“We face silver's lower rated orcs, giving up two handicaps (it wasn't me removing a block/guard black orc, +knuckledusters).

We kick off and their first DP foul sees our troll MNG'd (regen fail) - down to 10 players already! The DP has been sent off but they do have another one. Meanwhile we take advantage of a kick that put the ball right by one sideline to chase players towards it before their thrower can get there. They manage to dodge blitzers back to knock over our most threatening player and with a couple of GFIs grab the ball. But our +AGI blitzer isn't fazed at all, standing up and 1d blitzing their thrower for a MNG. We now have them really caught out of position and in trouble, grabbing the ball by their endzone on T4. We stall it out for an extra turn, badly hurting a black orc before scoring on T6.

A blitzer snoozes on in our KO box so it's 9 vs 10 and we roll up a blitz! We run three players in after the ball but fail to catch it. We then fail an early 2d block despite a reroll so we won't be able to capitalise on this. On their final turn they KO a black orc and gobbo - this could be key.

The black orc and blitzer wake up and the gobbo sleeps so we'll have 9 for the 2nd half vs 10 - phew. They get a perfect defence to mess up our T1 antics, but on T2 when we land two badly hurts on blitzers the balance of power swings our way. On T3 their troll KILLS a black orc but the apo intervenes. We counter by -AV injuring a blitzer and their apo is called out. A couple turns later things are starting to get a bit messy and we make it 2-0 with a lineorc.

We kick off but with only two turns left nothing really happens.

GG Silver!”