Munich Ravens

We have the right bits and pieces, but no one really knows, right? So, you know, you go into the first year, you start winning a few games, but loads of teams have done that.

You know, Munich have done that their first year.

Ryan Fire even did it their first year.

Paris did that a little bit their first year.

You've got to think, okay, we've got to have some sort of variety you know you can't just have the same thing over and over again we're just going to beat you with our fast athlete over the top because i mean quite frankly the guys who play this sport in this continent yes they they are educated right they're not just guys who are just gonna turn up and make the same mistake over and over and over and over again they're gonna learn so you can't keep you can't run the same basic gimmick and expect to score from it because by this point in the league no idea what that was by this point in the league by this point in the season as well guys know okay american receiver over there all these other threats have not done anything let's just double cover triple cover the american guy quarterback's not going to throw it to their native wide receiver three who's dropped every pass this season you know yeah let's

just look at how um the you know jump over to the other league for the sake of conversation let's look at how the nordic storm ran their offense in the final when they pretty much when they did a really similar thing to the Munich Ravens.

It was, they mixed it up.

A lot of the time it was Fons going downfield and the American receiver Bolio was running perimeter screens and just moving them around the formation, regardless of changing the play or whatever, just moving your A import receiver around the formation opens up so many possibilities.

sucks that they lost Henderson for that because I think Henderson's a great person to build around, but you win some, you lose some.

Yeah, but honestly, go find a young guy like in what Munich did with Tabor.

Go sign him to a multi-year deal right off the bat.

It doesn't hurt you if you cut him a year after.

That was a big rematch that we wanted to talk about.

Now, the 10-1 at the time, Munich Ravens against the 10-1 at the time, Nordic Storm.

They faced off in Innsbruck, in Tivoli Stadium, in that beautiful, beautiful Tiro region of Austria.

for the final of the first EFA season, and we kind of thought it would be a tight, tight one, given the fact that the first game between these two teams was very tight.

And all their starters came back this time, and we said, we're expecting a tight game.

I think we were quite wrong with that one.

We were quite wrong with that, because Nordic Storm came to play, and the Munich Ravens came to be played with.

No, I think the game was a lot tighter than the scoreline suggests.

All right, let me just read out this summary of the game that I wrote.

So Nordic Storm made history on Saturday, beating the Munich Ravens 48-28 in Innsbruck to become the first ever EFA champions.

Storm took control early with JJ and Clark, throwing four touchdown passes as they built a commanding 28-6 halftime lead.

Munich threatened after the break, but Storm always had an answer.

I mean, we want to see them fight it out in the game, not with each other, but in the game.

Exactly.

So basically we have these two teams and we hadn't played Munich Ravens before this season.

We played in the league, we played in last season, there were divisions, so we didn't get to play all the teams in that league.

I think it was ran better than the AFLE.

And the Nordic Storm and Munich Ravens look like true football clubs.

They don't look like Moshposh mercenaries who are just there together on the field.

They look conducive as a unit.

So I think that they deserve their flowers there.

As far as going into the championship game this weekend, we've seen these two teams, the Munich Ravens and Nordic Storm, go head-to-head twice already this season.

That first one was a little bit more of an insight to where I think you're going to get into the championship game.

That was a last-second drive by Munich to take it away from Nordic, and I think they got a big stop there at the end.