interpreted the rule, the "coaching staff" includes All non-player members of the team - is this correct?

Thanks in advance

Post by **GalakStarscraper** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 4:56 pm

That's pretty much how we play it ... Apothecary and Asst. Coaches are both available ... wizard too if he freebooted one.

Galak

tchatter · Post by **tchatter** » Wed Dec 18, 2002 1:53 am

I had always looked at it that an APO or a WIZ weren't part of the coaching staff. And that was how I had just ruled on it in the challenge league...

BUT... I just found on p27 (1.3) that it states that Wizards used to be hired as a permanent member of a team's coaching staff...

Doesn't state this with APO's or Cheerleaders though.

Honestly, I still wouldn't count Wiz, Apo, or Cheerleaders as part of the coaching staff. The WIZ is almost a player, not really a coach. The APO is just that, he doesn't perform any coaching duties. And cheerleaders... well, they don't coach much either.

Now if you want to change WIZ and APO to just staff, and then change Mickey Finn to reflect that... but the way I read it and interpret it is that APO's and WIZ's aren't staff...

Actually, I just found justification for my interpretation:

Page 17 (1.3) under the heading COACHING STAFF, the sub headings are:
HEAD COACH, ASSISTANT COACHES, and CHEERLEADERS. So I would say that WIZ's and APO's aren't included in Mickey Finn.