MLR ROUND-UP
By SAM JACKSON

LA GILTINIS’ star-studded line-up tasted victory in their maiden match in Major League Rugby, beating New England Free Jacks 42-27.
DTH van der Merwe touched down the team’s first points in franchise history, with Adam Ashley-Cooper making an offload out the back of the hand for the Canadian to run in under the posts.
In a match of criminal indiscipline, both teams had players sent to the bin in LA’s Christian Poidevine, Ashley-Cooper and Free Jacks duo Aleki Morris-Lome and Mitchell Wilson, before the visitors had John Polland sh...