“This was one of the weirdest matches I have ever played. Never before have I seen such a tremendous change of luck.

For the first 3/5 of the match I was badly dice raped. I'm talking failing around 70 % of my GFI's, stacking up skulls and losing countless blitzes because my newly purchased rat ogre turned out to be severly retarded.

When Team Green Power had scored 3-1 I had actually started thinking about retiring the team, since it seemed to be cursed. Then the luck switched...

I get the kickoff, and it looks like Nuffle will keeep taunting me. The fans invade the pitch and takes 6(!) of my guys down, and only one of Shinty's. I'm down to a 5 man rush towards 10 elves. I divide my guys to two little teams, one rushing ahead and trying to cover a gutter runner, and the other using some of my downed players as protection to desperately try to cover my thrower. Shinty responds with failing an early GFI causing a turnover. I make some wise crack about being blown away by actually having some luck going my way...I was going to see more of that.

Somehow I make the TD, and is left with the rather unpleasant position of having 2-3 vs a wooden elf team. I place my 3 skilless linemen on the LOS and the rest in position for the possibility of Shinty's thrower fumbling the pickup. I would rather lose with 2-4 and having tried for it, than to defend a 2-3 loss. Shinty stacks up basically all his team around my poor linemen on the LOS.

Time for kickoff...and here comes the blitz!

My 4 flank players are left totally unprotected, and I can basically run 7 steps in and make a cage, while the gutter runner in the middle catches the ball.

Mean while I'm trying to hold up as many elves as possible around the LOS. Knowing that this will be the situation when I screw up my chance of tieing, I make a desperate 1 die blitz vs Shinty's str 4 elf. A hit! I know have my prehensive tail player in the middle of all his elves!

From here it kept getting bizarre. Trying to shake lose his LOS players, Shinty throws a 2 die block against my rat ogre. 2 * skull/hit. My rat ogre goes down, Shinty's str 4 elf ends up with a SI, and most important, it's a turnover.

It's turn 6 and I decide to play my luck streak. Instead of running the ball in I plant my gutter runner in the corner, protected with only a lineman with block/tackle. I don't want to give him a 2 turn offensive against me. I manage to SI another of Shinty's players and position myself to tie up as many elves as I can.

Shinty's turn and the bad luck just keeps pouring over him. He doesn't get even near my gutter runner and I can walk the 3-3 TD in leaving him with just one turn left.

Since I didn't want to take any chances with injury time possibilites and I had my apo left I put 3 linemen up on the LOS and the rest forming a neat line just outside my end zone, just waiting. Shinty decides to go for some casualties instead, and starts wailing on my poor rats. The treeman KO's a lineman, and another one is downed. Shinty attempts a 2+ dodge to position his guys around my last lineman, and of course he fails his roll and gets another SI.

Thanks for the match, Shinty. Despite my bad luck in the first part of the match, you really got a tough deal...especially with the 3 SI's. Take care and good luck with the team. You have some really nice skill rolls in the back, so that team might end truly magnificent further on!”