photo credit: Craig Boudreaux / New Orleans Gold

MLR Highlights – NOLA Gold vs Seattle Seawolves

The NOLA Gold put their undefeated start to the 2019 Major League Rugby season on the line against the defending champion Seattle Seawolves on Sunday. For two sides provided a full 80 minutes of entertainment in a back-and-forth fixture loaded with open, attacking rugby.

Uruguay lock Ignacio Dotti made his regular season debut for New Orleans while Nick Feakes was handed his first start at flyhalf. Seattle had to contend without star flanker Vili Toluta’u and gave Eric Duechle his first start of the campaign while welcoming back Ben Cima to the run-on side.

Video highlights below are courtesy of MLR. A detailed match report can be seen here.

The Gold have also posted a video review of the match featuring interviews with scrumhalf Holden Yungert and coach Nate Osborne that can be seen below.

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