“Dear Vanyar,

Today was a great day for the Freeworld! Not only did we defeat the Isolationist and secure our trip to Mordor in the coming weeks, but we also feel that we have done the Freeworld a great service by eliminating the Isolationists chances and thereby allowing a more capable team to take their place, for they were inferior!

Indeed, it seems we have fathomed why these foul creatures whom dare to call themselves Elves are Isolationists… they stink! They stink with the stench of bitterness, anger and hate; when faced with our superior ball handling abilities all they could do was unchivalrously strike our men whilst down… but in the end it mattered naught, and they could only stricken the largest of us down with any great potency.

But we will fight another day, for we do not rely on strength but instead cunning and guile, and that fight will be in Mordor whilst they belly ache amongst their own kind, for no longer shall we regard them as cousins to our great and noble race!

The game itself was straight forward, even after they managed to arrange for myself, the greatest threat to them, to be accosted by the local constabulary on false charges prior to the game, even though they outnumbered us on all but the first drive, and even though they had secured the vile services of a Wizard… all of this was merely whistles and bells, misdirection.

We scored all too easily, managing to stall for half of the first half, only scoring when we were certain that if they were to score again we could better them again. They did just that, but only through great fortune, and we replied in kind as planned.

2 - 1

The second half they were fortuitous once again after a terrible assault on our LOS, then we were to receive. With but 9 players even then we knew we could simply hold the draw, but we waited to send a message to these creatures, and so for the remainder of the second half we stalled and frustrated them to the point that all they could do was target the few men we had whilst we blockaded our ball carrier away from their pathetic excuse of a defence… and we did just that.

3 – 2!

Now we shall bring glory to the Freeworld once again, glory to Vanyar once more!

Regards,
Torin

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I always expect a foulathon from Russo once he knows he’s beat… and I think this time around I got a full halves worth. :P Ironically it was not his DP that got the results though despite the Ref’s best efforts to give him chance time and time again.

In fairness to him he did have some bad dice at times, although not the dire turnover types or the failed to score types, just some pushes instead of pows, a couple failed dodges from my tackler and a failed lightning bolt, which is always annoying. In contrast he did manage a lucky POW on my blodge guy after I took the ball to score himself and also snakes by me from my AG5 to prevent him scoring again… I hate AG5.

But, I have to say, once again Russo delivered a top notch entertaining game, I never laugh so much when playing anyone else, and when he goes into foul mode I can just see the lights in his room darkening and the glare of the monitor lighting up his maniacal smile... amidst the eerie sounds of “baaaaaa”.

GG mate!




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