The Austin Gilgronis host Rugby ATL as the RATLERs visit Bold Stadium.

It was a tight affair throughout, with Mack Mason converting Conner Mooneyham’s 74th minute try to give Austin a 14-12 lead before the AGs gave away a penalty within Robbie Petzer’s range in the 78th minute, who nailed the kick to swing the game back in ATL’s favour, 14-15. The final drama came right at the death when Rugby ATL gave away a penalty of their own in the 80th minute and Mack Mason made no mistake, splitting the uprights to give the Gilgronis a 17-15 win.

The Austin Gilgronis host their Texas rivals the Houston SaberCats at Bold Stadium, in Major League Rugby’s 2nd ever Texas Cup match!

This game was entirely Austin, with the AGs scoring tries throughout the match for a total of 4 for the try bonus point. Even better for Austin’s home crowd, they didn’t let the Cats get on the board, blanking them 26-0 in the 4th shutout in MLR history. At the time, this was a Franchise Record for the biggest winning margin in club history and they successfully defend the Texas Cup!

For Houston, they hold the unenviable record of being the only MLR team to date to have been shut out more than once, having also been blanked by the Free Jacks last week. They didn’t help themselves, with 3 yellow cards leaving them shorthanded for a significant portion of the game. In their last two matches, then have been outscored 58-0.

The Utah Warriors came away from Bold Stadium with a tight 28-30 victory over the Austin Gilgronis.

Utah had 3 players yellow carded throughout the game equating to playing with 14 men of 30 minutes, and still emerged with a bonus point victory over the men from the Texan capital, despite the AGs scoring 14 points in the last 11 minutes of the match.

The Warriors’ first try, scored by Michael Baska, was directly under the posts and was therefore an automatic 7pt try, as per MLR’s new rules for 2021. Austin wouldn’t come away empty handed, with a 2pt loss thanks to 4 tries scored and losing by within 7pts.

This game marked the Major League Rugby debut of MLR’s first ever 1st overall draft pick, Conner Mooneyham, who started at number 11 for Austin.

The Utah Warriors travel to Bold Stadium within the Circuit of the Americas to face the Austin Gilgronis. This game took place on February 22nd, 2020 and at the time, Austin had not won a MLR game since 1st June, 2018.

The Gilgronis are desperate for a win, and were holding a 20-13 lead into the last minute of the game when the Utah Warriors used an attacking lineout to set upa driving maul that could not be stopped with Kalolo Tuiloma eventually darting over from close range, and Hagen Schulte nailing the conversion to tie the game at the final whistle, 20-20.

It’s the first time in 20 games that Austin came away with something more than a loss, but they were so close to a victory that a draw may well have felt like defeat.

The Toronto Arrows had an ideal start to their 2020 campaign, with a convincing 10-38 victory on the road against the newly rebranded Austin Gilgronis.

Following their dismal 0-16 season in 2019, the ‘AGs’ went from the ‘Austin Elite’ to the ‘Austin Herd’ to the ‘Austin Gilgronis’ within the span of one off-season, and their 2020 season did not get off to a good start in this game.