I wish there were time to vote on both sides' moves - that last one would make an interesting poll between Christopher's move and the more dangerous play of making the bar. Anyway, over to the Herd - no escape just yet...
Spoiler
even though we can't undo the roll we screwed up last time, we can do the best to fix it. covering the blot on the 2 is better than pushing the blot to the ace or stacking another checker on the 5. 5-2.