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 pictures of Chris Paterson, Steve Thompson and Jonny Wilkinson above the bar!


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



Old Pub: https://www.606v2.com/t20595p950-the-dew-drop-inn-virtual-rugby-pub#807868

Straight over the top of tango boy too...I'd like to see Earls score that one...

Oh Jeez when you put it like that Penfro...it should be 20 - 6.

Cricket, it is Welsh for cricket...

ah right cool fair enough

Halfpee kicking a penalty....not Din Parks. Good one too. 11 - 9.

Ryan Jones is looking like Bjorn Borg these days with his headband...

Another great kick from the former Ospreys U18 player

58mins - 11-9

Enter Mr Dan Bighead

Well Penfro he's a decent kicker and right now we need one who can get all the points we can get.

Wouldn't it be good if Henson could score a try on his return to the Library?

...and he misses his first kick!

Cari wrote:Well Penfro he's a decent kicker and right now we need one who can get all the points we can get.

Sorry ???

Mrs Penfro wrote:Wouldn't it be good if Henson could score a try on his return to the Library?

NO

Parks saves the day! The best overseas player in Wales??

Feicing great Din Perks kicks a ......... yes a blydi drop goal


68mins - 11-12

Evening all, had a nice dinner with some family there early on and my dad is out of hospital so good news all roud. Missed the Leinster game and the majority of the Blues one. So will switch over to that.

Drop goal schmoal...Biggar nails the penalty.

14 - 12.

All right Thom. Glad your da's out of the hospital.

O's finally manage to hit the cows ar$e with the banjo

72 mins - 14-12

Prediction 80:13 on the clock Din Perks drop goal wins it !!

Flip Henson blew it! Hes an Osprey at heart after all!....

Nooo Penfro...noooo!

Who's gonna be MOTM?

Can just see it happening Cari

Ryan has thrown himself into it
Henson has looked very good
Navidi showed well in the first half
However, Dr Gwyn is in the box so ....... Kahn Photoshop, or George Stowers or Xavier Rush, if you catch my drift

MOTM goes to Bjorn Jones.

Seren y Gem - Ryan 'Bjorn Borg' Jones

Actual very smart from Bighead there, asking how long to go (48 seconds) and he can take 1 min to take the kick

Nails it 17 - 12

FT 17 - 12 after a Biggar penalty. Pheeeooow, we needed that.

Right - SHERLOCK - catch you later

Poor old Pat. RIP

Rava - what's happened?

PenfroPete wrote:Actual very smart from Bighead there, asking how long to go (48 seconds) and he can take 1 min to take the kick

Nails it 17 - 12

No. Should have kicked to the corner. A try would have denied the Blurs a bonus points.

Eastenders Cari. Pat just passed away

And a turnover, could have resulted in a Blues win

What did he die of ?

Rava wrote:Eastenders Cari. Pat just passed away

Of course! I'm going to watch the repeat on BBC 3 later. I want to see her exit, it's supposed to be a good episode.

MrsP if you're about youse got mail.

Her ? was Pat a female now that does surprise me.

PenfroPete wrote:And a turnover, could have resulted in a Blues win

Yeah, because the Blues looked like running in tries from 100 yards all match.

Balls. It's what the SH have. What we need to have. If the Ospreys miss out on the playoffs by a point...

Notch wrote:Josh Navidi is the Blues 7. I'm thinking Irelands wings should be Fitzgerald and Trimble. Bowe is struggling a wee bit lately. I'm sure he'll bounce back but starting on the bench may be the motivation he needs!

+1

Rodders,
I have not been convinced, in any game Ive seen him play, that Ruddock is good enough for Leinster. Never mind Ireland. Connacht, Ulster or Munster for him. Dont take that wrong. It could be the making of him. He's young and a supposed leader. Its just that we have 6 internationals, fighting for 3 backrow spots. Something has got to give.

We don't take hand me downs Gibbo. Well Niall Ronan and Felix Jones excluded. Sure we hand you two Irish internationals who weren't good enough for us like.

Cari wrote:

Rava wrote:Eastenders Cari. Pat just passed away

Of course! I'm going to watch the repeat on BBC 3 later. I want to see her exit, it's supposed to be a good episode.

It was sad. I loved Pat. Specially her love-affair with Frank. They rocked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcxozHGN7-s

Thomond wrote:We don't take hand me downs Gibbo. Well Niall Ronan and Felix Jones excluded. Sure we hand you two Irish internationals who weren't good enough for us like.

And we made them Internationals.

We made Niall Ronan(I think he has a cap) an international and Jones. Although both only have one cap at the moment but Jones should definitely add to his total it would be a travesty if he didn't.

Oh my. Barrier Reef program on BEEB2 now. Been looking forward to this for ages. Oh man. The magic. The beauty. The wonder.

In a cockney accent: -

Pat, Pat, Pat, Pat, Pat

Thomond wrote:t Jones should definitely add to his total it would be a travesty if he didn't.

A more extreme version of this attitude has plagued Irish rugby for years. We go back to what we know. Tomas O'Leary simply is not the same player since his long injury in June 2009. Maybe David Wallace or Felix Jones won't be good enough to make it into the Munster team after their injury. Other people would start them for Ireland in a heart beat.

Lets see how he gets on after injury. It would be a shame if he couldn't get back to the level he was at, but if he isn't getting more caps then its not a travesty he simply isn't playing well enough.

BTW didn't want to start a thread on it as I could be wrong but this season Leo Cullen seems to be an absolute liability and is copping a serious amount of yellow cards. Not good for a captain.

Stag, of course it depends on how he returns from injury, It would be a travesty as injury would have robbed him of more caps. I'm not a tool like his return to form obviously matters like.

Gibson wrote:

Notch wrote:Josh Navidi is the Blues 7. I'm thinking Irelands wings should be Fitzgerald and Trimble. Bowe is struggling a wee bit lately. I'm sure he'll bounce back but starting on the bench may be the motivation he needs!

+1

Rodders,
I have not been convinced, in any game Ive seen him play, that Ruddock is good enough for Leinster. Never mind Ireland. Connacht, Ulster or Munster for him. Dont take that wrong. It could be the making of him. He's young and a supposed leader. Its just that we have 6 internationals, fighting for 3 backrow spots. Something has got to give.

Agree with the Trimble/Fitzgerald winger theory and also that Ruddock would do better to move to another team especially as he isn't from Dublin so could adapt to moving interprovincially easily. How would people feel about an Irish backline of:

09 Murray
10 Sexton
11 Fitzgerald
12 Darcy
13 McFadden
14 Trimble
15 Kearney

20 Reddan
21 O'Gara
22 Earls

and Ruddock moving to Munster which would really boost Munsters potential backrow stock. Ulster have Ferris and IMO he is too good for Connacht.

Agree Stag. Don't know why because there hasn't been an awful lot of pressure. Maybe he is showing his age.

I don't really want mcFadden or D'Arcy in the team. Griffen has been the best 13 in Ireland. McFadden 12 with Griffen or O'Malley at 13.

Thomond wrote:Stag, of course it depends on how he returns from injury, It would be a travesty as injury would have robbed him of more caps. I'm not a tool like his return to form obviously matters like.

As I said it is a more extreme version of things that is the plague. That certain players are owed caps due to past deeds. I understand your not saying that.

It may sound harsh but overcoming injury is part of a players job description. O'Driscoll have been crocked a number of times and simply kept on going reinventing himself as needed. It is always hard to deal with injury but thats part and parcel of things.

Thomond I can't believe you want Griffin in the starting team on the back of half a dozen Pro 12 games?

Thomond wrote:I don't really want mcFadden or D'Arcy in the team. Griffen has been the best 13 in Ireland. McFadden 12 with Griffen or O'Malley at 13.

There is genuinely not a chance in a bajillion years that Eoin Griffin has:

a - done enough to warrant inclusion for Ireland
b - that he will get picked for this 6 Nations

He is at a minimum behind (in no real order): Brian O'Driscoll, Keith Earls, Fergus McFadden, Darren Cave, Eoin O'Malley, Tommy Bowe, Nevin Spence. Arguably Gavin Duffy, Danny Barnes and Andrew Trimble would get a shot at 13 ahead of him.