“After a few scrappy results, i thought my team were gonna romp to a big win against Sigla's unlucky Ogres. They had only scored 1 touch down before this game, and even the pesky dwarves had sunk 3 past them!

All went well in the first few turns, my black orcs managing to combine to pin down a few ogres - allowing my goblin to score his 3rd of the season. Yet with the ogre fightback my orcs went weak in the knees, allowing a pesky goblin to whizz thru and pass to an ogre for an equalising touchdown. With time running down on the clock, i managed to squeeze another td in before halftime with an amazing combination of dice rolls: my thrower running up the field, passing to a goblin, who ran up to my blitzer and handed off (who was in a tackle zone), blitzer than dodged out, then blitzed a little goblin who was in his way, leaving me to GFI on the last move: 2-1.

Sigla suffered horrible luck with bonehead, and this showed in the second half. Someturns 4 of them would stand around doing nothing, allowing me to get in a few blows. Yet still his goblins managed to dodge their way thru tight situations, getting the score back to 2-2.

Now, this was dangerous territory. How could my "mighty" orcs expect to be taken seriously as title contenders when the Miss Taunton Finalists were matching us?! On my last drive i had intended to form a mini-cage around my goblin up the field: yet an onslaught of ogres put an end to that. Yet, another great luck dice combination enabled me to score a winning td, spraying the ball across the field: my goblin ran from the side, back to my thrower, handed off, my thrower than ran towards the middle of the park and completed a pass to a waiting blitzer, who then ran onwards, having to go for it twice (one of which, of course, he failed... but i saved a reroll).

More bad luck for Sigla (a pitch invasion which stunned half his players) meant he couldn't even chuck a goblin to snatch a point outta the game. But a fine game all round - and 3 points in the bag and pressure on those undefeated Khemri. I'm just glad i equipped my thrower with "accurate skill" before this game, as he sure needed it (4 passes during the game!).

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