“This has been a very frustrating season with lots of small things going against them causing a real down turn in team confidence and causing low percentage, risky plays. This game was no different.

The elves received and stalled for a couple of turns to score mid first half playing into the Dorf plan of a boring 1-1 halftime, 2-1 stalled win. But this was not to be.

Some great positiional play from Redmai slowed and redirected the dorf offense just enough to force a semi risky pass play at the end of the half. A failed GFI at the RR, dropping the 4+ catch; leaving the ball on the ground for a turn 8 elf pickup and pass/run 3/4 of the field for a 2-0 half time lead. From there it was over.

Some stupid and cranky dorf play didnt help either - chasing cas (ineffectively) instead of securing a tight cage; and a couple of fouls (2 fouls, 2 send offs; one with the eye on opponent and one with no eye at all) left the dorfs underhanded against the slippery elves.

All in all things jjust didnt gel; the dorfs player poorly and not tight enough; and the elves were handled magnificently by Redmaul - its the subtlety of the positioning off the ball and out of TZ's that really makes the difference.

The dorf management are starting to packup the office. A redraft may be in order.... these guys are just too boring to play.

Pts
3pt: #12 Crashing Boar - AG 5 Block, Dodge, Leap, Strip Ball, Pass Block - what more can i say. He was everywhere; always made my ball carriers nervous; pulled off a pass block intercept pass for the 3rd TD.
2pt: #16 Killer King Kong (the tree!) - rooted first turn of first half, got a fairly fierce roasting from the coach and then upped his game to get 3 cas.
1pt: #1 Bastion Ape - plenty of blocks (more than any other elf) and a cas. Good solid effort; not a pansy like the rest of the team (tree excepted).”