“Taking a tilt at prem for the first (and possibly last) time...the boys were pumped up, Snorriheim Bowl was electric with an atmosphere so tangible a bright wizard might have ignited it. It had been a long time since the bowl had revelled in this sort of atmosphere....it too, had been a long time since the lads, what was it...<a>anticipated</a> a game with so much relish. And so it was, with an excited plethora of plebians, the game kicked off and Snorriheim Bowl forgot the tribulations of the last four seasons.

All the anticipation seemed to have triggered some lost memories in the old guard (Frost, Glacial, Storm, Blizzard and the Penguin) and they directed play like the Vanguard of old. By turn three, they'd managed to suffocate the Predators' attack to a standstill. But alas, as it goes in premier, sometimes the most difficult situations ignite some of the most amazing plays. The orcs proceeded to pull off a string of 1d blocks that would make Southee proud and left The Walrus in the meds box. The orcy thrower also rose to the occasion and successfully extracted himself from the frying pan with a nimble dodge under pressure and shortly after one of our mummies was hammered into the badly hurt bin.

The ball still came free though and the lads looked good to run it in, but again, the orcish wall stepped up and smacked us a new bunghole while we missed our chances to blitz free. 0-0 at the half.

Second half we started down on numbers, but managed to avoid further losses and swung the play from left to right until we could force some holes in da wall as the orcs started scattering across the field. But again, several bungholes later we were forced to run the td in.

Last kickoff and things were looking rosy. But both our ko's failed to come back while the orcs managed to get their ko'd and morley'd onto the field. Nuffle seemed to have ordained it and so we started out down on numbers. Nuffle's confirmation came soon after as the orcs pummelled two more of our own off the field on the first drive and down three, soon five, the boys couldn't do anything to stop the tide that brought on the equaliser.

We had our chances in this one, but it was quite a show of brutality from the apocolypse and in the face of that we were probably pretty lucky to get away with the draw.

Twahnlow votes: Bit hard to pick, it was a pretty all-round effort from the orcs.

3 votes: #11 Smilodon Populator
Was everywhere and sent a stream of undead to the ko bin whenever he chose to blitz. His only mistake was going after some juicy bait early second half which left the rest of his team without the numbers to stop an eventual undead td.

2 votes: #8 Sarcophilus Harrisii
Did an all-round job, which matched his team efforts.

1 vote: #7 Hyaena brunnea

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