“It was certainly a very close game. The Glory had incredible luck with Injury rolls, knocking out or injuring players regularly, but at other times blocked very poorly (eg 3 double skulls in 2 turns).

The Cheese Monkeys scored in the first half with a very lucky play when a long pass missed the Gutter Runner in the end zone, then scattered back onto him and he caught it! (The ball could have gone out of bounds, or landed anywhere but on him and he would have gone out of bounds with a Bull Centaur blitzing him next turn LOL).

The Glory pushed hard, and hit hard and brought the ball upfield, and were very unlucky (the 3 double skulls) to get themselves into a difficutl position late in the first half from which they failed a relatively easy attempt to score (just needed a 3+ hand off, if I hadn't rolled those double skulls, it would have been a score without any rolls required). The Glory were also not helped by the failure of several wild animal traps on the Monkey's Rat Ogre (3 pows from 4 one dice blocks, and one two dice I choose that both came up pows LOL).

In the second half, the Glory hit hard and pushed hard and after injuring and knocking out several players scored just before halfway into the period with the Monkeys having a maximum of 7 players to field, but only one woke up from the KO bin to leave them with just 5 players!

The Glory quickly overwhelmed the vastly outnumbered Monkeys and recovered the ball and surprising scored with enough time for the Monkeys to get an equaliser (I made a mistake, I was completely safe from blitzes etc and instead of ending turn, I walked into the End Zone LOL).

The Monkeys with only 5 players on the pitch penetrated deep with one Gutter Runner. The Glory managed to bring him down, then fouled him (KO) with a Bull Centaur (sent off) to stop the difficult (no rerolls, would require a dodge without reroll due to tackle, then a long bomb from a MA3 Linerat) but possible TD.
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It was a fun topsy turvy game. My opponent was a very good sport and he played his team well, keeping me on my toes. Whist I had some very bad luck in the first half that stopped me scoring, I also had some very good luck with the injuries on him in the second half and the KOs that allowed me thin his team to a max of 7.

My opponent was very unlucky to get 2 deaths from his 7 suffered CAS after using one to stop a niggle on a Lino with Block (I would have copt that one). One death was from a first half foul (I did a total of two fouls in the game, one was to stop my ball carrier being set up for a blitz, the second was to stop a score) and I was very sad to have killed one of my opponent's better players (GR with Very Long Legs and Leap).

Anyways, my opponent is a great sport and I wish him the best of luck recovering.”