#DCvSEA
28-22 to the Good Guys. Someone get the defibrillator!
The first ever home game for the mighty OGs was always gonna be huge. The fact we were up against the two-time defending champions made it even more so. The rip-snorting, bone-jangling encounter was finished by a goal line stand and a dramatic win for the Good Guys. Enjoy.
🚨 Ohh Geez. Ohh Geez. Ohh Geez. 🚨
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
For the first time, It’s @USMLR professional rugby in the nation’s capital! @Beast_TM, and your mighty OGs take on @SeawolvesRugby AKA, The Soggy Puppies 🐶🚿 at 3pm
🎙ALRIGHT. HAND IT OVER. WE NEED MORE NONSENSE.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
Attention all fat props, fast backs, and family folks.
THE MONUMENT MAN is coming to you live and loose from the Bird’s Nest at Cardinal Stadium. It’s an Old Glory-ous day in the District. Bring on The Soggy Puppies 🐶🚿 #DCvSEA
📺🙌🏉🙌📺
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
Follow along for an afternoon of ruck-raiding, high-flying, bone-jangling rugby union from The Magnificent Mungo Mason, @Beast_TM, and the rest of the OGs as they battle @SeawolvesRugby (AKA The Soggy Puppies 🐶🚿) at 3pm. #DCvSEA
📣 ATTENTION ALL BEER DRINKERS, FREEDOM ENTHUSIASTS, AND FAMILY FOLKS: TODAY IS A RUGBY DAY. AND YOU'RE INVITED.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
🏉 OGs vs. @SeawolvesRugby
🏟 Cardinal Stadium
🎟 Went faster than @Dougfraser15
⏰ 3pm
📺 NBC Sports Washington, ESPN+, Root Sport
🍔 @SousVideCuisine
🍺 OHHHH YES!
🏟 OGs IN THE HOUSE 🏟
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
Check out your lineup!
🏋️♂️ @Beast_TM at the top of the team sheet
🚀 Mungo Mason strapped to the side of the chariot
🦁 Thretton Palamo and his glorious mane in the midfield
🎼 Jason Robertson conducts the symphony from 10 #DCvSEA pic.twitter.com/ZpzdYe62nM
Not at the stadium? Not to worry.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
Beam the rugby right into your eyeballs from 3pm EST. #DCvSEA
(🏉+💪+❤️+🇺🇸 + 🎥)
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(🗼🛰 🌎 🛰🗼)
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(📺 NBC Sports Washington, ESPN+, Root Sport + 👀)
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=🤯 pic.twitter.com/BYPWnCDn0b
🥾 🏉 kickoff is T-30mins at Cardinal stadium 🏟#DCvSEA pic.twitter.com/oEWHCKgzmW
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
Intel on the bad guys: Courtesy of THE MONUMENT MAN
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
🌊 Team: @SeawolvesRugby
🌊 Alias: The Soggy Puppies 🐶🚿
🌊 Style: Muscular
🌊 Captain: Aquaman (AKA Reikert Hattingh)
🌊 Traveled: 2,767mi 🏃♂️🚍🛫🛬🚍🏃♂️
🌊 Secret Weapon: Championship Knowledge 🧠
🌊 Fears: @Beast_TM pic.twitter.com/8E0UVdMUOm
Stuff The Soggy Puppies 🐶🚿 Don’t have:
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
1: A World Cup-winning loosehead @Beast_TM 🏋️♂️
2: The youngest ever American World Cup player 🦁
3: The best sandwich in the game 🍔 @SousVideCuisine#DCvSEA pic.twitter.com/tguWw5LHex
Stuff The Soggy Puppies 🐶🚿 do have:
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
1: A trophy cabinet full of @USMLR shields 🛡️🛡️
2: I repeat. They have never not won this competition!
3: ….gulp 😱 @SeawolvesRugby #DCvSEA pic.twitter.com/SQOUDMxlw4
IT’S SO CLOSE I CAN BEARLY CONTAIN MYSELF!
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
🇺🇸 Anthems are go!
💥 Tackles are imminent!
🏉 #Gloryawaits!#DCvSEA pic.twitter.com/HGw4qcvBOj
🚨That’s enough piddling about🚨
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
🚨Let the mayhem commence🚨
1’ The rugby gods want a good view of this one. Not a cloud in the sky for the first-ever home game. OGs kick off. The pack in hot pursuit. Travis Larsen about to clobber anyone and everyone wearing green. 🏉👊💥💪
'2 Danny Boy look sharp with a pick and go!
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
BEAST thunders into the midfield! What a time to be alive!
Here. We. Go!
0-0
'4 TRY TIME TO THE GOOD GUYS!!
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
Robertson with the searing break!
Robertson hits the jets!
Robertson showing a clean pair of heels!
ROBERTSON WITH THE EVERYTHING
Kick sails wide
5-0
'6 Line out OGs!
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
Fa'ana Schultz clatters into the midfield. Soggy Puppies can't handle it and give away a penalty.
Robertson calls sticks. let's fly. And nails it.
8-0#DCvSEA
9' Bad Guys win a penalty.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
We're called for cheating, looking awesome, and being too good.
But they're up to the 22.
'10 Soggy Puppies win a penalty under the shadow of the posts.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
Someone got a BEASTing. And the Ref didn't like it. Bad guys call sticks. And close the gap.
8-3
11' Scrum to the OGs. Penalty to the Soggy Puppies.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
It's the same storyline as last week so far. Bad Guys with a bullocking run up the guts off the top of the lineout.
8-3
Fiddle sticks. 🤔😂😂😂
— Crooked Finger Fan (@Crkdfingerfan) February 16, 2020
16' More exuberance by us. More penalties for them.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
But the bad guys miss touch. And Taikato-Simpson whacks it back into half way.
Line out OGs
18' Turnover OGs!!
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
We're playing it fast and loose. Whipping it this way and that. Palamo's mane 🦁 flapping the breeze.
Good Guys looking Good in the dazzling white jerseys
8-6
20' Break time.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
Thank goodness. That was 20mins of pulsating action. End to end stuff by the good and the pure. We're playing like a bunch of rampaging victory men!! #gloryawaits
8-3 pic.twitter.com/h2p07BU3Jx
23' Knock on by the Good Guys
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
The fans don't like it. But it definitely was. Whoda thought DC would have a partisan crowd 🤔🤫 pic.twitter.com/Uyx1CMJIiY
24' OGs with some manful defense.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
Bad guys running into brick walls. Then like a bunch of total nitwits they run into some more. Now that's just not smart chaps!! Not smart at all!!
8-3 pic.twitter.com/Nl0G5HzYnk
26' OG lineout in the This-Could-Mean-Points side of the field.@Beast_TM with a quadful of might. Palamo with hairful of grace! We're on the front foot!
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
LET'S GO!!
29' TRY TIME OGs!!@Dougfraser15 dives over in the corner! What a score. The fat boys played it the tight. Then the fast boys spun it wide. Rugby as it should be. #DCvSEA
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
🎯 Extras fade wide.
13-6 pic.twitter.com/QbdUT0fwbE
33' Bad Guys ruin out Line out. Boo to them!
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
But it gives us a chance to SMASH THEM! 🏉👊💥💪
And SMASH EM' we very much do!
Then we give a penalty away for skullduggery☠️
13-6
36' The Soggy Puppies 🐶🚿 knocking on the door.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
Larsen puts an end to the nonsense with a crunching hit. It's a little Houdini magic to get us out of trouble.#DCvSEA pic.twitter.com/PDfUHg6oPJ
38' Bad Guys launch an attack off the scrum!
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
Rip it into the midfield. Send the OGs flying like pinballs at a bowling alley! Win a penalty. And call posts.
🎯 Nail it
13-9
40' And that's the Half.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
Swashbuckling brilliance by the Good Guys 🤺
Boring kicking by the Bad Guys 🎯😴
All to the play for in the #DistrictOfChampions#DCvSEA pic.twitter.com/dM3gpvQMBc
Half time thoughts from Coach Douglas:
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
🧠 Focus
🎯 Accuracy
🧨Patience pic.twitter.com/0rmwk58qKw
40' Second half is Go!
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
Clear skies at Cardinal Stadium. The Rugby gods want a good view of your OGs dishing up the capital remedies to The Soggy Puppies 🐶🚿 #DCvSEA
HERE. WE. GO.
13-9
42' Scrum time = Penalty time.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
It's becoming a worrying tradition for the OGs. Bad guys call posts (like a boring team would). And nail it!
🎯🎯🎯🎯
13-12 pic.twitter.com/3v7zTO458n
47' Bad Guys starting to show their class.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
Another nice little scoot down the wing. Offloads starting to do to hand. Things are starting to look a little ominous.
I DON'T LIKE IT. NOT ONE BIT. NO. NO. NO. pic.twitter.com/IjBAKn4PnD
49' Good Guys pilfer a lineout. Boot it long!
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
Soggies have to run it from deep. And AARRRGGG they almost do. Bad Guys 15 has wheels! 🏉🏃...🌬️ #DCvSEA
13-19
50' THE MAGNIFICENT MUGO MASON WITH THE INTERCEPTION!!
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
He gallops 80m, before being cut down. Soggy Puppies 🐶🚿 told off for cheating. And one of 'em is going to the bin 🟨
🎯 Robertson makes them pay
16-19
55' It's carnage in the Bird's Nest.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
I've dropped my beer. My power cable came out. It's all gone horribly wrong. I have nothing to say but sorry.
In the meantime, the bad guys took the lead with another 3-pointer 🎯
16-22 BAD GUYS! pic.twitter.com/v8tL7gHKYW
59' TRY TIME OGs!
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
Roberts-Te Nana lurking out on the wing. Jersey without a speck of dirt on it. A winger after my own heart.
🎯The kick is good. BECAUSE WE'RE GOOD!
OG's take the lead! #DCvSEA
23-22 pic.twitter.com/i71uFIkcfy
Great beer garden tonight! Whoever made the playlist before the match did an amazing job!
— Rachel ⭐️💚💙⭐ (@rachelhaines) February 16, 2020
62' OGs with the rub of the green and the luck of the @washingtonirish
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
Mungo Mason with an outrageous steal. And BEAST THWACKS it up the middle. This is rugby at it's bone-jangling best 🏉🙌👊💥💪
Bring the Glory!!
Spot the brits 😉
— Hugh (@DCHugh58) February 17, 2020
@thistlerugbypod a shining light during a cold dark 6 nations campaign. Thank Christ the old glory twitter man is back
— John Stewart (@Billa1995) February 16, 2020
That was a nasty hit!
— Nick Saacks (@nhsaacks) February 17, 2020
BEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAASST
— Andrew O'Mahony 🇿🇦🇺🇲 (@andrew_omahony) February 17, 2020
73' It's bobbly-hands dropies-time for The Soggy Puppies 🐶🚿
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
Knock on in the backfield. OGs with the chance to close the sucker out. Keep the bad guys as far away from our half as possible please. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE pic.twitter.com/D9ctvPXI34
76' OGs knocking on the door.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
We're into the We-Can-Win-This side of the field. 15 out from glory! Can we sneak another?#gloryawaits pic.twitter.com/ZHyMkftWu7
77' TRY TIME OGs!!
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
We are a simply magnificent rugby team. We can play it tight. We can play it loose. We can run it from anywhere. And we are going to win this game!!! I don't know who scored. I'm just too excited to care right now!!
28-22 pic.twitter.com/iuB0oUQNkk
79' Squeaky bum time for the OGs.
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
The Soggy Puppies🐶🚿 have a scrum close to the line. They launch their attack. We have to hold them out. This is coming down the wire.
COME ON BOYS!!
80' WE HELD THEM UP! WE HELD. THEM. UP!
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020
Brilliant call, brilliant game
— amou (@Amoulin98) February 16, 2020
Good luck for the rest of the season, from a rugby fan on the other side of the Atlantic
Great commentary @GlasgowWarriors
— John Darroch (@JohnnyDarroch) February 17, 2020
Our experts disagreed. 🧐 https://t.co/ZwFsIbkaBF
— Old Glory DC (@OldGloryDC) February 16, 2020