“This was an incredibly up-and-down game, with the pendulum of luck swinging about as far as it could in either direction, and it really could have ended up being either team's win.

Let's see if I can remember it all...

My first offensive drive came to a crashing halt on turn 2 when the tree failed his take root, then double-skulled a block, then failed his loner. Then the thrower was stunned on the blitz, meaning it was left up to a catcher to recover the ball, dodge a couple of times and throw a long bomb downfield to the only player in a position to score - a lineman in a tackle zone who muffed the catch. Still, at least the ball was now nearer the lizardman endzone.

A lucky diving tackle prevented a nearby skink from picking up, and some lucky dice from me saw the rookie wardancer pick-up in a TZ, dodge and run in the score.

On their first offensive drive, the lizards came out strong and established a good position with the saurus, but then double fumbled the pick up on the other side of the field. This allowed me to scoop up the ball, and although it was a bit messy for a couple of turns, the saurus were so far away that I was able to hang on to it long enough to run in a second score.

With two turns remaining, the lizards mounted a desperate attack, getting two skins within scoring range for the final turn of the half. One of them was then injured off the field and the other was surrounded by defensive players. This didn't stop wizkid from giving it a go anyway, and a perfect pass (from a stunty, no less) was sadly dropped by the catcher, leaving the wood elves with a 2-0 lead at the half.

At the top of the second half, the lizards finally got the chance to get some proper offence going, with a nice solid saurus cage zipping upfield at a fair old pace. But that's what AG5, strip ball wardancers are for and sure enough I was a able to leap in and knock over the skink. Sadly though, the ball landed neatly between two of the saurus.

And then, on the following turn, the wardancer was killed, then healed back up to a MNG. Phew!

But he was my only tackler. And then the offence became even more toothless when both the tree and the ST4 linemen were KOd and at that point, needless to say, I could do nothing to stop the lizards scoring.

Both the KO's stayed out. The kick was short and way over on the wrong side of the field for my tiny group of surviving players and the blocking to try and make a hole on the defence was rubbish. I finished off a terrible turn by fumbling a backwards pass to get the ball to the thrower (and safety).

But as if that wasn't enough, on the following turn my top catcher was killed. And the lizards got the ball. But all was not lost. There was still a chance to get the ball back...and set myself up for a late score. I blitzed the ball carrier...pushback. I blocked the ball carrier...knocked over...great ball position. It was in a saurus TZ, but my AG5 thrower was in range and there was a wardancer downfield, all on his own.

So of course the thrower snaked the pick up.

At that point, wizkid knocked over my entire team (all five of them) and ran in the score, leaving me just the one turn to try and recover the win.

But the tree and the ST4 stayed out once again, and the lizard defence was as solid as a solid thing, so I did the only thing I could - threw an unnecessary long bomb.

So not a bad game, all in all, but that's two in a row now where everything has gone wrong for the passing game and I'm starting to miss my long bombs. Luckily however, my rating has just taken a nose dive, so maybe now I can find some unsuspecting rookie who will let me rack up 50+ yards against him.

Oh come on, it's only fair.”