“Up against Cribble's brand new dark elves + 110k of inducements (a bribe)

We opt to receive and start things off with a gobbo sent off fouling. Then our claw/MB troll manages to BH a lineman and we rush down one side. We see a gobbo BH'd just before we make it 1-0 on T4. We now have 11 vs their 10 as we kick off again. The kick lands in their endzone so we rush a couple players downfield to chase it. They fail the pickup twice so we get a blitz in on one player but fail to knock him over. Finally on T7 their runner picks up in a TZ, dodges away, GFI's twice and makes the pass to an elf at the half way line. Argh!

We only need a 3+ dodge to 2d blitz him... but fail the dodge with a RR and they easily make it 1-1 at half time, though not before BHing our troll (regen) and niggling a thrower (apo -> MNG). They have also fouled 4 turns in a row, finally having to use their bribe on the final one.

2nd half and we have just 9 vs 10 with our MB SV in the KO box still. Our first blitz sees our troll double-skull and it doesn't look like it's going to get much better than that til on T3 the dark elves drop a passed ball. We dodge through for a blitz and steal with a gobbo- but only for a single turn. They POW him over, recover the ball and watch as we burn up our last RR trying to dodge blitz him. We throw players in the way but they can do no wrong as they dance upfield to make it 2-1 on T7.

We knock over a few players and (with the help of a touchback) make a TTM downfield to make it 2-2! They have one turn left which they use for a T16 foul that kills a gobbo.

GG Cribbleobblepie”