“Real Sociedead 1 - 2 Sartosa Pirates BBC

Real Sociedead have so far outlasted any other team in the Premiership with a record six seasons at the top… division that is. So whilst everyone this season is quick to count them out and wager on a Championship season 7 as they travelled to Sartosa Pirates BBC (where they have a good winning record) spirits were high.

The combination of a virus and some after-hours drunken brawl found the Dwarves down to 12 men and Real’s optimism grew all the more despite the Dwarves receiving first.

They began things hard with Juanito being dispatched easily, but fortunately regenerating, and collected the ball, aiming to break down the flank. As the bulk of the Real team followed one of the few teams that can’t outrun them down the flank, Karla Larburu ran around the Dwarven defence looking to out flank their rookie ball carrier.

When the awesome Mummy defence got into touch with the dwarves things started to go Real’s way and Karla blitzed in, sacking the ball carrier, but an awkward bounce and a forgetful Wight (I forgot I hadn’t moved him : / ) left the ball a fairly easy prospect for a very agile blitzer who made the score.

The early dwarf score however did little to dampen Real’s mood, they still had a lot of time to equalise and the dwarves were now down to eleven men.

Using the Mummies as a rolling blockade Real pressed forward tying up dwarves to take Boukary Drame to the end zone to tie the game. The drive was costly however as long standing Ghoul, 58 games, and team captain Karla Larburu was viciously taken down, his neck snapping! Karla’s not one to quit but many fear this latest injury could be the final straw.


Second half and Real was in possession and feeling confident. They pounded the dwarves on the LOS, formed a good screen and then Boukary, keen to gain experience in the elf balling department, threw the worst pass in the history of bad passes… it sailed beyond the Ghoul that stood just inches from him, it sailed beyond the Mummies just beyond the Ghoul, it even sailed beyond the LOS and the Zombies that stood just beyond that and landed neatly at the feet of the Dwarves, Victory, wrapped in a pig skin parcel had just been delivered courtesy of air freight!

The high agility Dwarves wasted no time in collecting the ball and then mockingly passed it back deep to make a determined run. Yet again the Zombies and Mummies were left to try and rectify what has affectionately become known within the team as “Another Wight Cockup!”.
In no time at all three Dwarves were carried off the field badly and seriously hurt and Real had placed three men on the Dwarf ball carrier that had broke down the left flank… things seemed to have been recovered… or had it?

Yet again, in mocking fashion the Dwarf dodged from his markers, dodged between the Mummies and threw a pass to a waiting Runner who successfully caught the ball much to Real’s dismay! All Real could do was place a marker on the Runner, who merrily skipped away to make it 1 – 2!

Real still had time to equalise. Though it would mean that Boukary had to do something right with the ball. The Dwarves were down to eight men and couldn’t really mount any form of defence, so when Boukary collected the ball, after first of all spilling it, all that was required was a successful handoff to salvage a point, sadly this wasn’t to be and he ball plopped to the floor along with Real’s hopes for remaining in the Premiership!

The game ended a sorrowful 1 – 2.

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I don’t think I have ever seen such a poorly thrown pass during my time playing, I threw the game away with that pass, and it’s a mistake I won’t EVER make again… chasing 1 spp. Given the av/inj rolls I got in the second half I have no doubt that we would have won the game were it not for that.

Credit to Ebe though, he has those ag4 dwarves and he knows how to utilise them well, in fact whenever I lose to Sartosa it is because of those damn ag4 Dwarves!

I also screwed up with the first TD Ebe got when I forgot I hadn’t moved my Wight and by the time I remembered him a Zombie had cut his access to the ball off, leaving him requiring a couple of dodges that I decided against without RR.

1 point in 3 games will certainly see me relegated as I now play the races that will run circles around us, and my only competent Tackler is missing and in need of retirement. Though I might keep him until his 60th game, poor Karla. :(

GG Ebe – kill some mummies!
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