“Another day, another goblin game, more thoughts of throwing in the towel on this trophy run.

Once again the game starts of with a kickoff event that puts us on the backfoot for the entire game. This time, it's a Blitz!

But the darkelf blitzer near the ball doesn't catch it, we manage to clear the TZ's from it and pick it up (with a RR, my heart almost skipped a beat) and away we go! Or that's the theory, at least. Because the trolls go stupid and the Fanatic wanders of somewhere inconsequential and this damn assassin keeps shadowing Iwanmymommy! And failing to break his armour with stabs so I guess he's just in it for the company?

All of this causes our screen to be too loose for elven dodges, so a steal and a counterscore it is. Removals vs an apoless elven squad? not on this team's watch!

Second half sees the assassin breaking out his sharper knife to KO Hur Hur Hur the troll and the Amazing Andrew's amazing ability to do nothing at all except blow himself up.
Needless to say, the confident elves score quickly. Well placed confidence, it seemed, when the TTM score failed to launch. But we managed to cage it up and try again next turn, with more succes.

3 turns to steal vs a full elf squad seemed hopeless, but a path to the runner appeared with minimal dodges. The dump-off was subsequently fumbled, the ball recovered in a TZ and the counterballsack by the assassin saw him using his blunt knife again... but his shadowing antics forced 2 dodges and a hand-off and stunty pass.

All of which, miraculously, worked. I still don't believe it.

Some would say that the good dice at the end make up for the abysmal performance in the preceding turns, but I don't agree. I have got to find a way to either do better or deal with this kind of chaos better, because hoo boy. My reaction to things is souring what would otherwise be a highly enjoyable match, with a friendly opposing coach.”