Recognized as a Blood Bowl genius, Belly Parkles has coached three squads to the Blood Bowl Cup Championship Game--the Old York Giants, The New Ringland Hate-Riots, and the Old York Yettis. He relocated to Maimey, lured by the promise of a retirement on the area's renowned swamp-golf courses. Rather than chipping skink heads into Kroxigor's mouths, however, Parkles is now helping Spearinyou select the most talented and violent skinks and Kroxigors to put out on the field.
With experience coaching humans, giants (before they were outlawed), and beastmen, Parkles applies his same keen eye for talent to reptiles these days holding to his old adage that "If they don't bite your face off when they're pollywogs, they won't bite your face off when they grow up."
"It's simple, really," says Parkles on judging Blood Bowl talent. "A Blood Bowl player needs to be able to do three things, run, hold onto the ball, and murder and maim other players. With my other teams, I liked to have all my players able to do all of those things. With lizardmen, you have to think more of the team as a whole. We got Saurus's can bite two heads off at once but couldn't hold the ball if it was shoved up their tails, and we got skinks that can run like the stinky swamp wind, but couldn't beat their way out of a bag of halfling maiden--and, and yes we've tried that in practice. So here, it's all about putting the right pieces together. It's very cerebral, a thinking man's game really--well, a thinking and killing man's game that is."
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