The Dew Drop Inn Virtual Rugby Pub

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Welcome to the virtual rugby pub - a place where you can come in for a sly beverage and discuss whatever's on your mind, or just eavesdrop on the regulars if you fancy a break from all the rugby chat.

The only rule in this pub is one of mutual respect for everyone in it, oh and no defacing the Tommy Bowe photo on the bar. That's a banning offence

So pull up a chair....what'll it be?

I definitely do Rev. Not my job to do it. I'm only writing on one.

Afternoon

Back at work now. Had the pleasure of being in Merthyr Tydfil this morning. The traffic was horrendous because there was big accident on the main road and it was closed for most of today. I'm shattered...could do with an afternoon nap...

wweeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEAAaaaawwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggg!!!!!!!!

Good point well made.

I think this is the best piece of journalism I've read ever http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/paul-galvins-fashion-manifesto-2506598.html

red_stag wrote:I definitely do Rev. Not my job to do it. I'm only writing on one.

Stag, Rev, suggestions as to which ones (pref. with links?). Work's busy and I haven't been reading those threads

Thomond,

Why did you put me through that?

Sounds like you need a disco nap Cari – I swear by them!

You actually read it?!

The whole way through.

Quite insulting to most Irish men really.

Kiwi, I was just having a well earned dig at Stag after his similar comment yesterday. I haven't started on him yet for the Principality one.

Seems I might have some decisions to make this weekend. England v Wales (not sure if I'm too bothered), Wigan v Saints in the Challenge Cup Semi Final and probably the Men of Gwent 7's. Might also have a rugby match myself. I guess I'll be sky plussing the two games.

Fancy a nap myself, but I need to fight to stay up to try and lose this jetlag.

Mickado wrote:Sounds like you need a disco nap Cari – I swear by them!

Ha yeah, I could do with one of them....nearly home time though. Glad to hear you're settling into the new place OK and hope the naff, but highly educational, tea towel is getting some use

Thomond - has Galvin given up football to be a full time fashion icon w@nker these days? What a waste...

Risca - croeso nol. Hope your trip was all right (despite jet lag). I feel a bit bus lagged myself...

No he played on Sunday,he is a fabulous footballer,just a complete plank!

Do you think Galvin could have made a good rugby player?

He was an awful soccer player,so no!

I think that football translates a little better to rugby than soccer does.

It was a bit of a separate point but I don't see why he would be a good rugby player. He is selfish and I don't think he would do a lot of grunt work.

MBTGOG wrote:I think that football translates a little better to rugby than soccer does.

Eh? Am I missing something?

Glas,

Football = Gaelic Football

Soccer = Football Association

In Ireland, football isn't what Man Utd and Chelsea play.

Hook, line and, erm, sinker.

I'm confused. Was that question some kind of bait? I don't get it.

Glas a du wrote:Hook, line and, erm, sinker.

Made my day.

Nibble nibble Staglaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

I see that "part time comic" Jonnie Marbles has been handed a six week stretch for giving Murdoch a shaving cream pie in the face t'other week....

Not sure you did get anyone with that Glas.

Half the population of Ireland call soccer football so it’s not unusual to hear people clarifying which game they’re talking about. I don’t call it football on principle and I know I’m going to have to explain myself, but that’s a cross I bare.

Staglaa!! I feel like i'm in Gavin and Stacey

I don't call Soccer "football" as for me football means Gaelic Football and the other is soccer.

I usually call it Gah or football.

As,

The LV= fixtures have been drawn and there is no trip to Sandy Park for me. Gutted.

Hound had better get his drinking boots on though. That's the week before my 30th too.

Round 1 – 14/15/16 October

Northampton Saints v Saracens
Worcester Warriors v London Wasps
Dragons v Bath Rugby
Exeter Chiefs v Ospreys
Newcastle Falcons v Cardiff Blues
Harlequins v London Irish
Gloucester Rugby v Sale Sharks
Scarlets v Leicester Tigers(SaturdayOctober15Sky SportsHD, KO 1800)


Round 2 – 21/22/23 October

Saracens v Exeter Chiefs
London Wasps v Dragons
Bath Rugby v Worcester Warriors
Ospreys v Northampton Saints(Saturday October 22, Sky SportsHD,KO1800)
London Irish v Newcastle Falcons
Sale Sharks v Harlequins
Leicester Tigers v Gloucester Rugby
Cardiff Blues v Scarlets


Round 3 – 27/28/29 January

Ospreys v Dragons
London Wasps v Exeter Chiefs
Saracens v Worcester Warriors
Bath Rugby v Northampton Saints
Newcastle Falcons v Sale Sharks
Harlequins v Leicester Tigers
Scarlets v London Irish
Gloucester Rugby v Cardiff Blues


Round 4 – 3/4/5 February

Exeter Chiefs v Bath Rugby
Worcester Warriors v Ospreys
Northampton Saints v London Wasps
Dragons v Saracens
Cardiff Blues v Harlequins
Leicester Tigers v Newcastle Falcons
London Irish v Gloucester Rugby
Sale Sharks v Scarlets


Semi finals (9/10/11 March, venue TBC)

Final (16/17/18 March, venue TBC)

Explain yourself Mick.

Mickado wrote:Not sure you did get anyone with that Glas.

Half the population of Ireland call soccer football so it’s not unusual to hear people clarifying which game they’re talking about. I don’t call it football on principle and I know I’m going to have to explain myself, but that’s a cross I bare.

Well if you're going to split hares...

I work on the theory that the majority of the English-speaking world* calls it soccer, and so shall I


*Wow, I just found a use for 300-odd million Yanks

Old rabbits die hard.

Munster,

I've seen Tomklns' second now. Great gas.

MBTGOG wrote:Explain yourself Mick.

?

Glas, without pedants the internet would be a very boring place!

luckless_pedestrian wrote:Old rabbits die hard.

Yes, but he was quite hard of thinking by the end.

I don’t call it football on principle and I know I’m going to have to explain myself, but that’s a cross I bare.

Bare your cross. Explain yourself and your principles.

MBTGOG wrote:

I don’t call it football on principle and I know I’m going to have to explain myself, but that’s a cross I bare.

Bare your cross. Explain yourself and your principles.

Agree out with it. Hope its not to do with some republican no-foriegn-games thing

The word soccer is derived from asocciation football. Football refers to any game played on foot (not on horseback). Real talk.

robbo277 wrote:The word soccer is derived from asocciation football. Football refers to any game played on foot (not on horseback). Real talk.

Schooled!

robbo277 wrote:The word soccer is derived from asocciation football. Football refers to any game played on foot (not on horseback). Real talk.

Your first sentence is right but the second can't be true. Tennis and cricket are played on foot but you don't call them football.

Your third sentence is a radio station, isn't it?

I was just sloppy with my wording. Football was a game played in medieval times on foot (not on horseback). All forms of football (rugby football, association football, gaelic football, american football, aussie rules football etc) developed from that game. People call the most popular code of football in their area "football", and refer to others by their full names. Of course, there are some games on foot (like tennis and cricket) that don't have roots in "football" and therefore aren't called football.

Sorry, Robbo. It's unlike me to pick people up on things like that.

It's all good, it was misleading.

Nice trivia Robbo!

MunsterBTGOG (that'll catch on), like Robbo said people call the more popular code football, I call Gaelic football "football" since it's more popular in my head brain and the cross that I bare is the constant need to clarify which code I'm talking about.

Now, where's my copy of An Bunreacht

Mickado wrote: in my head brain

As opposed to your ar$e brain obviously .....

Ah I see where we got mixed up. When I said I was going to have to explain myself, I meant that I have to clarify which code when I'm talking IN GENERAL. not that I have something to explain to you folks.

PenfroPete wrote:

Mickado wrote: in my head brain

As opposed to your ar$e brain obviously .....

Shut you're mouth face!

Mickado wrote:

MBTGOG wrote:Explain yourself Mick.

?

Glas, without pedants the internet would be a very boring place!

Micheal, far be it from moi to pass comment, but I would just like to point out, that officially, as of today, in the PM, you should change your location status in your profile, from Talifornia to Rothgor now. We have certain standards to keep on here and it would be absolutely spiffing if you could adhere to said standards. Thanking you muchly.



What's a pedant? Is it an insect that stalks underage insects?

Mickado wrote:

PenfroPete wrote:

Mickado wrote: in my head brain

As opposed to your ar$e brain obviously .....

Shut you're mouth face!

Shut you are mouth face?????

Phook, knew that pedant comment would bite me in the orse!
Gibbo, well spotted, but I can't delete Tallafornia from it just yet, I haven't totally let go!

Gibson wrote:



What's a pedant? Is it an insect that stalks underage insects?

Surely such an insect is a paedant ...