Average Joes Vs. Lakhti Longships
Quarter final time, and once again Average Joes have fallen foul of
the knockout stages. With ‘Joes starting
the game by kicking to Lakhti Longships the first half was characterised by two
touchdowns and two injuries. Firstly a
linerat was able to breach the Norse defence and knock the ball from their
player into the skaven section of the crowd, who promptly threw it over the
head of The Rat for it to run onto and open the scoring. Then storm vermin and ‘Joes team captain La
Fleur was injured by a furry thing with legs and claws, before Benedict; the
skaven rat ogre, took revenge on the furry thing to leave the injury box score
at 1-1. There was time for the Norse to
wriggle free and score an equalising touchdown, and this triggered an unhelpful
riot in the stands which ended the half to the disadvantage of the skaven. Overall, however, the first half, in front of
10,000 ratty fans and 9,000 bearded norse men and women, had gone mostly to
plan.
The second half was unremarkable for the first third, with ‘Joes
thrower Murdock holding onto the ball in the hope of finding enough space for a
pass to set a gutter runner away.
However, the pass never came, as Murdock tripped while dodging a tackle,
releasing the ball which fortuitously bounced into the arms of the Norse’s top
scorer. At that moment the whole game
turned as ‘Joes lost two more players to serious injuries (both gutter runners,
including The Rat, leaving none on the pitch), and 3 to the knockout box
including Benedict who fell foul of a lucky hit from the snow beast. With just six players on the pitch, and not
many skills between them, the remaining skaven worked hard to try and force the
ball either out, or at worst case over their own line so they could try and
keep in the game. However, it wasn’t too
be, luck had truly deserted them, and the opposition played a cunning game of
holding the ball up until the last moment before making it 2-1 with seconds
remaining. Average Joes were out.
In the post match interview Lord Flasheart admitted he might
have approached the game with too much confidence, and felt he had made a
number of poor tactic decisions. The Norse
now go on to play Paddy’s Norse in the semi-finals, while Average Joes go back
into semi-retirement once more.
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