“Our pygmies' vs another skink team coached by Ropetus.

We place a 5SPP pygmy under where the ball is due to land... he jumps for the catch... and he's been KO'd!! The ball may actually have been bigger than him! We start well with our first block from a kroxi niggling a skink- using up their apo to save him. From there though it's excellent defending from the skinks, who soon have the ball freed by the sideline - sidesteppers and frenziers keeping us from going near it. They grab it and leg it down to our end where we can't catch them. We try and cause some injuries but only succeed in filling up their KO box. They score easily on turn 8.

4/5 of their KO's wake up, while only 1/3 of ours do- leaving a kroxi in the KO box. It's 10 vs 10 and we're kicking while 1-0 down; doesn't look good! And indeed they are all over us, knocking us about left and right and scoring by turn 4. 2-0!

Our kroxi wakes up but we still only have 9 with more KOs failing to recover.

They put a nice kick down by the side of the LOS and then watch as our first block sees a kroxi roll triple both-down, giving them a shot at the ball! We can't stop them running upfield to score again on the last turn of the half after stalling for a couple of turns.

And to continue the story of failure that's haunted our whole match, we can't knock over a single skink on the line of scrimmage in our final turn, nor manage the completion to skillup a jaguar warrior.

Well won Ropetus, a convincing thrashing!”