“The omens were not good for Death Knell as the injury plagued Anave Highmask failed an early fitness test and could not take to the field. Also missing thrower Nyve Slingseer who was injured in the previous match, it meant the monks were starting with only 9 players.

Despite receiving the ball, things quickly got worse. With 3 two-skull blocks rolled in the first half, including one player being badly hurt when going down against the odds, several players to got stuck in a position where they were pushed into the crowd. Despite this, miraculously it took most of the half for the orcs to score, even though when the ball reached the endzone there were only 4 dark elves on the field.

Resigning himself to another Nuffling, Coach Chainsaw made a conveniently long trip to the toilet to read the paper and hopefully forget about how the remaing six left on the field did not have a hope in hell at preventing a slaughter. Much to his amazement, when he got back to sign the corpse release forms, they weren't just alive, they were winning.

Keyser Soze managed to evade the onrushing orcs and blitz the thrower. He went down clutching his good hand, and will be lucky to play much longer. Without their thrower, the rest of the team were just too stupid to pick up the ball. The elves, galvanised by the injury to the thrower, rallied and started to waltz around the greenskins, and ran in two good scores before being unlucky not to score a third right at the death. A game of two halves, literally.

(Luck counter is slightly skewed in my favour due to having to reload turn 5 of the first half. Probably would have been equal otherwise.)”