“WIL Round VII

We're up against Krytie's ogres, with both teams needing a win. They can escape relegation while we could win the division and be making our way to the premiership..

They have just 5 ogres and 6 gobbos but three of the big guys have block (one even has tackle!) so it's all to play for. Any injuries we can cause will make this a lot easier.

We opt to receive and on T1 get in a great start, -AV injuring their already niggled ogre with a DP gang foul, meaning they decide not to apo him. We then push forward while the ogres try a couple of gobbo missiles at our ball carrier, which come to nothing. Meanwhile we've put two gobbos in the BH box while keeping the ball safe near their endzone.

This doesn't stop them from using their gobbos as anti-ghoul missiles as they fumble another on T5 and then finally get one airborne on T6... but he sails past and into the crowd where he's beaten to a niggle!

Our rookie mummy niggles an ogre on T7 - their apo saves - and we get a random zombie sent off trying to foul their block/tackle ogre. T8 and we score (after setting up an unusual 3dice blitz vs an ogre) to take the lead. The ref signals for injury time, which will give them 2 turns instead of 1 before half time. They use the extra turn to advance into our half but in the end a perfect TTM set of rolls means they would have scored even in a single turn: 1-1!

We kick off vs just 7 for the second half- we can't let them score now! This time one of our fans takes things into his own hands, with a rock stunning their block/tackle star ogre on the LOS. We engage the players on the line, only pushing through after the ball slowly, and they take advantage of a double 1 GFI from a ghoul trying to blitz the ball carrier to run down one side. We put in 4 dice of blitz vs the gobbo but can't knock him over and he makes a run for our endzone. T4 and a block/tackle zombie blitzes him over with a RR for a stun- phew!

We still need to get the ball the full length of the pitch and won't have many turns to do it. And in fact on T5 a ghoul drops a handoff using our last reroll so we still don't have the ball or even have it back into their half. T6 and we redeem ourselves, KO'ing two ogres and succesfully picking up the ball and legging it down into their half with it, out of range of all their players. We stun both remaining gobbos (no more missiles!) and run in the winning TD just before the final whistle.

GG krytie!!”