“My team had a significantly higher-skilled saurus core, which I was expecting to carry me. particularly as I'd got so much dodge and he didn't have much tackle

I'd bloated my team up from its normal 1700ish range to 2050 with 3 spare skinks, a 4th re-roll, and had been careful to spread SPP around to skill up skinks, where normally they'd get fired early.
However this kind of bit me in the ass as the extra skinks were not used at all and the inducements I gave away were too useful. I was expecting Slibli + wizard, instead it was the slann guy + wizard

First half, I receive, concentrate on bashing too much instead of screening, get ball blitzed by the slann star player and generally my play is scrappy, too spread out chasing block dice and letting the star player be good value with diving tackle on my skinks

half ends with a loner skink holding the ball within score range but needing a dodge and a GFI to score which he fortunately fails, and we go into second half 0-0

Second half, i'm kicking, i look like i might contain the drive on the LOS so i get 3-4 guys hit by fireball and the ball runs down my left flank. I pressure him into a score, and get kicked to in around turn 6

I get the ball, still fail to screen properly and advance only slowly
then I make a retarded mistake and fail to realise when its turn 7 and fail to leave anyone within scoring range for the next turn. therefore I lose the game, and sulk about it for several days afterward.

I'm sure if i'd have been more focused and realised it was turn 7, i would have set up a better screen in a more forward position, instead of spending time bashing in anticipation of the overtime

GL in the rest of the XFL”