“An amazing match where the Underdogs truly showed how insanely plucky, belligerent and fluky they can really be and just how powerful their freakish mutations are.

The whole match was played in the pouring rain making the pitch and the ball slippery and dampening the spirits of the crowd. Even an Underdog’s blitz action at the start of the first half failed to raise much of a cheer with Gerald launching his speedy goblin team mate, Splat-sploosh, down field to position himself under the ball. Unfortunately he fumbled the catch and allows the humans to come away with the ball unchallenged. The humans knock Legendary skaven blitzer Ber’anx down and promptly group foul him into unconsciousness removing the U-dog’s main threat from the game for a while at least. But what the Chess Style team didn’t bank on was the power of the mass gobbo blitz – Barf lands a TTM next to the ball carrier, Splat-sploosh scampers up behind the over confident human who is then dropped by Rap-rap as he stunty dodges through the opposition lines. The humans find themselves in full reverse as they regroup around the ball placing it in 3 tacklezones but failing to pick up. Step up Barf, hero of the day, who dodges to the ball, picks up from 3 TZs in the rain on a straight 6 and sprints in for an amazing and unlikely TD against the kick.

Humans manage to catch the ball on restart and pack around the ballcarrier, but another TTM, some stunty magic and aggressive blitzing from the recovered Ber’anx place them in some difficulty. Ber’anx goes down but survives the fouling he receives – he springs back up and drives the ballcarrier towards the touchline only to be surfed into the lacklustre crowd himself by a sequence of blocks, which also see goblin runner Splat-sploosh removed in the same manner. Ber’anx is KO again but the humans have sacrificed an opportunity to advance the ball down field in their attempt to remove the Ber’anx threat. Gerald smashes an opening into the Human line and once more a mini-hoard of diminutive green skins pour through the gap to pull the ballcarrier down in another classic gob-mob blitz action. Suddenly the tide turns – Gerald is killed by the stinking human ogre, fortunately he regenerates but his absence on the field allows the humans to pull off their own unlikely sequence of actions to allow catcher Inigo to run in an equalizer in the final seconds of the half.

Second half and the U-dogs can only field 9 players after 8 consecutive failed recovery rolls. Things go from bad to worse when the Chess Style blitz followed by Gerald double skulling giving the humans 2 full unopposed turns. As a result Splat-sploosh and Gob-god both suffer crowd surfs but the U-dogs get a let off when the Ogre trips over goblin Belly-jelly while trying to block. Laz’pler picks up but with the U-dogs outnumbered almost 2-1 on the pitch there are few places he can go. The rough cage that formed around him is easily penetrated by the human blitzers and Laz’pler is driven to the ground. But the plucky rodent picks himself up, recovers the ball and successfully dodges out from the encircling humans, he holds off a blitz, but trips on his final dodge to take him clear on the human defence leaving him stunned and the loose ball surrounded by human players. Gerald charges into the fray pinning down 5 human players singlehandedly as the human catcher Inigo fails to pick up the muddy wet ball. The humans launch a barrage of block at Gerald who takes 6 block dice before he drops one of his attackers on a double skull roll. This heroic defence, holding half the opposition team down, gave Laz’pler enough time to recover his wits – he once more recovers the ball and dodges away but is supported only by a single U-dog goblin, if any of the players around Gerald get away Laz’pler will surely go down once more. In a final herculean act Gerald manages to hold all 5 opposition players around him as they hurl block after block at him, trying to put him down or push him away, only for them to once more double skull leaving Laz’pler free to scamper in a truly heroic and unlikely second touchdown.

Final score: 2-1 to the U-dogs! Appropriately enough the MVP goes to Barf for his first half score. But the deciding factor was undoubtedly the heavily mutated Laz’pler who is now just 1 TD away from gaining himself Legendary status along side Ber’anx.
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