“WIL Lion Conference VII - Round 3

After Round 2 was a walkover my girls came up against these rats... Things started ok.. depsite not receiving, a solid defence was made... and in turn 2/3 the girls inflicted two RIPs in a row (apoth saving teh gutter, but lost the ag4 thrower!). The rats followed this up with an SI niggle on an already niggled linewoman... no great loss.

However, the rats got themselves in to a scoring position around 4/4, but opted to stall a little. This proved their undoing as the KO's box rapidly filled up and the rats suffered an SI. They proceeded to score, but the 3 KOs didn't come back and they were already 2 players permanently out and the apoth used. They went into turn 5/4 with 9 players on the pitch.

By turn 6/6 the Rat Ogre had gone into the BH box and the zons looked odds on to equalise. With 6 rats left on the field, the rats mounted a desperate defence. A decision to stall in turn 8/7 almost undid my team as a 1db blitz splatted the ball carrier, and the remaining rats clustered around it. It took some good dice to get to the ball again and go over for the equaliser. 1-1 and into the 2nd half.

The rats managed to get the bulk of their KOs back and field 10 rats, and the girls pressed on to try and make their numbers count. However a rerolled double 1 on pick up left the zons exposed in defence. This was followed by another failure to pick up on a 2+ after the reroll had been used on a block to clear the only tackle zone, which double skulled. The gutters made a simple play and the zons were 1-2 down in turn 2/2 of the 2nd half.

Things weren't looking great for a win!

By turn 4/5 the rats had lost 2 more gutters... 1 RIP'd from a failed leap.

Turn 5/5 meant the girls were smelling blood now and a possible win and pressed home the advantage... perhaps throwing caution to the wind... which proved their undoing. The ball carrier was blitzed and Dumped Off, which was intercepted. The offending rat was soon blitzed and the ball spilled unfavourably. It was meakly guarded and an ag4 ma8 rat picked it up and launched it deep back in to the zons half in turn 6/6. Eventually the girls had to resort to a desperate play for a draw...

...the ag4 thrower (with no rerolls left) ran back, gfi, picked up the ball, completing a pass back to a line zon, who gfi twice and successfully handed off to an ag4 thrower in a tackle zone, who dodged/ran the 6 squares, and promptly failed the one gfi required for a TD. Of course, had I been Purplegoo I would have made that! :-P

The 6 remaining rats went crazy in celebration and the amazons could only look up at the score board in disbelief. They had done all the right things, but at 3 important points the dice had failed them.

Well played Ludo... We got our revenge through depleting your numbers... but it did little to cure the hurt from that loss! :-P

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