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.

This is the first Pub of 606v2's second year, here's hoping for another good one.

The only rule in this pub is one of mutual respect for everyone in it, oh and no defacing the pictures of Augustin Pichot, David Campese, Mal O'Kelly and Jim Williams above the bar!



Last Pub: https://www.606v2.com/t22310p950-the-dew-drop-inn-virtual-rugby-pub#893262

He certainly is a scoundrel, Dreamer.

But what does Shovey Lovey mean?

Quite right, too:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-16742365

Nothing Lucky, twas a nickname one of my Uncles gave me when I was about 4. I hated it. I mean well and truly absolutely hated it. My mam still dusts off the name when she wants to annoy me.

Its weird, you guys using it doesn't bother me too much as you've only just started doing it, but some of my family have used it as a means to annoy me for 20 years, so they only have to say it once and I'm

rugbydreamer wrote:Its weird, you guys using it doesn't bother me too much as you've only just started doing it, but some of my family have used it as a means to annoy me for 20 years, so they only have to say it once and I'm

Reverse psychology wont work on us Shoveylovey.

Anyway I must dash for a bit. "Shove on your knickers your mothers coming"

why you little .... !

and keep running!

If I wasn't such a good admin, I'd totally edit that post. Bah.

rugbydreamer wrote:Nothing Lucky, twas a nickname one of my Uncles gave me when I was about 4. I hated it. I mean well and truly absolutely hated it. My mam still dusts off the name when she wants to annoy me.

Its weird, you guys using it doesn't bother me too much as you've only just started doing it, but some of my family have used it as a means to annoy me for 20 years, so they only have to say it once and I'm

That might be because we're using it affectionately Dreamer. Well, aside from Stag that is

Ha! Possibly, but my family didnt start out using it to anoy me, I just really didn't like it. I had big issues with my name growing up (coz no one could say/spell it) Like one of the dad's in the village used to call me Joan (which is my name in English). I never used to like that either.

Right, it's going to be Joan from now on.

Is that the English version of your name?
It’s a fairly common name over here, spoke to a person of that name today in fact.

Well start calling you Siwan.

Hey Glas, remember you saw a pic of my nephew Fionn and thought it was a girls name. What name were you confusing it with? Is Ffion a Welsh name or did I make it up. how do you pronounce it?

Indeed it is Mick, or well, as far as I've ever been aware anyways.

Tis Siwan in Welsh.


Lucky - call me that if you like! that one's not bothered me for years

Ffion is a Welsh girls name, pronounced fee-on

Well you learn all sorts of things in the pub dont you

Ah, that’s quite close to Fionn then which is more like Fee-un.

LATEST UPDATE ON MAM - PHYSIO SESSION

DREAMER - is SHE your hero then ?

There's an easy way of remembering how F and Ff are pronounced in Welsh:

F - as in 'of;'

Ff - as in 'off.'

If Joan of Arc
Had a heart
Would she give it as a gift
To such as me

Who longs to see
How an agnel ought to be
Her dream's to give
Her heart away

Like an orphan on a wave
She cared so much
She offered up
Her body to the grave

Welsh is a lanuage that has always amazed me. I like the sound of it even if i dont understand a word of it

ha yeah I cant help but read Carr's name the Welsh way, so I'm always pronouncing it Vee-on.

Penfro - no, not quite!

That's it Fee-on.

I like it Luckless, a bit like

Mickado – as in “do”
Mikado – as in “don’t”

Or

Marsbar - don't start that again

Save it for Dublin Glas. Actually you'll be having a few beers at the scene of the crime.

It'll be a crime scene if you try to get any more milage out of it!

To be fair Mick we haven't mentioned it in AGES!!

And the S in Mars Bar is pronounced like a Z, otherwise it would sound more like 'M@rse Bar.'

red_stag wrote:To be fair Mick we haven't mentioned it in AGES!!

True. Quite surprising after the campaign by certain individuals at the big meet pre-xmas to have me change Mickado's username to Marsado

Mickado wrote:I like it Luckless, a bit like

Mickado – as in “do”
Mikado – as in “don’t”

I didn't know that until the Tour of Four and I heard someone say your 'name.' I thought it was pronounced like Mikado's pronounced.

Yeah Luckless i suspect most people pronounced it like that. It's all good though!

Kiwi, I wonder who that was...

Hughie

Okay, now I'm excited about the game:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/16742760.stm

Mickado wrote:It'll be a crime scene if you try to get any more milage out of it!

luckless_pedestrian wrote:Okay, now I'm excited about the game:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/16742760.stm

Desperate to watch it myself

Wolfhounds team:

15 - Gavin Duffy (Galwegians/Connacht)
14 - David Kearney (Lansdowne/Leinster) *
13 - Eoin O'Malley (Old Belvedere/Leinster) *
12 - Nevin Spence (Ballynahinch/Ulster) *
11 - Simon Zebo (Cork Constitution/Munster)*
10 - Ian Keatley (Young Munster/Munster)
9 - Isaac Boss (Terenure College/Leinster)
1 - Brett Wilkinson (Galwegians/Connacht)*
2 - Damien Varley (Garryowen/Munster)
3 - Stephen Archer (Cork Constitution/Munster) *
4 - Dan Tuohy (Ballymena/Ulster)
5 - Mike McCarthy (Buccaneers/Connacht)
6 - John Muldoon (Galwegians/Connacht)
7 - Chris Henry (Ballymena/Ulster) Captain
8 - Rhys Ruddock (St. Mary's College/Leinster)

Replacements:
16 - Mike Sherry (Garryowen/Munster)*
17 - Ronan Loughney (Galwegians/Connacht)*
18 - Devin Toner (Lansdowne/Leinster)
19 - Kevin McLaughlin (St. Mary's College/Leinster)
20 - Tomas O'Leary (Dolphin/Munster)
21 - Ian Madigan (Blackrock College/Leinster)*
22 - Denis Hurley (Cork Constitution/Munster)

Im happy over all. Would have liked to seen Peter O'Mahony and Paul Marshall in the squad.

Accuse me of bias if you will but I think Madigan has been playing better than Keatley this season.

Man, I'm going to get soaked on the way home.

September-November I would have said Keatley but Madigan has been the better player recently thats a given.

I suppose Madigans poor kicking ability and Keatleys greater experience were factors.

Glas,
Brive is a fion to get to

Try :
http://www.aeroportlimoges.com/passagers/vols_reguliers/destinations_directes/89-destinations_directes.php

http://www.bergerac.aeroport.fr/

http://www.aeroport-brive-vallee-dordogne.com/en/flights/london-city-airport-cityjet.html

Madigan is playing better but not kicking at goal. No sweat if McFadden is playing alongside him. It's why we were saying it would be better for him to take the kicks.

Not so much for Leinster, but for his own benefit.

Mick(TEFC) wrote:Glas,
Brive is a fion to get to

Try :
http://www.aeroportlimoges.com/passagers/vols_reguliers/destinations_directes/89-destinations_directes.php

http://www.bergerac.aeroport.fr/

http://www.aeroport-brive-vallee-dordogne.com/en/flights/london-city-airport-cityjet.html

Es que il y a une Gare SNCF au Brive Chief?

Yeah true, it never occured to me actually.

From what i've seen he's a good kicker, seems to have an orthodox routine and in practise he strikes them well. I presume his stats just aren't good enough yet. Joe will get him up to speed soon. He's put his trust in Madigan this season, and Madigan is delivering, just not quite there yet.

Unless he can become a top class goal kicker he won't feature internationally.

There’s nothing to suggest that he won’t.

But I’d like to see the kicking percentages for McFadden, Nacewa and Sexton this season. I’d say they’re all 90% plus. Think McFadden has missed 2 all season and he’s taken well over 20.

In fact Madigan has, by all accounts, a bigger range than any of them. nailed one from the half way line against Connacht this season.

Of course not Mick he could of course do it.

But he is stuck behind Nacwa Sexton and McFadden as you say. The more I practice the luckier I get. . .

trying to figure out how to get to Brive is far more complicated then it should be.

Sunday @ 8.15pm!!!! Do the French run the ERC or something? Couldn't they have compromised a bit. How on earth will the Scarlets fans find the ground if they've been out all day?

I know, that's what I was thinking!

Well if we all manage to find it, at least you can guarantee we'll be in very good voice!

From what I can see the flights to Toulouse aren't a problem, it's trying to match them up with cheap train times to get from there to Brive that's the issue.

I don't know anything about French trains. When we go to Italy we use the trains a lot, but book them from a UK website. PM Penfro to ask him which website he uses, they might do French train tickets as well. It might be worth finding out whether the Scarlets themselves are running anything to get out there.