“Handicaps were:

Illegal Drugs
Dusters
Iron Man (all 3 given to the same MA8 Blodge Tackle Blitzer)
Bad Press (made me lose the Get the Ref roll!)
Palmed Coin
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The Umbrae won the toss and elected to kick. The Falcons had problems penetrating, getting two Witches deep, but failing their ambitious dodge attempt with their AG5 Blitzer (needed a 3+ and some 2+s).

The Umbrae fouled the down blitzer (SI - MNG) and applied the defensive pressure, causing a KO (or 2?) but were unable to stop the Falcons from scoring.

On the next drive, the Umbrae seriously injured Zachariah Bloodmaul with their opening blocks (a third -AG heh) and advanced down the left sideline. The Falcons were annoyed with the foul and did a leap one dicer just to push the Umbrae Witch out of bounds :P

However, it was still an easy score for the Umbrae though they had to try the 2+s without any rerolls.

On the next drive, the Umbrae fans killed the ref! The Falcons had problems penetrating, with one Witch stunned (due to failing against DT after 2 successes) and the second stunned by a Blitz.

The Falcons found the going tough but managed to cage the ball and stall out the half to take a 2-1 lead into half time. Luckily for the Falcons, the fouls didn't do more than 1 KO? A bit of luck there for the Falcons as they rolled a 1 on a dodge (or leap?) and needed 3+ 3+ 2+ dodges (with Dodge reroll) to take the lead.

In the second half, the Umbrae started in offence and were unable to get past on the wing (Sidestep). The Falcons attacked the Umbrae DP, blitzing him and blocking him 4? times with 2 dice to no avail until they used a RR to buy the Pow (Blodge) and caused a RIP (apothed). The Falcons fouled him (BH)

The Umbrae had bad luck on their drive (used RR on blitz) and then failed a dodge, leaving the ballcarrier exposed.

The Falcons knocked the ball free and picked it up in a TZ, only to snakes their pass! The Umbrae again had bad luck (getting a double skulls on block) and their 2 dice blitz on the ball carrier didn't get the required Pow.

The Falcons attacked again, and 2 dice blitzed a skill-less lino onto the ball and a lucky scatter saw it being caught by the Falcon's witch! The Falcons screened her (could have positioned slightly better) and the Umbrae tried to blitz her, needing a 4+ dodge. The dodge failed and the Falcons took a 3-1 lead.

With no rerolls left (MadTias rolled a lot of double skulls, and skull/pows on blitzes that he rerolled), the Umbrae rolled a double skulls on the line of scrimmage after one of their players on the LOS caught the ball off a short kick.

The Falcons knocked him down, and collected the ball, putting it behind a screen of players. The Umbrae applied the pressure and the Falcons burnt a RR trying to set up a chainpush to free their preferred scorer and then failed the hand off in the endzone! However, it was covered by 2 players and when the Umbrae were unable to Pow the sidestepping Witch near the ball, it was an easy 2+ for the Falcons to run out 4-1 winners.
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A very tough match. Both of us played a bit slow (me slower) due to all the skills and lack of match practice with these teams. MadTias waited for me to sidestep at least once when I didn't have the skill heheh.

In the end though, it came down to the the dice, and whilst we both had a lot of double skull/pows on blitzes, MadTias also had a lot of double skulls using up his RR at times when he needed to score or risk losing it to a blitz thanks to my leapers.

I simply had the better luck when it counted and my players with AG5 etc were able to capitalise.

Although 2 MNG is annoying with the FUMBBL Cup coming up, I made my 126 roll without aging and the -AG is on a -2 AG player so no permanent damage :)

Anyway, good luck in the FC MadTias and see you on the pitch again sometime. ”