“MattDakka pulled the same "run-back-and-hide-in-the-end-zone" that saw his rats thrash the Geordie Green Giants not so long ago, and the lads were getting wise to AG and MV shenanigans, so they trudged slowly down the pitch, sending three lineorcs to make trouble.

... which of course meant the elves ran down the flank and then all we could do was beat a few of them up before they scored. We set out our intent early on, fouling as hard as we could to discourage stalling, but with an iron will MattDakka held on to turn 8, reducing our ability to batter people after that.

Still, the ref was asleep while we gangfouled a journeyman into the injury box, and we should claim a kill on Finruel, if it hadn't been for some apothecary rediagnosing him as having a broken jaw.

Second half, we trudged slowly forward and tried to take advantage of numerical superiority, but one unwise blitz and quadruple skulls later, the cage was hanging wide open and what should have been a grind to 1-1 or probably 2-1 on a quick run by the elves, turned into 1-0, the ball being hurled down field by a leaping wood elf while we raged impotently. At least after this travesty of bungling by the Giants Johnny has been throwing the ball around enough to skill up again. 8 games left in the trophy for the Giants...”