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 pictures of Shane Williams above the bar!


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



Old Pub:https://www.606v2.com/t19107p950-the-dew-drop-inn-virtual-rugby-pub

It's all me, me, me with you Notch.

"I hereby declare the winner in the most Ginger musical reg to...

Mrs P! Well done. Gibbo a close second."

Yeah, I know. To be fair this started as a tribute to MrsP. And I stand by that tribute!

prop_lyd wrote:Good work Glas!! Did you name drop v2 or me?!

No. But I did mention Wyn Derrick, the teacher who spotted Shane's talent at 10 years old. The other teachers thought he was too small.

Well I have a cold and am very sick so I'm off to bed. Lemsip is great though.

Thanks very much Glas...



I think?

You played rugby with a cold! You nutter! You can do serious damage to yourself like that.

A Shane Williams fact:

As a youngster he was frightened of bridges.

For anyone who didn't see the Leinster game the tries are on the Leinster website;

http://leinsterrugby.ie/mdtv/play/media/id/10109

It's really cool that rugby is broadcast in Irish now. Could not have imagined that fifty years ago! Thats changing the perception of the game, hopefully.

Always wanted to learn Irish, or Welsh, just never gotten round to it yet

I think I might get some rudimentary Irish lessons in the future; when you are a full-time PG student you do NOT relax by more elective studying. If I get a 9-5 I'll try and do it.

The Welsh speaking players have now adopted the terminology of rugby only invented in Welsh in the 70's when Welsh language radio started to cover rugby games and which received a massive boost with S4C in 1984. Those of us brought up with it find it perfectly natural, but older Welsh speakers still view the terms as contrived. Interestingly some of the terms are borrowed from military phraseology largely defunct in modern day Welsh. Limanwr (linesman) literally means flag bearer, scarmes (rucks) means skirmishes. The only words that have been really struggled with is gol which they gave up on and just dropped the e and cais which means to try but is all wrong gramatically.

So the Welsh rugby term for 'try' actually means 'to try'? As in- the concept of effort?

Yes. Crap isn't it. The English phrase came from "try for goal" that is, if you got the ball over the line it gave you a free kick for goal. It was only later the try itself was considered the pinnacle of achievement and awarded with points in it's own right. Until then you only got the points if you could kick the conversion.

Yeah, I had heard that before alright. And it makes sense.

It's a strange example of a word in one language suffering from being a direct translation from another. Just use the Welsh word for score and be done with it. Though 'Essai' is also a direct translation of try I suppose?

Surely the Welsh word is completly appropriate, no?

There's no Welsh word for score



That's why the soccer program is called "Scorio"

The problem is in Welsh you'd say 'go for goal' rather than 'trying for goal'

Some Rugby schoolboy thnking he was funny by coming up with an ungrammatical term on purpose, I don't know...

The advert says it would not be Christmas without M & S.

Spot on.

It would be Chrita.

Notch, Irish is a very difficult language to pick up if you don't start from a young age. TG4 used to show Celtic League until Setanta bought the rights but it's a lot more porfessional now. Their HC coverage is great ,the length of time they show it for is marvellous.

Rava wrote:Watched a bit of that Dreamer. Great occasion and some good rugby.
Great night with the Dublin lads, Gibbo and Stag. Some great laughs. Poor Mickado, he won't want anyone mentioning Mars Bars for a long time.
I do fear for Gibbo next weekend. Not sure he has the stamina for a three nighter

Are we talking in Marianne Faithful terms here, Rav?

Morning all, fancy dress in the village to raise money for local projects - I've never known a small village (<1,000) get so into it - bliwdy hilarious costumes.

I'd love to see it As. I can only imagine. Must be a very strong community there.

Is that the one where an atheist is taking the council on for saying prayers before meetings as it offends his human rights? I mean it's not as if they forced him to be a councilor or make him recite them naked at gunpoint. Ffs!

Is it true that Doug Howlett got injured yesterday and is going to miss the two matches against the Scarlets?


And bore da pawb/good morning all, hope everyone's well

Seems to be the case Dreamer. Another former footballer has died. Socrates of the Brazilian 1982 World Cup Team has died. That team are often said to be the finest not to win the World Cup

Unlucky for Howeltt if it's true, and a big blow for Munster, he's been your best player by far this season.


Sad news about the footballer too

morning guys

Really? I would have said Peter O'Mahony. No doubt Dougie has been top class as he always has been. How did he not start for NZ in 07?

afternoon,
hope that village party gets cleared away to leave space for next weekends pro-partiers,As

great results for ASM yesterday, despite missing out on the bonus;we beat 3rd place Castres, Paris didn't get a bonus, Toulon were beaten as were RM92.Agen could get into 4th place with a win today.the table

http://www.lequipe.fr/Rugby/top-14-classement.html

Off to the cafe de commerce to have lunch;venison stew made by , and then Agen/Bayonne on the big screen.

Afternoon all. Lunch sounds nice Mick.

I've just finished watching the Wales v Australia game, off out Xmas shopping shortly. Nice to see Shane end on a try.

RiskySports and I went to the Help for Heroes match at Twickenham yesterday, a great atmostphere and an entertaining match with the Southern Hem beating the North 45-31.

Thomond - from an outsider looking in, Howlett has been key for you. I know O'Mahoney has been playing very well, but Howlett is a class above.

Kiwi - it looked a fab match, from the 2nd half I saw anyway. Peter Edwards looked like he was loving playing out there!

Footage of the tigers saints scrap on YouTube courtesy of rugbydump.com

Has to be said Ashton very lucky boy and Tuilagi very unlucky. Also feel sorry for the ball boy who gets caught in the middle of it all. Bound to be a few more citings from that surely.

Here's the link to what willy's on about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0dcme2wCGBs#!

Chris Ashton- what was he at? Silly.

Surprised to see Murphy in there throwing haymakers! And there was Lawes and Wood throwing more punches than Tuilagi too. And I get the impression Ashton would be lucky Tuilagi was pulled away in the first place! What a palaver.

Who's Peter O Mahoney? Never heard of him. Is he from Cork? Ah ok, that explains it. A ligind in his own village.

Howlett is far and away Munster' s most crucial backs player. He gives them an x-factor when the chips are down. Lose him and they lose any semblence of an attacking option. Looks like the old up-de-jumper, pick and drive next week and leave it to ROG to kick to the corners.

I think this gives Scarlets the edge at PYS...

Out collecting for charity tonight and twice a week until Christmas. We are lucky enough to have persuaded Santa to come on our float as we go around. There's loudspeakers on the float blaring out Christmas songs. By the 23rd of December every year I could throttle Pariah Carey, Elton Pong and that blydi brass band! When the shops start playing those songs on haloween night I feel like vomiting.



Oh well, it's all in a good cause.

Not irresponsible of you to be taking up Santa's calendar with such trivial matters of charity at his busiest time of the year. How's he going to find time to sort out my pressies?

He's very clever.

P.S. You may just have pished on your chips young Willy. I'll have a word, tell him you're a good boy really

Ulstermen look out for each other Glas

Yeah, like, erm, Doc Holliday and Wyat Earp (before Doc Holliday died of TB)

I think I have just accidently bankrupt myself buying things I really couldn't do with out. Balls.

Just looked at that Tigers v Saints clip, can't see that Tuilagi even threw a punch, let alone several! Ashton is a man sausage.

No. No, no, no. Man sausages have an use (or two). Pulling a guy thats defenceless on the floor by his hair should carry a season ban at least. It crosses the line.

Wasn't there a similar incident in American Football recently where a player was tackled by his hair and it was not illegal?

I am not defending Ashton by the way, just remembering the incident.

I reckon Murphy at least will have questions to answer.

Glas a du wrote:It's all me, me, me with you Notch.

"I hereby declare the winner in the most Ginger musical reg to...

Mrs P! Well done. Gibbo a close second."

Im not a bloody Ginge! Im a greying strawberry-blonde.

And MrsP looks about 35. :lookingforcrawleybum-lickemoticon:

Tis just....why do it?

I saw Aaron Shingler on my shopping travels, the guy is TALL. Never really realised how big he is watching him on the teledu.

6 ft 6 in and 16st 10 according to his stats, Did he look that big ?

Gibbo!





Sad thing is that that cheeky young pup Prop probably feels vindicated now. At his age everything beyond 30 is Sooooooooo old that it doesn't matter whether you are ... ...just a couple of years past 30 like ....some of us, or many, many years past it like.... ... others.

Indeed he did Cymro.

How a ya folks

Hiya Hughie.

Hiya Dreamer and Gibbo and Glas and Thomond and Cari (I only just saw that it was you who posted the clip. THANKS!!!) And Rava and Rev (because they get upset if you leave them out!)

And anyone else who may have snuck in without me noticing!!

And Hiya Cymro.

Long time no see!

How a ya Hughie?