Ben left at this time not because of the game presumably not to blemish his record any further.

John pursued a policy of drafting an optimum team and duly suffered by not playing enough games.In an early game against Owen I sacrificed a game to nobble 2 of his best players by playing a thug in the penalty shootout rather than going for the win.At the time he had a 3-0 record with everyone keen to trade with him. This policy slowed him down and by the time the final was played against John Wakefield he had lost his best players and duly lost convincingly.