The Coventry Jets travelled to the Worcester Royals, who were confident of recording their first win of the season. The Royals started the game with the ball, and immediately drove down the pitch, with good throwing from Matt Aston and good catching from wide receiver Sam Emblen.

Unfortunately, the Royals couldn’t turn this progress into points, and the Coventry Jets took the ball. With the defence on the field missing key players due to injury, the Royals struggled to contain the Jets strong running game, and allowed numerous touchdowns through.

The offence continued to play well, and Chris Mortimer scored two 50 plus yard touchdowns in the first half. However, the Jets would not be denied a comprehensive victory, and the final score was 61-13.

The Staffordshire Stallions played Worcester Royals at Blessed Edwards school, in the second home game of the season for the Royals. The game started brightly for both teams defensive units, as both teams struggled to move the ball early on.

However, the Royals picked up three key injuries, and Emil Ljung with a torn tendon, Andrew Leigh with the broken ribs and Fran Rizzo with a broken collarbone. With these three key players out, the royals defence struggled and Stafford started to run away with the game.

Tempers were flying high in the third quarter, and a fight broke out between the two teams over a very trivial matter. The referees calmed the situation down and the game continued until the final whistle without further incident. The final score was 33-0 to the Stallions.

The Worcester Royals travelled to defending national champions Birmingham Lions, who have a perfect record for the season. The Lions started well and scored two touchdowns in quick succession. After this, the Royals defence tightened, the royals held their own and the scoring rate dropped.

The Royals took a small squad to the Lions den, and because of this there were players playing out of position. All of these players stepped up and played well, in particular, Andrew Leigh played centre, linebacker and defensive end.

The Royals struggled to move the ball, only completing two passes all game against the national champions. However, the defence played exceptionally well, holding Birmingham to a score line 39-0.

On the 23rd of January, the Worcester Royals went to Nottingham to play the NTU Renegades. The Royals opened play with a decent kick return from Chris Mortimer, and the offence took to the field. The opening drive was unsuccessful, with the offence struggling against a physical Renegades defence.

NTU’s offence also struggled on their first drive, with Richard Penwright catching the first of his two interceptions of the day. The Royals took to the field once more and again struggled to gain any momentum, and had to punt the ball away.

Once NTU got the ball back however, they started to run the ball well, and their strong running back broke numerous tackles and scored two touchdowns in quick succession.

After these two touchdowns, the Royals heads dropped slightly, and even with a good completion form Mike Burnage to Dael Gethings the Royals still could not put points on the board. The game progressed in this way, with NTU scoring more points, and the game ended 33-0 to the Renegades.