The Dew Drop Inn Virtual Rugby Pub

by Pete C (Kiwireddevil) Wed 14 Dec 2011, 10:14 pm

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 wedding pictures of Dan Carter and Honor Dillon above the bar! And if anyone tells the Australian Womens' Weekly that KiwiRedDevil's Mum smuggled a camera into the service* there'll be hell to pay - they paid a fair amount for the exclusive Wink

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

Ale

Old Pub: https://www.606v2.com/t19779-the-dew-drop-inn-virtual-rugby-pub#757023

* Note to any lawyer-y types, that's a joke and is completely and utterly false, Mum forgot to put the camera in her handbag

by Thomond Sat 17 Dec 2011, 8:10 pm

Why, Glas? Keatley has played in the centres before he just needs more game time there, I think he could be a good 2nd 5/8th. Sure why not throw Marshall in there if we're looking for young guys! Also is Gilroy still technically in the Ulster academy? He is still listed there on the site.

by **Notch** Sat 17 Dec 2011, 8:11 pm

He's not, I think. He's on a full contract now (I think).

by Glas a du Sat 17 Dec 2011, 8:15 pm

Because if you want a ROG type and a Sexton type to cover 10 and 12 go for ROG and Sexton. McFadden is a second 15/33.

by MrsP Sat 17 Dec 2011, 8:15 pm

And we did it away from home!

by Glas a du Sat 17 Dec 2011, 8:16 pm

Which one of the five are you talking about?

by MrsP Sat 17 Dec 2011, 8:23 pm

Glas

Thomond,

Gilroy is not in the Academy this season.

Here's the list.

Phoenix Ulster Academy Squad 2011-12

Neil Faloon (Armagh)
Chris Farrell (Dungannon)
Ryan Jablinski (Instonians)
Conor Joyce (Malone)
Johnny Murphy (Banbridge)
Peter Nelson (Dungannon)
Sean O'Connell (Instonians)
Stuart Olding (Belfast Harlequins)
David O'Mahony (TBA)
James Simpson (Ballynahinch)
Ali Birch (Dungannon)
Conor Carey (Ballymena)
Ian Henderson (QUB)
Kyle McCall (Ballynahinch)
David McGuigan (Ballynahinch)
Blane McIlroy (Ballymena)
Michael Allen (Belfast Harlequins)
Ricky Andrew (Ballymena)
John Burns (Ballymena)
Chris Cochrane (Dungannon)
Conor Gaston (Dungannon)

by Thomond Sat 17 Dec 2011, 8:25 pm

MrsP, he is listed there here: http://www.ulsterrugby.com/rugby/academy_squad.php

by **Notch** Sat 17 Dec 2011, 8:27 pm

Speaking of the Academy, Ulster Ravens have had two great wins in the British and Irish Cup and are in the last eight.

Peter Nelson, fullback- remember the name. 3 tries against good opposition in the last two games and he's just out of school.

by **Notch** Sat 17 Dec 2011, 8:27 pm

Thomond wrote:MrsP, he is listed there here: http://www.ulsterrugby.com/rugby/academy_squad.php

Thats last years squad. MrsP posted this years squad.

by Glas a du Sat 17 Dec 2011, 8:31 pm

Glas

I thought you were talking about getting your kids... Run

by Thomond Sat 17 Dec 2011, 8:33 pm

Fair enough,It was the most recent one I found on the Ulster site. Apologies. Notch, I have heard of him. Sounds like a good prospect and he is the most ginger kid alive from what I remember. Is staying up till 4am watching a match insane? I don't think I should do it.

by MrsP Sat 17 Dec 2011, 8:36 pm

by **Notch** Sat 17 Dec 2011, 8:36 pm

Do it!

He is ridiculously ginger. We need gingers in high places to advance our cause. We infiltrate all sectors of society- Business, Politics, the Arts, Sport, the media- then we strike. Quickly and without mercy.

But until that bloody day dawns, he will be a good player for us I think

by Thomond Sat 17 Dec 2011, 8:39 pm

I might have a ticket offer for the munster game yet so if I do, I would be well and truely flahed. It's only an NFL game sure and the team I support have lost 7 games in a row!

by Glas a du Sat 17 Dec 2011, 8:39 pm

This Ewe made 11000gns in Ballymena today (£11550.00)

by MrsP Sat 17 Dec 2011, 8:42 pm

What did it do to earn that in Ballymena????

I tell you, Ballymena folk are not easily parted from their money!

by Glas a du Sat 17 Dec 2011, 8:45 pm

I don't know, but it was enough to make one of them buy her for that!

by **Notch** Sat 17 Dec 2011, 8:45 pm

Imagine what it could have earned anywhere else!

by **Notch** Sat 17 Dec 2011, 8:45 pm

HA! Snap MrsP Smile

by Glas a du Sat 17 Dec 2011, 8:48 pm

Don't tell me, the rich people live in Ballymoney

drumroll

by MrsP Sat 17 Dec 2011, 8:51 pm

I thought farmers were all skint?

That is assuming it was a farmer that bought it.

Whistle

by Glas a du Sat 17 Dec 2011, 8:59 pm

Farmers are always skint - asset rich, cash poor. Lots of pedigree breeders are part timers like me, but plenty rely on it for a living Yikes

by MrsP Sat 17 Dec 2011, 9:05 pm

I was only messing Glas.

So, would you explain why this ewe was so expensive?

Will she have more lambs that are sold to eat or will she produce more milk or wool than the other ewes?

by **Notch** Sat 17 Dec 2011, 9:17 pm

Extended highlights starting on TG4 now- Ulster, Connacht and Leinster get an hour each. Ulster up first!

by **Notch** Sat 17 Dec 2011, 9:17 pm

I wish I spoke Irish, I should learn Irish.

by Hound_of_Harrow Sat 17 Dec 2011, 9:23 pm

I bought a new lambswool jumper on Wed. Proper tidy it is

Didn't cost G11,000 though Whistle

And Ealing were pipped at the last 22-23 by Rosslyn Park. Better team won a cracking game on the day. But a very good crowd turned up and record takings over the bar I would reckon.

by **rodders** Sat 17 Dec 2011, 9:28 pm

Notch wrote:I wish I spoke Irish, I should learn Irish.

Feck me too Notch...wish I could watch it but the GF and outlaws are watching celebrity come Icedancing.... censored

Great day for Irish rugby today guinness

by Thomond Sat 17 Dec 2011, 9:39 pm

Notch/Rodders, it is one of the most difficult languages to learn if you don't learn it as a kid. I was lucky and went to a Gaelscoil. It's a beautiful language and if you learned anything from those old Carlsberg adverts it works with women! (also Irish celebrities with Irish names tend to be good looking)

by **Notch** Sat 17 Dec 2011, 9:41 pm

I don't want or need to be fluent- in fact I won't be as opportunities to speak it are limited. Just learn a little bit.

by Thomond Sat 17 Dec 2011, 9:41 pm

Notch, they have a section on their website on key words for rugby as Gaeilge. Here it is: http://www.tg4.ie/en/programmes/rugby-on-tg4/dictionary.html

by **Notch** Sat 17 Dec 2011, 9:43 pm

In like flynn. I'll get me mate Conor from the Donegal Gaeltacht to give me a hand with that. It'll help me break years of GAA conditioning and turn him to the rugby cause as well thumbsup

by Thomond Sat 17 Dec 2011, 9:45 pm

Notch, I could give you a hand with pronounciation. If you're stuck, drop us a PM. It is an interesting language a bit like German.

by **rodders** Sat 17 Dec 2011, 9:47 pm

Thomond I'm not that far from donegal gaeltacht, I will make an effort to learn a little and it is a beautiful language...I have to balance it with learning some Ulster scots though.... Very Happy

by **Notch** Sat 17 Dec 2011, 9:51 pm

God I'd love it if we could join up with Germany- they could run everything in the North, it would be great. Bloody get rid of the UK and the Tories and into the welcoming arms of the Motherland.

I mean, they practically own the rest of Ireland now right? Why not complete the set. The way things are going we could have a united Ireland under a German flag.

Tiochfaidh àr là- Deutschland uber alles!

by Thomond Sat 17 Dec 2011, 9:53 pm

Rodders, you learn Irish you will understand a bit of that. I understand a bit of what they're talking about on BBC Alba which is Scots Gallic I think.

by **rodders** Sat 17 Dec 2011, 9:54 pm

That would work for me Notch!

by **Notch** Sat 17 Dec 2011, 9:55 pm

That's Scots Gaelic which is different from Scots (Lallans). Ulster Scots is in all honesty a dialect of Lallans (Ullans).

by **rodders** Sat 17 Dec 2011, 9:57 pm

Thomond...you realise I was joking about the Ulster scots thing... Whistle

??

Do many people speak Irish your way?

by MrsP Sat 17 Dec 2011, 9:58 pm

Ulster Scots is just English with a Ballymena accent!

by **rodders** Sat 17 Dec 2011, 10:00 pm

Mrs P..Rava might be listening...... Very Happy

...hey good day for Ulster today..

Is anyone going to the Munster game on the 30th?

by **Notch** Sat 17 Dec 2011, 10:00 pm

No Scots is a real language.

What they've done in making up Ulster Scots is taken all the Scots words still in common use then filled in the gaps with makey-uppy words because there isnae enough still spaken in Ulster to make a full, varied vocabulary.

by Thomond Sat 17 Dec 2011, 10:01 pm

You mean Cork City? Not really, I would know a fair few but a lot of my family speak it and seeing as a lot of people I would be friendly with went to the Gaelscoil and same secondary school as me I would know a few but it's not widely spoken. My grandad was well known for being a Gaelgeoir and a GAA man though

by MrsP Sat 17 Dec 2011, 10:02 pm

I was just thinking the same thing Rodders!

If he appears, you haven't seen me!

Run

by **rodders** Sat 17 Dec 2011, 10:06 pm

It's a pity the irish language is such a political hot potato up here... I mean all this fuss over the Xmas sign at the the belfast town hall FFS censored

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by **rodders** Sat 17 Dec 2011, 10:07 pm

MrsP wrote:I was just thinking the same thing Rodders!

If he appears, you haven't seen me!

by **Notch** Sat 17 Dec 2011, 10:07 pm

I know, ridiculous.

Just watching the highlights on TG4- we had five front row forwards on the pitch at the end and we scored our best team try of the season at the end. Don't get any ideas McLaughs!

by **rodders** Sat 17 Dec 2011, 10:09 pm

Just on TG4 now..whats Irish for Ferris is awesome... Very Happy

by Dave. Sat 17 Dec 2011, 10:11 pm

MrsP wrote:Ulster Scots is just English with a Ballymena accent!

My thoughts entirely, Mrs P. Ladies with Ballymena accents however = HOT!

by Thomond Sat 17 Dec 2011, 10:13 pm

Is imreoir den scoth é Ferris. Tá sé chomh láidir le tarbh.

by MrsP Sat 17 Dec 2011, 10:14 pm

Really Dave??

Rodder,

The new Irish word for awesome is FERRIS!!!

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