“WIL Season XXI - Round 3

Both teams come into this slightly roughed up. We lost a +AGI ghoul last game, plus have another one MNG'd so have only rookie ghouls and no subs at all, while they have a saurus MNG'd which is never great for lizards.

We opt to receive and immediately KO a saurus to garner a player advantage. We advance slowly and carefully but on T4 a 3d block goes awry and a zombie manages to -MA himself, though fortunately he regens. They then MNG another zombie and again he regens... very helpful given we have no subs!!

The following turn we score a BH and KILL on two skinks, turning the player advantage back in our favour... but they then manage a 1d block on a mummy for a BH... no regen!! That could be a game changer! They also manage a double skink blitz for 1d vs the ball carrier but even their last reroll can't get them the pow they need.

We push through into their half at last and they go for the 1d skink blitz again, getting a both-down to knock the ball free at the cost of MNG'ing the skink. But since we've also KO'd 2 more saurus (4/5 in the KO box now!) there's little they can do to stop us recovering and making it 1-0 on T8.

They get two chances to wake up their 4 saurus and unfortunately manage to get them all back so we are kicking off minus a mummy at 10 players vs their 9. T2 and they make the rush into our half with the ball in their STR1 AGI4 skink's hands... but we can unleash a 3d blitz on him with our tackle wight. He's stunned but the crowd toss the ball towards our endzone, and when a ghoul fumbles the pickup their last skink nearby can steal it and score... 1-1!

We have loads of time til the final whistle and use it to advance carefully upfield as they tenaciously attack the ball with everything they have. T7 and we make a -1 dodge away from their kroxi to seal the win.

GG belshamharoth!!”