“The Wicked Welsh Women (from now on WWW) entered the pitch with dark visions of killed teammates tumbling around in their minds. Dwarves in the first match, talk about tough beginning.
The discussions in the locker room had been grim, critizism of Mordachai for not hiring an apothecary the most common topic. The hushed (and not so hushed) voices became silent as soon as Mordachai stepped in through the door. He said:
"I know this is a tough team to meet, but if you give it your best and just hang in there, we will be able to come out, not only victorious, but with enough players to win the next game as well..!"
Then he had quickly gone over the game strategy and ordered his players out to the pitch for warm up. When the whistle blew for first kick-off the tension in the WWW players was sky high.
As it turned out, the game couldn't have gone much better..! The luck began after the Diggers runner Boromir Balinson had to be taken off field badly hurt, after doing a desperate block while holding the ball. The ball scattered off field and was thrown deep into the middle of the pitch, where Talaith quickly picked it up and brought it far away from the dwarves. A couple of blitzer so get the few dwarves on defense out of the way later the TD was a fact. 1-0 to the WWW.
When Ridit Deepcutter went down on the second block after kick-off the WWW got a second chance to score a defensive TD and they took it. With a brilliant (lucky) play in the last Turn of 1st half the ball was passed to Myfanwy who took some extra long steps and went for it over the TD line.
2-0 in half time and that was good, for the 2nd half would not bring any more goals. The dwarves put on a very good defense, and the WWW just couldn't seem to push over the edge to score that third TD.
When the game was over, the WWW had won 2-0. No injuries had been suffered on either team, the WWW fans were happy and enough money was made to hire that apothecary. Thank you for the match!”
“It was a sad state of affairs in the Diggers dugout after an appalling display in Rnd 1 of the Fumbbl preseason. The scoresheet read 0-2 and the injuries amongst the stout longbeards from Delzhoun numbered way in excess of what was being experienced in the dugout of the opposition...
When asked for a reason why his team had been a) comprehensively outplayed and b) smashed to pieces, Captain Wulfgar Wyrmaxe replied "Baagh, we aint no playin no wimmin! We aint able da hit da fair lasses... we wuz tinking of our sisterfolk in da mines of Delzhoun, we couldna hurt em... its against our fair nature"
Fair point, you don't hit girls... but surely Wyrmaxe had issues with the fact that the girls had hit them - and hard!
"Nah, we wuzza just wrestlin wid em. We aint hurt none... weez have a full squad for next week..."
The rest of the conversation was then drowned out as the Wicked Welsh Women came past the dugout and the language and expletives heard from them made a veteran campaigner like myself blush... these Amazon mean business...
And as for the Dwarves... well they had a long ride home to think about their sorry display, but there's always next week!
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Mordachai, thanks for the game! Good luck for the season. Glad to see neither of us hurt.... but well played!”
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The discussions in the locker room had been grim, critizism of Mordachai for not hiring an apothecary the most common topic. The hushed (and not so hushed) voices became silent as soon as Mordachai stepped in through the door. He said:
"I know this is a tough team to meet, but if you give it your best and just hang in there, we will be able to come out, not only victorious, but with enough players to win the next game as well..!"
Then he had quickly gone over the game strategy and ordered his players out to the pitch for warm up. When the whistle blew for first kick-off the tension in the WWW players was sky high.
As it turned out, the game couldn't have gone much better..! The luck began after the Diggers runner Boromir Balinson had to be taken off field badly hurt, after doing a desperate block while holding the ball. The ball scattered off field and was thrown deep into the middle of the pitch, where Talaith quickly picked it up and brought it far away from the dwarves. A couple of blitzer so get the few dwarves on defense out of the way later the TD was a fact. 1-0 to the WWW.
When Ridit Deepcutter went down on the second block after kick-off the WWW got a second chance to score a defensive TD and they took it. With a brilliant (lucky) play in the last Turn of 1st half the ball was passed to Myfanwy who took some extra long steps and went for it over the TD line.
2-0 in half time and that was good, for the 2nd half would not bring any more goals. The dwarves put on a very good defense, and the WWW just couldn't seem to push over the edge to score that third TD.
When the game was over, the WWW had won 2-0. No injuries had been suffered on either team, the WWW fans were happy and enough money was made to hire that apothecary. Thank you for the match!”