“Finally the Anti-Social Club scored a win, and a bloody one it was.

When Enormous Crocodile was killed in the first turn, I was resigned. "Here we go again" I thought. And for the first couple of turns there didn't seem anything sensible to do apart from gingerly retreat.

Still, I put enough stuff in the way to slow the orcs advance, and so they had to settle for a 7th turn touchdown. We'd already done some fouling by then and broken a few of their players, but nothing to feel guilty about, just badly hurts here and there.

The sun came out and the sweltering heat made a few orcs faint, but while the ice creams were being passed around at half time the sun went back in again. But the second half...

We did a lot of damage. After a slow start to the game, the Professor got two casualties as we battered our way to a 1-1 draw, Charisma Bypass reliably carrying the ball across the field. I would have been quite happy with the draw, but a blitz let us run forward and get close to the ball. Even then it could have been very different - with the orcs squashing us up against the sideline, there was a little gap the goblins could exploit, In the most horrible roll of the dice, Arthur Anorthosite tried to move to block the escape route, but was tripped by the Professor and died. I guess that makes 3 casualties for the learned troll. If that wasn't enough, we smashed the hip of Grak Troctolite while Mr Twit sprinted to claim victory.

Great opponent, had to think a lot about this one. Helped that he had a reduced bench that my fouling goblins could exploit.”