#AUSvDC
28-19 The Cuisine Solutions Cup is Ours. Rugby’s Greatest Prize.
It’s breathless in Texas! For the second week in a row the OGs had their cowboy boots on. After putting Houston to the sword a week earlier, they took on the Austin Gilgronis for a totally made up trophy. But never mind that. A Prize is a prize. For THE MONUMENT MAN that’s a call to fire up the hype engine. All aboard!
🚨 Ohh Geez. Ohh Geez. Ohh Geez. 🚨
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
The Good and the Pure are back in Texas. But this time we’re playing for RUGBY’S 👏🏼 GREATEST 👏🏼 PRIZE 👏🏼. That’s right, your mighty OGs battle the @Gilgronis at 4pm for the Cuisine Solutions Cup 🏆 #AUSvDC pic.twitter.com/gWkRHT7F1U
🎙Oi… Hand it over🎙
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
Ok Glory Supporters. It’s THE MONUMENT MAN broadcasting live and loose from @ExilesBarDC for another Old Glory-ous game of rampaging rugby from captain Mungo and the boys.
Bring on The Mixologists 🍸🤠 @Gilgronis #AUSvDC pic.twitter.com/bcLKv3J4Kh
📣 ATTENTION ALL BEER DRINKERS, SPORTS FANS, AND GLORY SUPPORTERS: TODAY IS A RUGBY DAY. COME PLAY.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
🏉 @Gilgronis v OG
⏰ 4 pm
⬇️ For the American audience
📺 NBC Sports Washington
⬇️ For the International contingent
💻 @usmlr fbook live
⬇️ For the hardcore fans
🥳 @ExilesBarDC
RUGBY’S GREATEST PRIZE
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
🏆 Cuisine Solutions Cup 🥳
OTHER PRIZES OF NOTE
🏆 World Cup
🏆 6N Grand Slam
🏆 Rugby Championship Trophy
🏆 The Bledisloe
🏆 Calcutta Cup
🏆 Currie Cup
🏆 Giuseppe Garibaldi Trophy
🏆 @AlexandriaRugby U15 MVP#AUSvDC pic.twitter.com/dmMI9hgxdW
🏟OGs HAVE THEIR COWBOY BOOTS ON🏟
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
Check out your #GreatestGlory!
🚂 Api Naikatini in the engine room
🚀 Mungo Mason strapped to the chariot
🐎 Ciaran Hearn champing at the bit
🎼 Jason Robertson conducts the symphony#AUSvDC pic.twitter.com/BlQpCP1svl
But none as entertaining as The Monument Man Twitter commentary... Top effort, c’mon the OG’s 👍
— Stuart Patterson (@lairdpatterson) February 29, 2020
Bingo!
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
Every year, the OGs will battle the @Gilgronis, AKA The Mixologists🍸🤠, for Rugby's Greatest Prize. The Cuisine Solutions Cup 🏆
It's gonna be a thriller!
THE MONUMENT MAN’S Top Secret Intel on the bad guys!
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
🍸🤠 Team: @Gilgronis
🍸🤠 Alias: The Mixologists
🍸🤠 Style: Straight up, with a twist
🍸🤠 Top Bartender: Frank ‘The Tank’ Halai
🍸🤠 Secret Ingredient: A splash of orange
🍸🤠 Probable fanboys: @RugbyPodcast #AUSvDC pic.twitter.com/RpbzHHCV8z
Ingredients The Mixologists 🍸🤠 Don’t have:
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
1: Leagues in-form flyhalf @Jase_Robbo17 🎼
2: The actual Mungo Mason 🏴🚀
3: Best sandwich in rugby 🍔 @SousVideCuisine#AUSvDC@Gilgronis pic.twitter.com/CVJxJaXE23
Here’s what’s in a @Gilgroni 🍸🤠:
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
2 oz. Rip-snorting front row
1.5 oz. Ball handling guile
.5 oz. Burnt orange jersey
Garnish with a real, hand to god, ALL BLACK at 13 🇳🇿😱#AUSvDC@Gilgronis pic.twitter.com/AbUbQSI5Aa
The battle with @Gilgronis draws near
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
RUGBY’S 👏🏼 GREATEST 👏🏼 PRIZE 👏🏼
🏆The Cuisine Solutions Cup🏆
🇺🇸 Anthems are go!
💥 Tackles are imminent!
🏉 #Gloryawaits!#AUSvDC pic.twitter.com/gcWbfR7MDo
🚨Unleash the Mungo🚨
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
1’ The Mixologists 🍸🤠 bang it long. A furious Naqali cuts a menacing figure. The winner gets the Cuisine Solutions Cup 🏆
HERE. WE. GO. 🏉👊💥
1' Taikato-Simpson give it some serious wellie!
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
Too much wellie in fact. He's wacked it out the end of the stadium. Scrum to The Mixologists 🍸🤠
We'll call it halfway
3' The Mixologists 🍸🤠 called for cheating.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
Adding too much nonsense to the ruck. Robertson calls sticks. Let's fly. And nails it!
🎯
0-3
'5 Knock on by the OGs at the kickoff.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
Bad guys with a chance to launch an attack of menace and guile. BUT THE OGs TURN IT OVER. GET SOME!
7' OGs even win a penalty. And we poke it down into the This-could-spell-trouble-for-the-bad-guys side of the field.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
We're playing like a bunch of furious geniuses right now. It's a great start for your OGs!!#AUSvDC
8' TRY TIME OGs!!
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
It's the boys at their swashbuckling best 🤺
Robertson with the cut out pass. Hearn with the cultured right foot poke though. O'Donnell with the pick up and pass. Danny Boy with the delicate dot Down.
🎯 Kicks good. Beucase we're good @AUSvDC
0-10
11' @Gilgronis burst into life. The man with a mane of sumptuous locks makes a break, and then the bad guys sweep it wide.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
BUT IT'S O'DONNELL WITH THE COVER TACKLE!! Magnificent defense by the Kiwi winger!
0-10
13' Scrum time Good Guys.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
Palamo 🦁 clatters into the midfield. Bangs the OGs up the 22. Then, ARRGH we get turned over. Skullgugary on the floor I'm sure of it. But we'll have a lineout
0-10
15' OGs fling it wide off the top.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
We're playing like men of passion and verve. Roberston conducting the symphony. We're playing all the right notes.
The poke through ends up winning us a 5m scrum! Let's go.
Booooo Penguins Hooorayyyy OGDC
— DC Quins (@dc_quins) February 29, 2020
20' The bad guys running it from deep.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
They like to play it wide like we do. This one's playing like two gunslingers squaring off in an old western. AND I LOVE IT! #AUSvDC
0-10 pic.twitter.com/8BbsXNfxGq
22' OGs get their rumble on.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
We're mauling like we've been in the gym all week. Biceps and quads abulging. Then we play it tight and right off Danny boy. AND WIN A PENALTY!!
🎯 Robertson nails another! #AUSvDC
0-13
24' TRY TIME OGs!
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
AND THAT ONE WAS AN ALL-TIME GREAT! Danny Boy's long ball is tipped-on by Fa’anana-Schultz. Palamo put Farser in the corner. We're going end-to-end. Playing with reckless abandon. #AUSvDC
🎯Robertson nails the touchline conversion!!
0-20
28' It's breathless in Texas. Now the Bad Guys are on the front foot.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
Big boys thump it up 👊
Fast boys whip it wide 🐎
Little guys snipe at every chance 🤺
This is madness! pic.twitter.com/Ir9FqNBfrK
Blasphemy. Thretton’s hair is like a combination of Fergie and Jesus.
— Kaitlyn Kelly (@ShowtimeKKelly) March 1, 2020
and it was HELD UP!
— Colleen McCloskey (@cmccloskey56) February 29, 2020
Exhausting & exhilarating D from OG!
— Joanna Marie (@jm_corwin) February 29, 2020
38' Vakalahi comes a cropper by the ref for repeated cheating by the Good Guys too close to the line.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
Ref: 📢 That's quite enough of that
Vakalahi: 🤷♂️meh
Ref: 🟨 Go and sit on the naughty step
Vakalahi: 🤷♂️ok.
40' TRY TIME BAD GUYS
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
They called a scrum when we were a man down. They pushed us over. It's all very tedious. It's all very obvious.
7-20
40' JUSTICE! We win a penalty off the restart. Robertson calls sticks from 48m out. And wallops it through. #AUSvDC
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
7-23
40 more minutes let’s bring the Cuisine Solutions Cup home to where it belongs
— DC Quins (@dc_quins) February 29, 2020
40’ OGs hoist it high to start the 2nd half. We're 40mins from lifting The Cuisine Solutions Cup 🏆.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
RUGBY’S 👏🏼 GREATEST 👏🏼 PRIZE 👏🏼
41' Wahoo! Technical scrum stuff. And it's technically a penalty to The Mixologists 🤠🍸
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
43' Jouez Jouez by the OGs
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
Roberston, with utter disregard for my hairline, runs from deep. The forwards, who equally don't care, start offloading like a bunch of lunatics. BUT IT'S WORKING! We're up the 15m line. ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FIELD #AusvDC
7-23
44' Vakalahi sneaks back onto the field after his time on the reinforced naughty boy's chair.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
Tries not to make eye contact with the ref.
Ain't nobody missing you, big fella 👀
Welcome back!! 🥳🎉
7-23
48' We've started doing that 🦀 crabby-high-stepping-thing that backs do when they're feeling themselves.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
It doesn't work. For the love of all that's good in the world, get your shoulders low and charge up field like you mean it!
52' Oh fiddlesticks.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
The bad guys have sneakily made their way up to our try line. They have a lineout. It's a platform to spring forth are cause havoc!
7-23
55' TRY BAD GUYS!
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
The @Gilgronis put an extra shot of go-go juice in that maul. The fatties up front at their bullocking best. #AUSvDC
And their kicky boy nails the extras. BLEAK.
14-23
57' Hearn puts a hurting on someone 🏉👊💥
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
He wallops one of The Mixologists 🍸🤠 He'd be escorted from a lot of bars if he did that on Saturday night.
But he forces the kick, and Good Guys play it from deep.
60' There's a time for razzle-dazzle. And there's a time for pragmatism. Pragmatism is for getting selected by coach during the week. Razzle-dazzle is for ignoring orders on game day and playing it from everywhere. I LOVE THIS GAME! #AUSvDC pic.twitter.com/46ssPTT8Mw
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
62' Line out OGs. 30 yards from Glory!
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
Hearn rampages into the midfield. Utter disregard for his spleen. It's a platform to build from! BRING THE GLORY!
14-23
64' Bad Guys hold us up. We were oh so close! #AUSvDC pic.twitter.com/Xv4CywaFFS
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
65' OG scrum. 5 out.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
Fa’anana-Schultz cries havoc and goes full rampage off the back of the chariot! Are we going to score? #AUSvDC pic.twitter.com/TnwAtx1TLA
66' THEY HELD US UP AGAIN! It's an unbelievable goal-line stand by the bad guys. Top Work!
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
68' Bad Guys turn us over. Thwack it a bazillion miles down field. Then we miss double top at the line out.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
Bad Guys are now up to our 22. And I don't like it. I need a pint of @ExilesBarDC's best just to calm my nerves.
14-23
— Patrick Buckingham (@anthonypludwig) February 29, 2020
76' SPOT TACKLE BY THE BAD GUYS
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
Magnificent chop down on a rip-snorting Doug Fraser who had nothing by the wide-open savannah in front of him! This game is coming down the wire!!
19-23 pic.twitter.com/6r8pLTQiH4
77' Taikato-Simpson goes full crab mode 🦀
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
But this time it works. He wiggles, and shimmies, and dances past a few bad guys who are left clutching nothing but air. I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!
79' TRY OGs
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 29, 2020
Roberts-Te Nana with nothing but open paddock in front of him! And like a horse locked in a pony box for hours on end, he takes full advantage to stretch his legs!
Extras fade wide and I don't care. #AUSvDC
19-28
The MLR Shield, right now: pic.twitter.com/QYICVhUoDU
— Hard Line Rugby (@hard_rugby) March 1, 2020
My grandfather cried. He thought he’d never live to see it finally come back to the nation’s capital. We did it pop pop.
— patlantis (@PatrekurI) March 1, 2020
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) March 1, 2020