“first kick off and i'm reciving and get the ref!! :) a strong first half for me results in 4 cas and a t8 score withhim using his wizard, but not being able to retrive the ball. 2nd half starts and the elves do a quick 2 turn as expected, leaving me to startmy drive with 6 turns left. 2 casat the start of this drive and things are looking good. but krox bone heading 3 turns in a row causes my cage to slow and i give away a sloppy 2db to my ball carrier - whihc ofc rolls pows, scatters the ball out of the cage and the elf gets the resulting 4+ pick up and pass of and runs off down the pitch. 2-1 down but i still have 3 turns to go. I send a few players down the ptch and secure plenty of space down the wing for a quick 2 turn. but i fail to pick up the ball... no worries as the elves can't retrive it and although they disruptmy play further up the pitch i still have plenty of players and open them up ready to score t8. but i fail the pick up again... this time it's a little worse as the elves are able to surround my 2 potential skink recievers and get a tz on the ball. with soe clever pushes i manage to free up a skink as best as possible and leave myself with a 4+ pickup and 4+ handoff, witha couple of dodges and gfi's, which is about as good as i could have hope for...however, i failed the pickup...

i felt that after my strong first half i should definately have won this one, butgot a little sloppy on my cage, that maybe didn't need to move up the pitch quite as fast as i ran it, then left myself open to a lucky turn swinging the game. Would have liked to see OT, as that seemed the obvious outcome, but nuffle had other ideas...

gl for the rest of the tourney goblinen :)”