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The Golden Neep RPG (thegoldenneep) wrote in neeps,
@ 2018-02-20 07:18:00

Entry tags:

! ic/ooc, ! match, # portree, alasdair buchanan, alec urquhart, ama macfarlane, bart roberts, chidera okeke, elspeth macfusty, georgi draganov, hamish roberts, kenna mcleod, madeline savage, maggie macdougal, meaghan mccormack, owen macfarlane, peggy urquhart, sara scrimgeour

IC/OCC Holyhead Harpies (3-6-0) versus The Pride of Portree (6-1-1)
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Holyhead Harpies (3-6-0 0.333) versus The Pride of Portree (6-1-1 0.750)
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Play Started:2000-02-20 at Ellis Moor
Snitch caught in : 5 hours, 30 minutes
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Holyhead Harpies : 20
The Pride of Portree : 590
Congratulations, The Pride of Portree
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Team Notes: Holyhead Harpies
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Harpies Reserve Chaser Ginger Grint substituting for Chaser Gerty Gables
Harpies Keeper Garwin Price warned for Repelling.
Harpies Keeper Garwin Price warned for Cloving.
Harpies Chaser Ginny Weasley warned for Ghouling.
Harpies Chaser Ginger Grint warned for Interference.
Harpies Chaser G. Valmai Morgan warned for Interference.
Harpies Beater Ellabee Griffiths warned for Crowd-Bludger.
Harpies Beater Gwenog Jones warned for Crowd-Bludger.
Harpies Keeper Garwin Price warned for Yipping.
Chaser Ginny Weasley took 46 shots, scoring 0 points, with a shot percentage of 0%
Chaser G. Valmai Morgan took 33 shots, scoring 20 points, with a shot percentage of 6%
Chaser Ginger Grint took 34 shots, scoring 0 points, with a shot percentage of 0%
Harpies Keeper Garwin Price blocked 132 shots, allowing 440 points, with a defending percentage of 75%.
Chaser Ginny Weasley was lightly injured during play.

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Team Notes: The Pride of Portree
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Pride Reserve Seeker Madeline Savage substituting for Seeker Pip Parkinson
Pride Reserve Chaser David Urquhart substituting for Chaser Joy Willison
Chaser Alasdair Buchanan took 60 shots, scoring 160 points, with a shot percentage of 26%
Chaser Sara Scrimgeour took 82 shots, scoring 210 points, with a shot percentage of 25%
Chaser David Urquhart took 34 shots, scoring 70 points, with a shot percentage of 20%
Pride Keeper Meaghan McCormack blocked 111 shots, allowing 20 points, with a defending percentage of 98%.
Chaser David Urquhart was lightly injured during play.
Seeker Madeline Savage caught the snitch to clinch the victory.

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	On the Pitch thegoldenneep 2018-02-20 01:23 pm UTC (link)
	During the game, what happened? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	On the Pitch oh_ke_ke 2018-02-20 03:25 pm UTC (link)
	When it was apparent that the Holyhead chasers were WAY off today, Chidera spent her time goading and trash-talking the shit out of Gwenog Jones and Ellabee Griffiths. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Pre Match Anything ecoutezmoi 2018-02-20 08:49 pm UTC (link)
	Alasdair definitely grins as he goes past and hears some of Chidera's choicer phrases. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: On the Pitch mrs_dragon 2018-02-20 11:39 pm UTC (link)
	Lorna provides her own Beater interference of Jones and Griffiths because their Chasers are nothing to worry about, so just protect Portrees! Also is there for Chidera back out, and letting her do her thing. (Reply to this) (Parent)

Re: On the Pitch

more_savage
2018-02-20 08:43 pm UTC (link)

Maddie is focused, and if the opposing Beaters give her any thought, she doesn't notice it. She thinks they may have forgotten about her, which is all the better for her. She even tries a couple of times to draw attention away from their Chasers to help get the score up, but it becomes blatantly obvious a couple of hours in that Meaghan is ON FIRE and there's no chance the Harpies are catching them, Snitch or not.

It's at that point, about midway through, that Maddie is able to relax a little and actually enjoy herself. She likes being up in the air and flying and playing far more than she likes the need to win. That revelation is surprising to her, because winning used to be all that mattered—but that was back when she started all the time.

She catches sight of the Snitch about 5 hours and 15 min in, but she takes her time getting to it to prevent the Harpies from trying to block her. It's almost too easy how she makes a leisurely circuit of the pitch to grab it. If not for the refs, she thinks the Harpies might have kept playing. What is going on with them today?

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	Re: On the Pitch ecoutezmoi 2018-02-20 08:51 pm UTC (link)
	At one point, Alasdair flies slowly past Maddie and asks her if she's fallen asleep on her broom yet, because Jesus, as well as the Harpies really sucking today, this snitch is taking its own sweet time. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: On the Pitch more_savage 2018-02-20 09:08 pm UTC (link)
	"Maybe we should add this to endurance week—how to not fall asleep when the other team already has." She rolls her eyes. "I'll get us out of here as soon as I can, but my little friend is shy today." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: On the Pitch ecoutezmoi 2018-02-20 09:13 pm UTC (link)
	Alasdair chuckles, spinning the Quaffle in his hands as he waits for a Harpy to come get him. "I'll suggest it in our next meeting," he grins, plummeting ten feet and sending a very confused Harpy reserve flying straight above him, wondering where he went. (Reply to this) (Parent)

Re: On the Pitch

ecoutezmoi
2018-02-20 09:00 pm UTC (link)

One Chaser above a double century, one not far off and a rookie reserve making not far off a century. The Pride Chasers were on fire today, regardless of the poor Chasing from their erstwhile opponents.

Alasdair takes his usual role of calling the Chaser plays where needed, supporting the backup Chaser and feeding through to someone else. Formerly, the latter would have been Joy and the other Scrimmy, but today the younger woman's position is reversed. Alasdair knows his shit, has studied the Harpies defence inside and out and exploits the advantage given to him by Scrimmy's determination today.

He circles around the pitch from time to time, encouraging the other Chasers to play keep-away a little bit - because why the hell not? He even checks in with some of the other players from time to time.

He eventually lands and descends from his broom in languid, elegant fashion. It's all very French.

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Re: On the Pitch

mrs_dragon
2018-02-21 12:11 am UTC (link)

Lorna doesn't even understand this match. What is up with Jones and why isn't she Captaining this team? Either way, Lorna is strongly supportive of the chasers today, though they are doing very good job on their own. Lorna would have gone a few fly bys to celebrate a number of those goals.

She's keep coming back to block bludgers from Meaghan (who is a BEAST today!). Especially after noticing that the Holyhead beaters are just not on par today, Lorna lets Keke take a beater lead and Lorna provide back up for her. Might as well right?

Lorna is always disappointed when beaters do Crowder Bludgers, and there were two today! Of course she's not aware of her husband getting hit or her daughter almost getting hit.... There will be rage later.

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Re: On the Pitch

wannabeat
2018-02-21 01:36 am UTC (link)

The Scrimmy that comes blazing through the pitch today is a new hybrid of her past match styles. Unlike her personal best in the Wasps match, this crazy determined offense style isn't fueled by tiny dragon rage. It's just plain angry determination.

She's so into it (and the Harpies suck so much) that she forgets to be nervous and overwhelmed by playing against Gwenog Jones (who Meaghan made her embarrass herself in front of at a Bad Decisions party!).

Through it all it's pretty clear who she's trying to channel. Scrimmy can't quite match the aussie style but she tries to mix it with her own small size and strongarm technique. She zips in between Harpies chasers, using her small size to crouch down and find holes in their formations, and finds new angles to take shots from. And boy does she take her shots. When she said she was going to score twice as much to make up for Joy's absence, she meant it. She shoots more than two Harpies chasers combined. As bad as the Harpies chasers are today, it feels good to have their team utterly dominate possession.

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Re: On the Pitch

mmmcc
2018-02-21 07:02 am UTC (link)

Here's the thing: yeah there's a lot resting on this match, but Meaghan also hates playing the Welsh teams, because Big Welsh Quid Fans like to sing Myfanwy at her. (It's her middle name, she hates it, she also hates the implication that she might be part Welsh.) It's worse with Caerphilly, but it comes up with the Harpies too. She's expecting distraction. She's expecting Gwenog to come for her.

But Gwenog can't seem to touch her, no one can apparently, and the Harpies are so not at Portree's level today that despite occasional bursts of song from the crowd, their fans are apparently too demoralized to try and make it happen.

Meaghan starts grinning as she blocks, then laughing, then outright roaring. She's in a grand fierce mood, to the point of trying to lure the chasers closer to relive her favorite moment against the Bats. But despite getting mad enough to turn foul-happy, none of them are dumb enough to fall for it, which is probably for the best.

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