“My first major match with a half decent team ( see:My hopeless WO attempt ) and it started badly, it was quite an even blocking match in the middle of the pitch but it seems my lizards forgot to wear thier armour! I manage to get the first foul in but fail to break armour with 6 assists and then watch my krox get fouled to BH with just 1. I fancy keeping him in the game so use my apo dodgily early. Second foul and my first dp gets ejected and the human drive racks up anoher few cas. T6 i manage to get 4 dice on the ball with frenzy, but all pushes and by that time i don't have enough players to stop him scoring. T8 i attempt a one turn but although getting more than enough pushes fail the pass to my skink.

So the 2nd half starts with me down a sarus and my best skink and i struggle to get any momentum. I make a break down the edge and the humans use thier wizard but although only managing to knock down 1/3 players still gets a 2db and knocks the ball free. I manage to recover the ball and work my way a little further down the side but ten he kncoks it free again and it scatters to his str6 ogre!! :( in a dilema i decide not to use my wizard as i can just about get a 2db - and fortunately roll a pow and afte surfing his bestplayer i manage to score in T15

So the game went to OT and it was 11 vs 11, however i was up 4 rr's to 0 and still had my wizard! The humans recieved the kick but without thier rr became in major trouble when then failed to pick the ball up deep. the next 4-5 desperate turns were fought out deep in the humans half until they are forced to attempt to make a break up field. By this time with a few select fouls and blitzes the humans are running a little low on players too. I decide to use my wizard on a human semi-cage but don't knock down the ball - just KO a lino who happened to be standing in the vacinity :) with a blitz on the ball i manage to knock him down and the game decends in to a mad scramble around the ball - skinks flying everywhere! it finally ends up again in the hands of his str4 blodge guy and it looks safe but for a dodge to assist by silibili and a 1db knocks him down again. this time my skinks manage to recver and getto safety . One last desperate blitz from the humans failed and the lizards were able to put away thier second and win the tie - definately one of the toughest games i've played in a long while - although i fear the next round may be a little tougher now with all my mng's :P”