“Dwarf coach picking on the poor rats? We don't think so :)

We have been trying to allow Chchumnk an honorable death on the pitch for about 6 games now, since he aged a -ST. As an original team member and the teams all-time Cas leader, we felt it appropriate to let him go out in style, so we gave him Piling on with the aging roll, and let him go to work. If he had been able to reach 126spp and learn dauntless, I'd have given him a reprieve and kept him.

The game itself was a bloody affair, with the skaven crushed under the iron-shod boots of the dwarfs. But the dwarves underestimated how much bashing back the rats could do, and twice exposed the ball carrier to some rat ogre smackdown. Two of the Consonants three scores came on defense, after Grrrrpow blitzed the ball away from the Guinnes runner and a pair of gutter runners snuck in for a scoop'n'pass play to get beyond the reach of all the dwarfs.

The other score came on my own offense. After a Perfect Defense (*sigh*) left the entire dwarven team crammed up against my own on the line, I was unable to open up any significant hole to run though...so we ran through an insignificant one instead. We passed the ball to Zzupzzup, our AG5 gutter, who was in two tackle zones, then squeezed between a longbeard and a troll slayer and outdistanced the dwarf pursuit yet again.

Still, the highlight of the game for me was Chchumnk getting his proper send-off. I'd already had the money saved to replace him :)

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