The Dew Drop Inn Virtual Rugby Pub

First topic message reminder :

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

According to our unofficial v2 rankings Wales are now fourth.

It's really bleak to see Ulster play disastrously poorly and then Irelands hearts broken, but I got a letter from the tax men saying they're sending me £341.60 in a tax refund, so it's not all bad. And I've just started my movember page;

http://mobro.co/andyhaz

Come watch the Sarries dreamer!!

rugbydreamer wrote:really looking to the QF's tomorrow. Really enjoyed the ones today, both fast paced and exciting.

I don't know what to do withmyself today now. Had loads of things lined up to distract me if we lost but I don't seem to want to do any of them now!

Nothing wrong with just enjoying yourself, and the win, today dreamer

Grab some mates, head to the pub for a nice lunch and see what happens. Cardiff will be buzzing.

S Africa and NZ the only unbeaten sides left now, and we've only had 2 of the 4 QFs. Will France become the first ever side to win the RWC after losing 2 pool games? Be just like them to do so. Good luck to all those left in and well played Wales and France today - the better teams on the day got their just reward.

The neutral - as I now am, sadly - within me hankers after a France v Carterless All Blacks Final, but all good wishes to Wales as the only remaining torch carrier for the Home Nations. Bizarrely, 'boring' England return home after 5 games with a try count of around 20-3, by my calculation.

I would like to see a France vs New Zealand final as well though. Argentina are my second team, but I've basically already accepted New Zealand will walk over them

please and leave me to stew in the corner

I have just come in from one thread where someone called "viewtothegym" really pi$$ed me off with a cheap comment. Thank Flip for decent Welsh fans like you lot. I'll be practising this all week guys


Mae Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau

Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i mi,
Gwlad beirdd a chantorion, enwogion o fri;
Ei gwrol ryfelwyr, gwladgarwyr tra mâd,
Tros ryddid gollasant eu gwaed.

Cytgan


Gwlad, Gwlad, pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad.
Tra môr yn fur i'r bur hoff bau,
O bydded i'r hen iaith barhau.


Hen Gymru fynyddig, paradwys y bardd,
Pob dyffryn, pob clogwyn i'm golwg sydd hardd;
Trwy deimlad gwladgarol, mor swynol yw si
Ei nentydd, afonydd i mi.

Os treisiodd y gelyn fy ngwald tan ei droed,
Mae hen iaith y Cymry mor fyw ac erioed,
Ni luddiwyd yr awen gan erchyll law brad,
Na thelyn berseiniol fy ngwlad.

Rava, you only need to learn the first verse! Although the 2nd verse is acutally my favourite.

Prop - nah i'm having a lazy day, I've just decided, don't feel like standing outside watching the rugby!

Hound - ah the pub, I wish but one of my friends is sick, the other working on his diss and the others are working! I am set for a quiet day. Might go out with my flatmate later though

Just come off the phone to my mam, I absolutely love it when she acutally talks rugby with me (tis very rare these days!). We were noting how strange it is that nearly all the backs come from/were educated in Carmarthenshire and the West, and that the forwards are mainly from Gwent/Cardiff/Valleys etc. It seems like it's always that way for Wales and I can't figure out why!

Just had a lovely call from mr Hughie to say he's paying Cardiff a visit for next weekend!! So so far: Wales win, England out, Hughie coming up: now for Cinderford to lose, Lydney to win, Glos to win and the Sarries to cause an upset (too much to ask?!)

Just as a matter of interest, how many of which letters are there in the Welsh language version of Scrabble?

actually, I really love the 3rd verse as well. Ah who am I kidding, I love it all

There should be 28 letters in the Welsh version of Scrabble, Simon, as far as I'm aware

prop_lyd wrote:Just had a lovely call from mr Hughie to say he's paying Cardiff a visit for next weekend!! So so far: Wales win, England out, Hughie coming up: now for Cinderford to lose, Lydney to win, Glos to win and the Sarries to cause an upset (too much to ask?!)

Don't forget Leeds in the RL

Prop - ditto...I'm up for watching the semi at the pub with you lot if you're going

Simon - they'll probably use the Welsh alphabet which has 28 letters.

J is also included even though there is no J in the Welsh alphabet.

How's this for a rugby headline on the guardian; "New Zealand must look beyond Dan Carter's groin". I say!

ah yeah Hughie coming up for the weekend twill be fab, roll on the semi final now, even if I will be a nervous wreck by Saturday!

Cymro - J is in the welsh alphabet.

Notch - women would probably read the back pages with that.

A, B, C, CH, D, DD, E, F, FF, G, NG, H, I, L, LL, M, N, O, P, PH, R, RH, S, T, TH, U, W, Y.

http://www.wales.com/en/content/cms/english/about_wales/wales_fact_file/the_welsh_alphabet/the_welsh_alphabet.aspx

Maybe a new addition but in all my 22 years of being taught Welsh, I've always been taught that it's in the alphabet anyway

I thought there'd have to be a J for words like Jackdaw - I only know this from the cartoon though

Rava wrote:

prop_lyd wrote:Just had a lovely call from mr Hughie to say he's paying Cardiff a visit for next weekend!! So so far: Wales win, England out, Hughie coming up: now for Cinderford to lose, Lydney to win, Glos to win and the Sarries to cause an upset (too much to ask?!)

Don't forget Leeds in the RL

Oh yeah forgot about that!! C'mon the Rhinos!!

Cari: i'm watching it at the george, near my house plus got a match away in Cambrian so no drinking till after my match next weekend!!

Right regs, ahve a good Saturday i'm off to severely kick some div 5 butt!!

Prop - OK. All the best for your match.

Blimey I was almost spot on with my SG pick for France/England.

yeah and things like jam Cari. It is more for adopted English words but it's definitely still there.

Did you know tehre is only one Welsh word that begins with dd? all the others are just ones that start with d but get mutated into a dd depending no the word that is before it.

aye good luck Prop!

ah well I had the points difference right in the eng v france match, just picked the wrong winner....

How did all those people come to be called Jones if there is no J?

I love dd!

that is one of the reasons it's been incorporated into the alphabet MrsP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones_%28surname%29

I think it dervies from people being called a son of Jon, it was changed to Jones. Something like that anyway.

I want you Welsh to win the whole thing now.

But there must have been a J to be a Jon?

The names must have been Welsh originally, no?

Or is that an anglicized version of a Welsh name?

Cheers Dave

anglicised version of a Welsh name MrsP. John in Welsh is Sion.

It's just that in Wales they often adopted the whole 'son of' thing, which is why there are so many surnames like Evans and Williams here to.

Instead of saying William son of William, it just turned into Williams etc.

http://genealogy.about.com/od/surname_meaning/p/jones.htm

Diolch (thanks) Dave

Cari wrote:I thought Prop wanted a Pub XV...only cause he'd be the top prop...

Ahem! Rava and I will have something to say about that!

how was the Ffairfach Mart Glas? bet everyone was happy there today!

Glas a du wrote:

Cari wrote:I thought Prop wanted a Pub XV...only cause he'd be the top prop...

Ahem! Rava and I will have something to say about that!

Glas I'm only a slip of a lad you know. Far too light to be a Prop

I know, it's officially pick on Rava day...again

Dreamer we sold some crossbred ewes well, but failed to sell the ram lamb...and bought another

Overall Glas - Profit or Loss?

small p

Glas a du wrote:small p

that's not too bad although you will still have to feed the feicer you brought back home.
Smyth getting the big cheque in August hasn't helped me. Still hasn't paid my bill

rugbydreamer wrote:There should be 28 letters in the Welsh version of Scrabble, Simon, as far as I'm aware

Try playing the Welsh version of Countdown, Simon. Just don''t ask for too many vowels

Rachel Riley's skirts are way too short to be on the Welsh version .

Aye, but its better to have a group or you have one or two buggers on a field on their own, difficult to manage. That's poor form though, what did you do for him out of interest?

He is carrying out an extension to a vacant bungalow next door to the farm, supposedly to let as holiday accommodation. I am the CDM Co-ordinator on the works (Co-ordinating Health and Safety). He's getting a Tourist Board grant for the work but the property will be for his son ultimately. He's the young fella that sold the two lambs in Scotland.

Bad news often comes in threes;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/15227951.stm?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Well, do you know a decent Solicitor?

horrible news for him Notch.

Yeah, have to feel for the guy. He's moved halfway across the world away from his friends and family and he suffers a setback like this; very tough.