“We're scheduled vs PeteW for the third time in my blackbox history (out of 17 games, never played any other coach even twice yet!)

They start with a blitz, breaking a hole and pushing some skinks through, and while we move a goblin back to mark the ball, a simple dodge after that fails leaving us exposed! The lizards get some blocks in and then dodge a skink onto the ball in front of our hapless goblin and then on to score in their first official turn!!

A touchback gives the ball to a troll, temporarily, and then a big cloud of punching around the middle happens, with a saurus catching a knocked down ball twice despite tackle zones, and eventually its enough for them to break him free and run downfield and score their 2nd on turn 6.

We mill around for a couple of turns, achieving little, and they almost contrive a double tackle zone pass (rolling the 6) + a series of pushes that could have seen them score a third but don't quite put it together.

When we blitz a troll over to one side in the 2nd half they engineer a blitz for a push and then get 5 players around him so they can skink-block him into the crowd! However this means they have ignored the ball and a blockless saurus burns their reroll and still only gets both-down.. meaning we can grab the ball and run upfield with a couple spare goblins guarding the way. No RRs sees them give us an immediate turnover letting us score to make it 2-1 and get our 2nd troll back on the field!

They push through the middle in numbers and despite us crowding all around their cage and getting 3 players next to their ball carrier they bash a little space and then run through dodging three times with ease to run in the 3-1 TD!

We mill around once again, attempting to free up a troll to try for a thrown TD but again we just can't get it together and the game ends with the goblin's first loss!

GG as usual PeteW”