“Epic combat in round two of the Fumbbl Cup!

With two players out, this looked a very hard game on paper against a strong orc side, but the elves did get some nice handicaps (bad press, greatest, virus), and won the toss to receive. Things didn't start well though, Hysteria failing miserably to surf an orc blitzer (skull, pow/skull, reroll skulls). The greenskins got a surf in instead (mng), and surged forward to grab the ball, but by the skin of their teeth the elves managed to grab it back and sneak a TD in turn 6. Then a blitz kickoff result offered the chanced of a 2-0 lead, but decent defence from the orcs kept it to 1-0 at the half.
In the second, the orcs bashed their way forward in tradional style, whittling the elves down as they went, but losing a DP and their gobbo in the process. There was little the few elves left on the pitch could do to stop the equaliser and OT though.
Still, all the KO'd players got back, and receiving again the elves where able to score easily enough - helped by a thrown rock that reduced the orcs to 9 players v. 8 elves. Could they stop the orcs pulling back level? Well it didn't look good when Doh caused a couple of cas at the kickoff, and with 'both fans get the ref' we could expect more pain to come. But then, the orc thrower failed a gfi and stunned himself, and an elf could pick up and throw the ball back upfield. Some desperate elf defence and poor orc ball-handling were just enough to stop the equaliser.
Unlucky stboub, good game.
And on to round 3, this time 3 players mng and 2 of them niggled. It doesn't get any easier :)
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