“The Guardians started in possession but were promptly blitzed by Team Trash who recovered the ball. The Guardians quickly recovered the ball and ran backwards in defence and then did an endzone to endzone play to draw first blood.

Team Trash on their offensive drive then failed a backfield pass (after burning a reroll picking up the ball) and the Guardian Wardancers and Catchers were quickly swarming their backfield, winning the ball and scoring another quick TD. (2-0 after 4 turns).

Team Trash finally made it onto the scoreboard after resisting some tight defence by the Guardians (he had to GFI twice to avoid a Catcher who could intercept, and then throw a long pass).

However, the Guardian fans were disgusted with the injury of Lothlann Eaglewing and the team management's decision not to use their allotment of magical sponges on him and took their anger out on Team Trash! 4 Players were left stunned and 2 were knocked out allowing Wardancer Kelthanus Thundercall to run in an easy TD to take a 3-1 lead at half time.

In the second period, Team Trash started in offence and it took them almost the entire half to score thanks to the intense defence, in fact, they almost lost the ball (I failed a GFI to get a two dice blitz on his defenceless ball carrier!).

The Guardians only had 7 players left on their next drive but with some classic forwards and backwards play to spread out the field, forced a gap in the middle to take the scoreline to 4-2 and secure the win. Not even bothering to foul though their fans had stormed the pitch and killed the Ref for getting some mud on Wardancer Caladriel Stormbringer's crisp yellow uniform.

On the final drive, the Guardians played way back rather than press and try to win the ball and score one more time (ok, I forgot to put guys closer to the LOS), but still managed to steal and retain the ball at the end of the match.
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Man that was a hard game even though I was leading comfortably. The luck meter means nothing, he powed me all day, and KOd me frequently! For many turns I was down 2-3 players despite having more Blodgers LOL. Still, it was a fun game against a fun opponent.

Am regretting not using apoth on my Str 4 Block Guard lino, boy will I miss him next match! New Thrower was a chump, getting targetted all match as the only guy without Block or Dodge and only got 1 pass!

4 Advance rolls, 2 at 16, 2 at 32, unfortunately, one of the 16s also came with a niggling injury. Only got 11 next match, should I dip into my 300K slush fund? LOL”