“The Skoundrelz faced a skink team in their first match after the Stunty Rookie Rumble final, and it would turn out to be a weird 'un...

The sneaky goblins got themselves a great start by preparing properly. Some shroom juice in the skinks water supplies gave three of them strong hallucinations which at times kept them off the pitch. The fanatic Dunga also made a fantastic charge where he spinned through the opponents ranks and KO'd a skink and the adept of sotek on the first turn.

Then things just started to get crazy. Murk, who made his debut for the Skoundrelz, killed himself on a regular dodge and opened up the ball for a TD for the skinks. The opponents ran the ball in and to throw a pinch of salt in the wounds the ref banned both Vroom Vroom the ripper and Dunga from the rest of the match. And in turn both of the Luffa knock outs recovered.

When Kutz suffered a groin sprain soon after the next kickoff I thought I almost gave up...but this match had a few more twists in it. In an amazing turn (6) the Skoundrelz scored two crowd pleasing fatalities. First Grim kicked the annoying dive tackler/leaper Peggers II to death and then Reeko cut another skink in half with his saw. This boosted the morale of the remaining gits, who made a charge with the ball for a late TD. It almost worked, but Santa fell and RIP'ed himself on a failed dodge and a skink was able to stop the charge completly with a suicidal charge that left both the skink and the ball carrier prone.

I had a feeling that the ref would ban the rest of my cheaters, so I gangfouled with my bomber...just to see him ejected for causing a stun. And then the ref of course booted my remaining chainsaw.

The 2nd half meant 5 regular goblins (2 dive tacklers) vs 6 skinks. But Kub da Bomba wasn't happy about being banned for his foul and kept playing from the sidelines. On the kickoff he threw a bomb and desintegrated The Yarn Spinner, which leveled the odds.

An unfortunate block opened up the chance and the goblins made good use of their dive tacklers to tie the skinks up. They battered the remaining foes and snatched up the ball while the dive tacklers made sure that the pursuers were kept at bay. I somewhat cowardly stalled for 2 turns since pluto67 could have gotten his adept of sotek back from KO and another injury would have cost me a lot.

Pluto responded with a gangfoul on his turn 8, which I think is a perfectly fair response to a stall. Fortunately for me he only had 3 players to foul with, so it didn't cause any injury.

Thanks for the match, Pluto. I guess it's no wonder that the skinks are disappearing when it ends up like this ;)”