“Facing off for their first games of the tournament the newcomers Blud Red Sunz vs. the Amethyst Brothers, for this second match of the newly minted London to Dundee Challenge Cup.
The orcs won the coin toss and elected to receive the ball first, setting up for a controlled drive down the nearside. With typical greenskin aggression they marched slowly up the pitch bashing aside Amethyst's players before Lemmy Chukka ambled over the line to score; 1-0.
Lining up for the 2nd down and with half-time fast approaching it was clear the Amethyst Brothers had a tough ask against a raucous greenskin mob. Undeterred the boys lined up and drove hard at the orcs forcing a few feet of space on the far-side which the Blud Red Sunz rushed to counter. However the Brothers executed a perfect switch handing off between not one, not two, but three players and charging through a gap that was blitzed in the Sunz' near side defence. Confusion reigned in the orcs front line and Steve Jodan skipped one to level the score at 1-1.
At the start of the 2nd half the Brothers line was looking ragged with players still out cold from a bruising first half they were down to 10 on the field. The Sunz sensing a turnover all rushed up on the scrimmage line and attacked. But again the Brothers calmly held the orcs up until their blitzers were able to crack open a space and allow their catcher to dart through. In a last ditch tackle an orc blitzer and the capering goblin, Poor Richard, raced after the human player catching him just before the end zone. In the ensuing scuffle, the catcher dodged the first orc block but Richard (trying to stay out of the way) got behind the human player, who fell on top of him squashing the hapless goblin flat. With the ball loose and the orc blitzer doubled over laughing, The Colonel was able to snatch the ball and claim the touchdown.
2-1 to the Amethyst Brothers and still everything to play for but the centre of the pitch was now a quagmire of churned up mess of mud, blood and orc spit. Having caught the ball, the orc catcher proceeded to trip over and the humans were quick to take advantage, again breaking open the orc's defensive line before grabbing the ball from the mud and sprinting clear for score number 3.
The orcs had a chance late on in the game but chose to pound on the human players who'd so clinically dispatched them all game instead.
Final score Blud Red Sunz 1 / 3 Amethyst Brothers ”