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Well it was always going to be challenging playing up some 31 TS and the dice made it that much harder.

The Return started in offence and scored easily on a string of 2+ rolls.

The Humans played with a cage and advanced cautiously till they had some average blocking after moving the ball carrier in as an assist. This allowed the Return to push one of the players back and set up a 2 dice block on the ball carrier and recovered the ball briefly.

The Amazons knocked the ball carrier over and a lucky scatter saw the ball land in the hands of a Return player and he caught the ball, then made a long bomb or long pass to send the ball deep.

The Amazons knocked the ball carrier over, only to have the Return pick it up again. The Amazons had 4 dice on the Return ball carrier and came up with only a push at best and it was an easy Return score for a 2-0 lead.

Both coaches played well and unfortunately it was the Return who had the extra luck to take a 2-0 lead.

The Return then made a mistake by putting all 3 of their sidestepping players back and daring the Amazons to do a one turn chain push TD. The Return got a Blitz and applied some backfield pressure with one of their LOS players who was unmarked, but the Amazons made their chain pushback TD (needing a 4+ and 4+ dodge with Dodge reroll and 2 GFI).

The Amazons started in offence in the second half. A pitch invasion stunned 4 Return players and opened up a gap on the right wing. The Amazons sent a few players down that side only to fail their 3+ Sure Hands ball pick up on the left side of the field.

The Return surged forwards. The Amazons were under pressure but could get the ball to safety with just a couple of 3+ rolls with Sure Hands and a team reroll. However, the pick up was again failed and the Return made a couple of 2+ rolls to steal the ball and score.

3-1 down and the Return have a 'Bad Kick' that goes very very deep and towards the sidelines. Another lucky break to put pressure on the Amazons. It would be very difficult to score twice now with the extra distance the ball had to cover.

The Return applied their defensive pressure to slow the Amazons down who used a cage once more to protect the ball from their faster agile opponents and scored late in the second half.
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Both coaches played pretty well this game, and the teams were pretty close so the final result was heavily affected by my opponent's good luck in the first half (making that long pass/long bomb and then surviving 4 dice of hits on his ball carrier) and then my bad luck in the second when I could not pick up the ball and conceded a turnover.

Without either of these events, I had a decent shot of getting a 2-2 draw with a long second half drive but the dice made it just too difficult. Not a dice rape by any means, and not saying that I would have beaten Falcone with more even dice, but it would have been a closer game (instead of pretty much game over 2 turns into the second half).

Anyways, no permanent injuries to my team and no FF loss so no biggie. Falcone's team however suffered a -1 AV on a Str 4 player so you might say he had the worse luck overall as I would rather lose a game anyday than take a permanent injury myself heh.

Anyways, Falcone was a good sport and a very good opponent so I wish him and his team well in the future. ”