The Orcamites got their revenge but the Hooligans made them fight for every inch in a 2-1 overtime defeat.
The Hooligans received and good off to a good start, fouling, and spinning, and hail mary bombing. The lads made good progress but the coach (me) made a big mistake in the middle of the first half. Our Looney went for a foul and saw-ed himself, which we rerolled, then rolled doubles, which we bribed, which was stolen by the ref so we bribed again, which worked.
But I quickly realized I had gotten frustrated and spent both my bribes too quickly, meaning all three weapons would leave after this drive and I still wanted to foul!
We sprang Pogoer Steady Eddy to run clear for a next-turn TD, but failed goblin dodges (stupid Orc Tackle!) left him open to the blitz, which promptly injured him. We had to use our wizard and were able to regroup, even burn a turn, then scored.
The Orcs had two turns but couldn't equalize before the half. His KOs were not good so we actually out-manned him 10-8 in the second half and we had two trolls plus Ripper! He tried to push through, a scrum ensued, and he ran his Blodging Blitzer ballcarrier into the open trying to make a break for it. Over two turns, we threw 8 dice at him and #8 was a POW but we couldn't recover. We went all out, knowing we only had to grab the ball and run away with it or punt it to seal the win, but the Orcs were two strong. One troll got KOed and the other was neutralized by the Orc troll. Ripper was tied up with a Stand Firm BoB. We made one last effort to at least down a Blitzer for the foul and BH a goblin by failing a dodge!
The Orcs scored on turn 8 and our 1-turn TD failed on the pick-up. That is the worst - it never even really got started!
For OT, Orcs rolled a 10 for kick/receive...and so did we.
Then the Orcs rolled an 8 for kick/receive...and so did we.
Then the Orcs rolled a 6 for kick/receive...and so did we.
Then the Orcs rolled a 7 for kick/receive...and so did we.
Then the Orcs rolled a 2 for kick/receive...and we chose to receive!
This seemed to indicate Nuffle would smile on us again as we then earned a reroll back on the KO result, despite not having fame.
Pick-up was good, hand off was good, Really Stupid was good, Always Hungry was good...then the troll fumbles the throw.
We were pretty well clumped up so we saved the reroll and let the goblin fall. He was okay but the Orcs rushed in. We had one more turn to try and clear some space for a desperation run...and both trolls went stupid.
That was it, Orcs began to smash everyone. Ripper was BH, Bigger Ed was BH and Big Ed was KOed. The Orcs spent the last two turns waiting on the goal line and fouling out the last goblins, once with their troll! I had to respect that and the Orcs scored the match winner after pitch clearing our Hooligans!
So we fall to 4-3 on the season but we secured that all-important single standings point for losing in OT and we still lead the division! Up next, we have an Underworld team that has to play bashy Human AND bashy Chaos before playing us, then we close with back-to-back division rematches with the Chaos Dwarves and Dwarves. Thanks to everyone rooting for our lads as we try to reach 7 wins in this improbable season!