“Our adepts face Krusher's skinks. That's a grand total of 4 illegal poisoned daggers at the match today!

And all 4 are brought onto the pitch immediately. Their first uses produce 4 KOs: one of our stalkes for their block-raptor, their knifer and a skink. We use this numbers advantage to try and knife as many of them as possible with the ball (fairly) safe in our blodge assassin's hands. But a nice turn from the skinks sees a 2d block on him knock him over and a waiting whiptail can grab the ball and run downfield! One of our night runners can just about reach him with a blitz.. but the dagger stab can't break his armour! He legs it downfield and scores on turn 6. We see one of our daggers sent off but their KO box has only 1/6 wakeups so there's just 7 to defend against us for the last few turns in the half.

But we do extremely poorly, never securing the ball until they are all over us in our half. We're able to stop them scoring again, but only just about, and only manage another 2 KOs (versus one for them) before the half is over. A 2nd dagger of ours is sent off and neither of our KO's wake up- though they still have 5 in their KO box. 8 adepts face 7 skinks.

They quickly turn it around by badly hurting an adept with their dagger, then another with a block, then two more KOs (including our dagger which failed to break armour), leaving us just 4 on the pitch. We try our best to sack their whiptail (managing it at one point) but we're so outnumbered it doesn't matter and they score to make it 2-0 on turn 5. Their dagger is then sent off but practically everyone in both KO boxes is woken up by their respective coaches for the last turns.

But once again we are a shambles at the back, failing to pick up the ball and then getting swarmed over by the speedy skinks. They quickly take us down and make it 3-0!

A seriously one-sided thrashing! Well won Krusher :D”