New Orleans Gold

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New Orleans Gold
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Founded 2017
Location Metairie, Louisiana
Ground(s) Gold Mine (Capacity: 10,000)
Coach(es) Nate Osborne
Captain(s) Kyle Baillie
Top scorer JP Eloff (206)
Most tries Tristan Blewett (12)
League(s) Major League Rugby
2021 5th place (regular season)
1st kit
2nd kit
Official website
www.nolagoldrugby.com

The New Orleans Gold, stylized as NOLA Gold, is a professional rugby union team based in New Orleans. The team was founded in 2017 and competes in Major League Rugby.[1] Since January 2020, French rugby power ASM Clermont Auvergne has owned a minority stake in the team.[2]

Home field

The team plays at the Gold Mine, also known as Shrine on Airline, in Metairie, Louisiana, on the East Bank of the New Orleans metropolitan area.[3]

For the first two seasons of Major League Rugby in 2018 and 2019, the team played at Joe Zimmerman Stadium at Archbishop Shaw High School under the branding of Gold Stadium. The natural turf field with grandstand seating for up to 3,000 people is located on the West Bank at Marrero, Louisiana.[4][5]

Broadcasts

2019 home games were shown on Cox Sports Television. Ian McNulty and Scott Alexander were the on air talent.

Sponsorship

Season Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor
2018 XBlades None
2019 Louisiana Tourism
2020–present Paladin Sports None

Players and personnel

Current squad

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For player movements before and during the 2021 season, see List of 2020–21 Major League Rugby transfers § New Orleans Gold.

The New Orleans Gold squad for the 2021 Major League Rugby season is:[6]

Note: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under WR eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-WR nationality.

Player Position Union
Eric Howard Hooker Canada Canada
Stephen McLeish Hooker United States United States
Kevin O’Connor Hooker United States United States
Pat O'Toole Hooker United States United States
Matt Harmon Prop United States United States
James Irey Prop United States United States
Brian Nault Prop United States United States
Kavika Peniata Prop United States United States
John Sullivan Prop United States United States
Kevin Sullivan Prop United States United States
Ben Tarr Prop United States United States
Dino Waldren Prop United States United States
Kyle Baillie (c) Lock Canada Canada
Ignacio Dotti Lock Uruguay Uruguay
Billy Stewart Lock United States United States
Kane Thompson Lock Samoa Samoa
William Waguespack Lock United States United States
Andrew Guerra Flanker United States United States
Giovanni Lapp Flanker United States United States
Malcolm May Flanker United States United States
Devin Short Flanker United States United States
Moni Tonga’uiha Flanker United States United States
Osaiasi Tonga’uiha Flanker United States United States
Nikola Bursic Number 8 Chile Chile
Cam Dolan Number 8 United States United States
Player Position Union
Cian Barry Scrum-half United States United States
Damian Stevens Scrum-half Namibia Namibia
Holden Yungert Scrum-half United States United States
Robbie Coleman Fly-half Australia Australia
Timothée Guillimin Fly-half France France
Keanu Andrade Centre United States United States
Juan Cappiello Centre Argentina Argentina
Ross Depperschmidt Centre United States United States
JP du Plessis Centre South Africa South Africa
Lockie Kratz Centre Canada Canada
Kyle Rogers Centre United States United States
Hanno Dirksen Wing South Africa South Africa
Julián Domínguez Wing Argentina Argentina
Nick Feakes* Wing Australia Australia
Tim Maupin Wing United States United States
Joeli Tikoisuva Wing United States United States
Jack Webster Wing United States United States
JP Eloff Fullback United States United States
Carl Meyer Fullback South Africa South Africa
Cameron Troxler Fullback United States United States
  • Senior 15s and senior 7s internationally capped players are listed in bold.
  • * denotes players qualified to play for the United States on dual nationality or residency grounds.
  • MLR teams are allowed to field up to ten overseas players per match.

Head coaches

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Captains

Records

Season standings

Year Pos Pld W D L F A +/− BP Pts   Playoffs
2018 6th 8 3 0 5 209 291 -82 5 17   Did not qualify
2019 5th 16 9 0 7 463 403 +60 17 53   Did not qualify
2020 4th 5 3 0 2 135 102 +33 4 16   Season cut short due to Coronavirus Pandemic
2021 5th 16 10 1 5 375 378 -3 9 51   Did not qualify

2018 season

Date Opponent Home/Away Result
January 20 Capital Selects° Home Won, 68–15
February 24 Houston SaberCats° Away Won, 30–12
March 10 Glendale Raptors° Home Lost, 14–38
March 28 Houston SaberCats° Home Draw, 32–32
March 31 Austin Elite° Home Won, 48–17
April 7 Austin Elite° Away Won, 38–10
April 21 Houston SaberCats Away Won, 35–26
May 3 Austin Elite Away Lost, 17–30
May 12 Seattle Seawolves Home Lost, 29–31
May 19 Houston SaberCats Home Won, 24–20
May 27 Seattle Seawolves Away Lost, 26–55
June 3 Glendale Raptors Home Lost, 10–41
June 9 San Diego Legion Home Lost, 22–39
June 16 Utah Warriors Away Won, 46–43

° = Exhibition game

2019 season

Exhibitions

Date Opponent Home/Away Result
December 8, 2018 USA South Panthers Home Won, 45–10
December 15, 2018 Stars Rugby[8] Home Won, 113–0
January 5, 2019 Midwest Selects Home Won, 74–0
January 12, 2019 Dallas Reds Home Won, 72–0

Regular season

Date Opponent Home/Away Result
January 26 Toronto Arrows Home Won, 36-31
February 2 Glendale Raptors Home Won, 40-31
February 10 Seattle Seawolves Home Won, 41-31
February 16 Rugby United New York Home Lost, 24–27
March 2 Utah Warriors Away Won, 21-19
March 16 Houston SaberCats Away Won, 49-11
March 23 Austin Elite Home Won, 35–31
March 30 Glendale Raptors Away Lost, 33-34
April 7 Toronto Arrows Away Won, 35-31
April 13 Utah Warriors Home Won, 28-19
April 21 Seattle Seawolves Away Lost, 24–25
May 4 Austin Elite Away Won, 26-14
May 11 San Diego Legion Home Lost, 19–26
May 18 Houston SaberCats Home Lost, 20–27
May 26 Rugby United New York Away Lost, 22-24
June 2 San Diego Legion Away Lost, 10-22

2020 season

On March 12, 2020, MLR announced the season would go on hiatus immediately for 30 days due to fears surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.[9] One week later (March 19), MLR announced that it had canceled the rest of the 2020 season.[10]

Regular season

Date Opponent Home/Away Result
February 8 Old Glory DC Home Won, 46–13
February 16 Rugby ATL Home Lost, 10–22
February 22 Colorado Raptors Away Won, 27–20
February 29 San Diego Legion Home Lost, 21–25
March 7 New England Free Jacks Home Won, 31–22
March 13 Utah Warriors Away Postponed, later canceled
March 28 Toronto Arrows Home Canceled
April 5 Rugby ATL Away Canceled
April 11 Old Glory DC Away Canceled
April 18 Rugby United New York Home Canceled
April 25 New England Free Jacks Away Canceled
May 3 Toronto Arrows Away Canceled
May 9 Houston SaberCats Home Canceled
May 17 Seattle Seawolves Away Canceled
May 23 Austin Gilgronis Home Canceled
May 30 Rugby United New York Away Canceled

2021 season

Regular season

Date Opponent Home/Away Result
March 21 Old Glory DC Home Draw, 26–26
March 27 Rugby United New York Home Won, 51–28
April 10 Austin Gilgronis Home Lost, 15–18
April 17 New England Free Jacks Home Won 30-29
April 24 Rugby ATL Away Lost, 28-38
May 2 Toronto Arrows Home Won, 22-14
May 8 Houston SaberCats Away Won, 28-26
May 15 San Diego Legion Away Lost, 17-43
May 22 Utah Warriors Home Won, 29-24
June 5 Rugby ATL Home Lost, 7-8
June 12 Old Glory DC Away Won, 25-21
June 20 Toronto Arrows Away Won, 18-12
June 27 New England Free Jacks Away Won, 17-9
July 4 LA Giltinis Away Won, 21-20
July 11 Seattle Seawolves Away Lost, 6-30
July 17 Rugby United New York Away Won, 35-32

References

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