“FUMBBL SMACK Scheduled Legend CXXVII: 1st Round
Aaah, Vamps vs Slanns, an exciting showdown I was looking forward to. And after meeting CroixFer in the FC and losing, I needed a revenge against this fantastic coach :)

After seeing his team with a few Ag5 Vamps, I knew I would expect my cage to be broken regularly on offense, but also that he would be very hard to defend against. And that's exactly what happened. The first drive didn't go very smoothly, the carrier got knocked over, but the ball stayed fairly safe with the main Vamps marked by the Blitzers. That's went I probably did the silly mistake of not stalling and I went for the score... It would have been easy, still risky to stall, but easily doable, and fairly safe with all the Ag4 I had too...

The Ventrue Lords went for a two-turn TD and pulled it off easily - second mistake was to allow a push-push for the two-turn when I could have tried to get the ball off him... I then hoped for the OTT, having a reroll, but the fans didn't agree and threw poor Bufo a rock... :)

The 3rd turn of the second half saw the St5 Vampire failing his Blood Lust, and failing his dodge out to feed on a Thrall, giving the Bengals an unexpected opportunity. Which of course leads to the third mistake... Bad positioning and initial block forced us to cancel the blitz on the carrier and to concentrate on marking the potential receivers.

But Nuffle was watching over us. The following turn gave us the blitz and pow we needed, as well as the divine bounce that nearly ended up in the Lords' end zone. I went for the Vampire near the sideline as on the other side it would have been picked up easily by Friedrich... The bounce was a risk I took, and thankfully paid off...

The Lords picked the ball up again, and this is went I went for the next mistake (after watching the replay), to ignore the receiver and go for the carrier. He DID get knocked down however, and the Blitzer DID catch the bouncing ball, but once again I made another boo-boo and tried to dodge him out... He failed.

The Lords went for the long pass, but Nuffle was still watching over the Bengals. Bufo intercepted it, passed it to Aga for a 2-1 score.

I think we need another game CroixFer to set things right! :D

Thanks a lot for the awesome game, sorry for the underserved win; you're again a brilliant and fun coach to play against!”