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 collage of pub regulars. We've got the big group pic from the HEC final in Cardiff, plus insets of ll those who couldn't make it

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



Last Pub: https://www.606v2.com/t15430p950-the-dew-drop-inn-virtual-rugby-pub#560300

Excited post!

Good scrum SA

Stern turning into ROG.

Morning Dreamer.

Fair play Genia, what a pass!

aye that it twas Glas.

I can honestly say I don't mind either of these teams winning today.

Howya Gibbo, ti'n okay?

Sorry, as Dreamer is here I should translate

Excited post! - excited as a post - it's a metaphor

Yeah pal. Grand this morn. Did not drink last nigh/yesterday. Just tea. Really helps...

This is some level and at some pace, eh? Check the offloading by both.

Wales and Ireland did the NH proud yesterday. High-intensity high level game also. Meant to say that.

Since when did the Kiwis start behaving like soccer fans?

It's not just Pocock who is fantastic at the breakdown for the Aussies.

oooo try Australia! didn't think they'd be scoring first!

TRY! Aussie. Horwill. Captain!

The Captain scores!!!

Class try for Aus, that's how you use unexpected ball. But what were SA doing?

feckin misses... wtf!

Gibson wrote:Yeah pal. Grand this morn. Did not drink last nigh/yesterday. Just tea. Really helps...

This is some level and at some pace, eh? Check the offloading by both.

Wales and Ireland did the NH proud yesterday. High-intensity high level game also. Meant to say that.

+1 there really was some superb rugby on display from both sides, for a netural it must have been a great match to watch.

I wish I had not drunk yesterdaY. Too much and now have a haedache. Water and tea for me today.

Oz look Primed here. In defence and in attack. Like Wales yesterday in fact.

Oh I think I've come in my pants. Beale is the best player in the World.

great hit on Elsom to win back posession there.

I love this. What a match!

Your win over the Aussies looks better and better Gibbo. Take that and plant it, nurture it and make it grow.

Is Lawrence serious or what, he's letting allsorts go at the breakdown.

I love the Kiwi taste in stadium music. We are hicks, but we don't care!

Very Jennings-like by Pocock.

Thank flip Lawrence wasn't reffing yesterday, it's a free for all at the ruck. You'd have beaten us.

Lawrence is usually really harsh at the breakdown and been overly whislte happy, now he's going the other way. Strange.

Gibson wrote:Very Jennings-like by Pocock.

c'mere

How do you deal with a big man on the charge? Tackle him early and tackle him low. Wales nullifed SOB yesterday. Ferris though was still a pain in the arse. Heaslip was largely anonymous. It was calling out for Jennings!

How to butcher an overlap by SA. I thought super rugby was all about sorting that sort of rubbish out?

Is Gomersall the most boring pundit yet?

Call me old fashioned, but if he doesn't fancy the kick go for an up and under landing just in front of the posts.

Glas a du wrote:

Gibson wrote:Very Jennings-like by Pocock.

c'mere

How do you deal with a big man on the charge? Tackle him early and tackle him low. Wales nullifed SOB yesterday. Ferris though was still a pain in the arse. Heaslip was largely anonymous. It was calling out for Jennings!

I know. But tell the ball-carrying 7, obsessed Cork-Irish coaches that. They don't know what a 7 is. And it has cost us. Seeing Pocock out there now, SOB would have really been checked out as a 7 earlier - in the pool.

If Jenno was English - he'd be in their team. But, he'd be out now like... ifyanoworimeanbud?

I can see why the Super Rugby template is popular, it suits the SH down to the ground and does prepare them well for playing each other. I don't know that it prepares them for cup style rugby. Whatever happens it will be an intense final. Jiw, edrych mlaen? Paid a siarad!

I did try pre match Gibbo, but your countrymen treated me like a loon. I could see however that all Irish eggs were being placed in a pretty ropey basket.

Morning all, been awake since 3 a.m. so, yes, I'm watching the game as well.

Shwmae Mrs Penfro, lovely to have you back safe.

still getting used to the time difference MrsPenfro?

Got to say I watched taht first half in a bit of a daze, need some more tea to wake me up!

Been reading a few more articles about the change in Wales' tackling technique. Edwards says he wants to reinvent ankle tackling, something like that. It certainly worked for us yesterday anyway.

Mornin MrsPenfro. Lovely to see you.

Really hotting up this one. Love it.

I'm not quite sure what it is. I'm not very good at sleeping during the day either so I don't really want to start doing that otherwise I'll never cope with work (not looking forward to tomorrow!).

It's quite a messy game isn't it. The Aussie backs seem to be running through the SAffers very easily but they're not really finishing off.

Do you reckon the booing is getting to Cooper?

big big call by the ref there, not sure there was much wrong with that! thought that was superb SA play.


ooo you know what, on the replay, that was v, v close!

Is that the best disallowed try ever? Why did De Villiers not play like that for Munster?

Flat? Not quite convinced by Bryce Lawrence's display. That must be a first, SH ref pulling them back for a forward pass.

The ref's losing the plot, that one was in no way forward.

He's rubbing off on you, he is, I can hear him in your posts...or is it you that rubbed off in him? Hmmm?

Go Rocky!

Will Gomarsall last the match without falling asleep? Where do they find these commentators, Vickery like an over-excited chimp yesterday and Gomarsall completely the other way. They'd be better off getting 'Rhian 'Madam Rygbi' Davies' to do it, she'd make it funny at least.

Gibbo, she's a character on the 'Jonathan' show on S4C.

ha I watched Jonathan last night and I think she's fab. On the coverage on S4C she always gets on camera!

It was nice to see Mathew Rhys back in Wales as well. We don't see enough of him...

Flip I can't remember the last time I saw a 22 drop out charged down!

I know MrsPenfro, he was at my graduation at Uni in Aberystwyth, getting a fellowship. He's the only reason I actually went to it!

Getting interesting now...

Drop goal - nails it.

BBC had scrum 4, she is scrum bit of a 1