“Round 4 of the premiership and we've yet to register a win.. gotta get some points to pull ourselves out of last place today!!

We kick off and they quickly KILL a wrzombie (regen!) before grabbing the ball by one sideline and caging at that side. We push players in around them, trying to swarm them against the side of the pitch, and it seems to be working, but they can pull their way out of it very nicely on T5 with some 1d blocks. It looks like they will chain push themselves clear on T6... til the ogre gives up a turnover on a 2d block! We take advantage to knock the ball from their thrower's hands and steal with a ghoul. Their players can't really stand up or they'll get crowdpushed, and their best bet of a -2d tackle blitz comes to nothing, so we can easily push through towards the endzone to score on T8 (the humans skip their T8 in desperation!)

1-0 and we are receiving for the 2nd half, great start! We score two early KOs for a player advantage, though then get our DP sent off on a stun-foul. T3 and they manage a 1d blitz to POW the ball free, though we recover without problems. They then gang up on our STR7 uber-mummy to 1d blitz him over with their STR4 thrower, before surrounding him and sending in a DP... it's a BH (regens) and a sending off!

We are playing solidly, not trying for a quick score but rather trying to grind them down for the safe 1-0.. until T6 when they rush the ball carrier and we have a woeful T7 that fails to make it safe. On their T7 they 1d pow him and steal the ball, and on out T16 we can 2d blitz him over, but then fail a GFI to make it safer. They can 1d pushback our wight, and then their jump-up blitzer can make the 4+ pickup in the rain for the 2nd time running and dash in for a last second equaliser.

Argh!!!

GG spubbbba :(”