“FUMBBL Tour-200, round II.
Our orcs, having advanced on a cointoss after Morg N Throg failed to win it for my opponent (a turn 24 GFI tripup on his way into the endzone), face neophyte's strong-looking dwarves. We've had to spend our money replacing our AGI4 blodge blitzer who bit the dust in round 1, while they spend theirs hiring Grim Ironjaw. We weigh in at 192/188 vs 200/206.

Their niggled guard/MB/DP longbeard fails to show up so we each have 13 players. They win the toss and force us to kick. They knock over our three sacrificial LOS players and gang foul the black orc- badly hurt but their DP is also sent off! This means they don't get to form a cage on turn 1 and we're able to run a couple of blitzers around to cause trouble. We knock over the ball carrier twice and in general are making things very difficult for the dwarves. Our troll then steps up and seriously injures Grim Ironjaw! The dwarves use up their apothecary.. but it fails! From there on the ball is handed back and forth in a central brawl, and though we look slightly more likely to manage to break free we never manage it and the half ends 0-0.

12 orcs vs 11 dwarves are available for the 2nd half, they kick and roll up a blitz! This messes up our initial turn, but we still seem OK, recovering the ball and loosely caging it behind our troll. But a great blitz on turn 3 sees their strip ball runner dodge and push our blitzer, stripping the ball which bounces several times perfectly out of our pile of players and into a free square for him to pick up. When we fail to get a player by him on our turn he sprints downfield to score on turn 5. We will have 3 turns to try and equalise and make it into extra time!

Only 10 dwarves face us now. We lure a whole load of them over to one side by running our stand firm blitzer up that way- 4 run up to knock him over and gang DP foul him to the KO box. We counter by running our blitzer with the ball down the other sideline, into range of the endzone - getting as many players around him as we can. They are just about able to blitz a player out to stand in front of him. But it's no problem for us to make some 2d blocks and get him out of the way. Our blitzer has 8 squares to the endzone and we have a reroll... but the second GFI comes up as double ones!!

Well won neophyte, and good luck in round 3! Naming my new blitzer 'Dwarfstomper' didn't help us at all :D”