“Real Sociedead 1 - 1 Essetesford Town

The season for Real gets no better as injury problems continue to mount. Prior to the game against Essertford the coach had the tough decision of finally letting Karla Larburu go. The longest serving Ghoul in OBBA history was not eager to be released after captaining his team through four season and 58 games, but in the end with Karla’s ever increasing list of injuries effecting his performance if not his spirit the coach decided his time at the club had come to an end.
[It is thought that Real will be submitting Karla Laburu to the OBBA HoF later this week]

Real started the game captainless but Fredrik Ollson was quick to step up and set a new precedent as the first captain of Real that wasn’t brought through the Real academy (signed from Sirius back in season 3). Ollson instantly showed his guile by smuggling in some knuckledusters.

Essetesford Town received and instantly feigned a very quick score. Real however were happy to allow them that early score and rather than mark the lone and difficult to take down catcher simply began to encourage Essetesford to make that play.

Reluctantly, Essetesford were soon forced to take the early score but Real were unable to do much damage which meant Essetesford came back for the kickoff with 11 women.

Despite just under a quarter to make the score Essetesford did just enough to prevent the TD after a handoff failed and left the ball carrier all too easily exposed for the agile Amazons.

Real were back in comfortable territory though as Essetesford only managed to field 10 women for the second half and had no reserves. Real began to repel the females quicker than coach Russo, sending many of them to the KO box. The superior numbers of Real turned their coach’s attentions from a score draw to a potential win but a clever move by Essetesford however chain pushed the ball carrier a little too far away to press the clock.

Nonetheless Real scored leaving them with a little time to push for the win… as long as the KO box remained full.

Coach Russo however must have sneaked into the KO box as every single girl recovered and ran onto the field. The win suddenly looked more like a loss. Thankfully, Real took the initiative and rearranged their defense as the girls became distracted by a fleece wearing man that was being escorted out of the dug out, clutching a club sandwich.

Essertford collected the ball and sat deep, electing to hold off for the draw. The combination of the sudden and untimely slaughter of Gustav Segerström II and seeing the ball carrier expertly defended by her team mates was enough for the Ghouls to decide to retreat rather than press an unlikely victory.

The game ended 1 – 1.

Poor cash, the loss of their only able bodied foul expert, a training injury incurred by Claudio Andres Bravo Munoz and the systematic decomposition of the Zombie back bone leaves Real in a sorrowful state. Speculation ahead of the game against OBFTW is that the Coach may use his sole healing potion on Claudio Andres Bravo Munoz.

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I thought I was beyond the point of caring for my pixels, but every now and then a ST6 Side Stepping Mummy with a penchant for maiming comes along and reminds me otherwise… he aged a niggle well before his time at 31spps. He’s ten CAS away from another aging roll so the dilemma is whether or not to use the potion now or wait until 51spps, though by then I’ll want to wait to 76 and by that time my other Mummy will age!
I could’ve lived with the death of Gustav Segerström II were it not for this. :(

My crippled team and woeful self pity aside, a good game and Cyrus played well. We both probably played rather conservatively… a bad season does that to you I guess. :)
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