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 pictures of John Hayes, Craig Gilroy,
Niall O'Connor, Ben Skirving and Jonny May above the bar!




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After the way Ulster pumped the Tigers, I doubt Sarries will look forward to meeting them in the semis.

hughie1986 wrote:Jasus Ulster beat a poor Leicester side and they think they can take on the world. Do you honestly think that you can go to TP in a heineken cup knock out game and get a result??? Cop yourselves on would ya???

See that Dreamer? It's not just the Welsh he has it in for.

He drank de soup. I pretended. Still have in a plastic bag. May need it someday...

Sarries will be facing the mighty Leinster, Hughie's second team.

Ulster have a home semi against Edinburgh.

Where's me coat?

Oh Id so love it if Ulster took Munster loike we did in 2009.

Then, they could really say they are the 2nd best province in Ireland.

A Changing Of The Provincial Lower-guard methinks?

It's how it is, I'd be willing to bet twenty of the queens finest pounds with every Ulster fan on here that they will not beat munster.

PJHolybloke wrote:Where's me coat?

And here's yer hat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFabjc6mFk4

From what I've seen the Ulster lads will be having their feet up a bit during the 6N won't they?

That could give them the edge.....

hughie1986 wrote:It's how it is, I'd be willing to bet twenty of the queens finest pounds with every Ulster fan on here that they will not beat munster.

There goes a years pay-rise.

Would you Irish guys and gals get more satisfaction beating one of the other provinces in the final or would you prefer it to be a non Irish side in the final with you ?

Is Hughie being a Munster or Leinster fan this week?

Actually, I thought he was a Chiefs fan now no???

Cracking weekend of rugby action. Pleased for Edinburgh, they played the best rugby in our pool and deserved to get the home quarter.

Just watched Les Mis at 25 on BBC 4. Love that show, have seen it in the theatre about 6 times. Love musicals.

How is everyone this fine Sunday evening anyway?

PJHolybloke wrote:From what I've seen the Ulster lads will be having their feet up a bit during the 6N won't they?

That could give them the edge.....

PJ. Have ya got any Irish in ya atall? Must have.

2 Irish sides in the final. That way Connacht get back in the HC.

Gibson wrote:

PJHolybloke wrote:Where's me coat?

And here's yer hat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFabjc6mFk4

I need the cane too, me aud knees are bitchin again.

Everyone wants to see a Leinster v munster final even the Ulster lads,

Gibson wrote:

PJHolybloke wrote:From what I've seen the Ulster lads will be having their feet up a bit during the 6N won't they?

That could give them the edge.....

PJ. Have ya got any Irish in ya atall? Must have.

You know I have Gibbo, an before you ask, no I don't need any more I'm good as it is ta.

hughie1986 wrote:It's how it is, I'd be willing to bet twenty of the queens finest pounds with every Ulster fan on here that they will not beat munster.

I don't want your money. Your pride and dignity will be more than sufficient.

But that is you in the video isn't it Gibbo?

You looked good even in 1946!

Cymro,

I don't know about more satisfaction but I would want 2 Irish teams in the Final everytime.

MrsP wrote:But that is you in the video isn't it Gibbo?

You looked good even in 1946!

Has anyone got a saucer of cream for MrsP?

Can't wait for the banter in 2 months time when it is this good now! Any South African restaurants/bars in Limerick? We have a SA chipper in Cork....

Aye T they will have to stock up on Biltong in limerick for April

Soup PJ.

Not cream.

Ozzy3213 wrote:Is Hughie being a Munster or Leinster fan this week?

Actually, I thought he was a Chiefs fan now no???

Cracking weekend of rugby action. Pleased for Edinburgh, they played the best rugby in our pool and deserved to get the home quarter.

Just watched Les Mis at 25 on BBC 4. Love that show, have seen it in the theatre about 6 times. Love musicals.

How is everyone this fine Sunday evening anyway?

evening Ozzy, yep Edinburgh were good value - Scored plenty of tries and were very entertaining throughout. The away game against Racing was pure theatre for me - Les Mis not withstanding of course.

PJHolybloke wrote:

Gibson wrote:

PJHolybloke wrote:From what I've seen the Ulster lads will be having their feet up a bit during the 6N won't they?

That could give them the edge.....

PJ. Have ya got any Irish in ya atall? Must have.

You know I have Gibbo, an before you ask, no I don't need any more I'm good as it is ta.

Bollix to it anyway.

MrsP wrote:Soup PJ.

Not cream.

Did anyone ever tell you, you've a wonderful way with words there MrsP.

WillyGilly wrote:

hughie1986 wrote:It's how it is, I'd be willing to bet twenty of the queens finest pounds with every Ulster fan on here that they will not beat munster.

I don't want your money. Your pride and dignity will be more than sufficient.

Class move by Willser.

I don't think Hugh has much dignity left.......

The 2 and a bit months is a very long time to wait. So many things can happen to players between now and April. The banter in here will reach fever pitch by then.

Just a suggestion... but if the HEC is the best comp in the world then why don't they get it over and done with in the next few weeks and push out the 6N to start in say mid Feb?

Just seems odd to have such a long time in between drinks.

Metro certainly provided entertainment PJ.

Gutted that's it for the Heino action until April, and I am now completely unashamedly jumping on the Ulster bandwagon and backing them to storm Thomond and knock Munster out.

SUFTUM

The European rugby season was designed with women in mind Linebreaker.

Multitasking.

MrsP wrote:Soup PJ.

Not cream.

She's lovely. But cruel at the same time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZfqIEWz4hg

Good man yerself Ozzy.

Sure you're UQ through a granny or something already!

Ulster have plenty of experience picking up foreigners and making them their own Pete/Ozzy (Pozzy?)

Linebreaker wrote:The 2 and a bit months is a very long time to wait. So many things can happen to players between now and April. The banter in here will reach fever pitch by then.

Just a suggestion... but if the HEC is the best comp in the world then why don't they get it over and done with in the next few weeks and push out the 6N to start in say mid Feb?

Just seems odd to have such a long time in between drinks.

Breaker. It does interrupt it. Anyone on a roll and who have qualified well, just before the 6-N, have to get that roll going again after it.
Some, with players missing after it all.

I think that's yet another test, which makes the HC so great. I love its format and its timing. Just my opinion.

I'm off up the wooden hills to me cot.

Pished.com

PJHolybloke wrote:I'm off up the wooden hills to me cot.

Pished.com

Ahaaa! Pledge gone.

Tank feic for that.

Slaap lekker Bath Man.

Maternal grandmother from Enniskillen. If it's good enough for Thomas the Tank to play for England then it's good enough for me.

I did notice them good old Irish names BJ O'Botha, Lifeimi McMafi in the Munster side as well T.

I posted on here earlier about combining the best of the four provinces games in the HEC over the passed few weeks for Ireland in the 6Ns and we would probably win the GS (performances of Connacht v Quins; Ulster v Tigers; Leinster v Bath; Saints v Munster).

What I want from Ireland is Connacht's tackle rate. Random thought occurred to me this morning and I have just been and looked at the Connacht Quins stats here
http://www.espnscrum.com/heineken-cup-2011-12/rugby/match/144342.html

Connacht made 159 tackles of which three were missed. That is a shade under two tackles per minute given an 80 minute game. But …

There were 7 kicks at goal taken which used up to 7 minutes
18 scrums, let’s say 1 minute each – 18 minutes
22 lineouts, let’s say 30 secs each – 11 minutes
5 restarts (after scores) at, say, 1 minute each – 5 minutes.

This would give a grand total of 41 minutes of clock time in which the teams were not “playing” and therefore no tackles could be made. This brings the Connacht tackle rate up to 4 a minute or one every 15 seconds.

If all Irish teams tackled at that rate, we'd win everything (except the Amlin cause we have no team in that or the AP 'cause we have to let the English win something ...)

Cymroglan wrote:Would you Irish guys and gals get more satisfaction beating one of the other provinces in the final or would you prefer it to be a non Irish side in the final with you ?

I want Toulouse or ASM.

The rest, we'd overrun. Not much of a Final.

We made some of our foreigners what they are though, i.e Mafi/Halstead/Payne etc. A lot of people seem to think Zebo is foreign too but he is as Cork as they come. Thick Cork accent on him.

You mis-spelled "To lose" there buddy!

Yeah Gibbo - makes the eventual winner even more special I suppose.

Mrs P - thanks for the night shirt. I slept wonderfully.
(so what are these multi-tasks you mention which are so important that the rugby has to be put on the back-burner for a few months? Start of school term, marching season, complete your wall-sized SUFTUM tapestries, etc?)

Ozzy3213 wrote:Maternal grandmother from Enniskillen. If it's good enough for Thomas the Tank to play for England then it's good enough for me.

I did notice them good old Irish names BJ O'Botha, Lifeimi McMafi in the Munster side as well T.

Touche Ozzy!

We have to have few like. Isa being the only one we really need. But, we are very big into Equal Opportunidees for foreigners at Leinstuuur. Oh yes.

But Ulster & Munster are takin de pish. In fairness. Be nice to see a real Irish team win it eh?

Thomond wrote:We made some of our foreigners what they are though, i.e Mafi/Halstead/Payne etc. A lot of people seem to think Zebo is foreign too but he is as Cork as they come. Thick Cork accent on him.

No, Thom. I just watched his interview on Sky - understood every word of it, and not having been to Cork for nearly three years now ( ) my ear is most definitely not in tune.

MrsP wrote:The European rugby season was designed with women in mind Linebreaker.

Multitasking.

I have had this conversation with the wife it seems she cant multitask while having a headache.

I mean a bit of HEC and then a bit more Pro12 with a touch of 6Ns.

All in the air at once.

You won't get it though. Limited by only having one X.

The 08 Munster team was the real Irish team. 13 Irish men starting. Kia, I suppose it's thickest you'd see for a guy who went to Pres.

How about that 16-year old Dutch girl, who just sailed around the World - on her own? Unreal. What guts and drive. Dutch Govt tried to stop her.But she won.

Thomond wrote:We made some of our foreigners what they are though, i.e Mafi/Halstead/Payne etc. A lot of people seem to think Zebo is foreign too but he is as Cork as they come. Thick Cork accent on him.

I met a Chinese girl in Glasgow a few years ago. Thick Scottish accent on her. She was still Chinese though!

Ozzy3213 wrote:Maternal grandmother from Enniskillen. If it's good enough for Thomas the Tank to play for England then it's good enough for me.

I did notice them good old Irish names BJ O'Botha, Lifeimi McMafi in the Munster side as well T.

Me too, maternal great GP's from Enniskillen. They shipped out to Canterbury in 1865. Have the letters they wrote back home to their families in Ireland telling them to hang tight for a while... see how things pan out. They did pretty well in NZ of course!