MD8 Turf Torpedoes (Pidpad, Underworld) v Fuel My Fire (me, chaos)
I sacked Voodoo People before the game - that serious concussion means he's too unreliable now for a guard piece and too hard to find a place for on the pitch. That gave Pidpad 380k-ish of inducements that he spent on Bomber, a wizard, two babes and a rookie goblin.
Pidpad won the toss and (mindgaming) I told him that I would prefer to receive. This was a cunning lie as I wanted to kick! Pidpad saw through my lies and punted me the ball - clearly I have some way to go before I become Jose Mourinho.
I did no damage again on the LOS, rookie goblins proving resistant to three dice blocks from ST5 chaos warriors, but decided to bait out the wizard early as he had no players in my half of the field to nick the ball and score with. I therefore caged up tight on the half way line, and the wizard came down, doing no damage but knocking down three players including the ball carrier. One of his obnoxious goblins darted round the left side to pick it up, followed by pretty much his whole team, but the ball could not be caged properly. Bomber then threw a grenade at my right side, including my DT guy and my prehensile tail guy, but it was caught and thrown back, stunning a goblin.
I popped the ball loose, and recovered it with my tackle beast, and Pidpad could not prevent me forming a cage on turn 3 as I managed to surf a couple of players with my frenzy beast. Although Pidpad was starting to run out of players, Bomber now proved his worth, launching a literal long bomb into the cage and knocking over three players. That was the last decent play of the half however as both teams turned on the slapstick - Pidpad failed a 4+ pickup, then I failed a 3+ pickup with a reroll. Pidpad's goblins snaffled the ball and ran towards centre field, before being hauled down again and Jilted charged over to pick up the ball, but rolled snake eyes on a GFI.
With just one turn left I could still score, but it required a dodge, pickup and pass from my AG4 chaos warrior, with no rerolls. I failed the pickup, and then Pidpad tried The Most Unlikely Play Ever (involving a pass to a rookie goblin marked by a DT player, a tackle player and my tailed beast, but the pass failed so we never got to see the dodge.
0-0 at half time
In the second half Pidpad began by making some friendly LOS blocks but nothing special, before farming an SPP on his rookie thrower. He dropped the hand-off-back, however. I moved in to threaten the left side of his line, and aggressively pushed into contact on the right, only to see the troll immediately both down itself as first action on turn 10! Here was a chance to win and I clobbered one of his uber goblins and pushed an ST5 chaos warrior and a tackle beast next to the ball (which was still on the deck from the hand off), smashed down a few players, and aggressively marked everyone else.
We then saw a "Pidpad special", as he dodged a blitzer away from his marker to blitz down the tackle dude, picked up the ball with uber-goblin and handed off to another uber-goblin, who passed (passed!) the ball to his other blitzer, who just fucked off down the pitch. All without a reroll. He then made two unskilled AG3 dodges with rats to mark up the only two players who could intervene (DT guy and tail guy). It would all be ok, however, if I could dodge my DT guy away, which of course I couldn't. Failed the dodge (with a reroll), 1-0 to the underworld.
I was seriously on tilt now, and basically ignored the ball and tried to kill things, which I failed at. I beat the crap out of his team for four turns (the full works, including rerolling KO results when piling on, but), only got BH results and stuns, apart from a goblin who killed himself on a dodge. I found I still had the ball at the end of the match and ran it in for a T16 equaliser.