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 Jonathan Davies (JD2), and all of the weekend's 6 Nations debutants above the bar!





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That's a very succinct summary Hound, and I won't argue with any of it I don't think

The one thing that amazed me was how the Irish stood off Rhys Priestland more so than the others, that resulted in him half breaking the line 3 times in those last couple of minutes as Wales were working their way up the field, and getting in behind the Irish defence. I couldn't believe it!

I just don't think Ireland were as dreadful as some people are making out for the whole match is all. I mean they were still winning with 10 mins to go so they can't have been all that bad, as I don't think Wales were playing badly either.

And yep we did take most of our chances, although not enough for my liking. I was genuinely convinced that missed kicks were going to see us lose yet another match by 1 point again until 1/2p slotted that last one. Not sure I could have stomached that.

Capello quits the same day our 'arry gets cleared of all charges. Coincidence? I think not.

Cymroglan wrote:

Notch wrote:Fabio Capello has resigned as manager of Englands football team.

Because of the Captain fiasco ?

Yep. What a farce the whole thing is. I don't know if Terry is guilty or innocent but he can't be selected in the same squad as the brother of the man he is accused of racially abusing, and he certainly can't lead that squad, without compromising the unity of the group.

It's not about racism or whatever, those are issues for the trial. It's about building team spirit. I don't see how some English footballers are even going to be on speaking terms until the trial is over. How can you build a winning team with that hanging over you?

They've handled it shockingly badly.

rugbydreamer wrote:I just don't think Ireland were as dreadful as some people are making out for the whole match is all. I mean they were still winning with 10 mins to go so they can't have been all that bad, as I don't think Wales were playing badly either.

Well thats the thing dreamer- if we were dreadful I would be a lot less inclined to criticise. Ultimately if you're beaten by a much better team, there's just a gulf in class, no tactics will save you.

What people can't stomach is while Wales were probably the better side, we played stupid rugby at times. We made stupid decisions tactically that may well have cost us the game. Our performance proved that we can match any side in the Six Nations, the decisions we made at key times and the tactics we tried to implement showed why we will never realise our potential as a side unless changes are made.

ha yeah but Notch, your last paragraph could equally have applied to Wales, especially in the first half, where you could argue we were playing the better rugby but still went in trailing.

That's how close this match was. It's such, such fine lines at this level.

Aye, but if you want to be amongst the top three/four teams in the world you can't afford any margin for error- especially if you don't have an O'Driscoll or a McCaw or a Carter to dig you out.

Hound_of_Harrow wrote:lucky - it was also an era when I could have cheerfully decked a few of the condescending England fans who used to rock up at bandwagon Twickenham.

The "Oh Wilko was splendid today" brigade.

"Yes, shame the Welsh/Irish/Scots couldn't give our lads a decent game, what".

I heard loads of 2ats like that, who had never been near a club game in their life.

Dere 'ma

Hound_of_Harrow wrote:Ah, lucky. The chats I've had with Welsh rugby fans down the years. You've had the talent, but by Christ the players took an age (Gatland + Edwards) to discover fitness and conditioning.

How the feck did the 2005 Slam happen? Actually my theory was a whole load of peed off Celtic Warriors players with a point to prove.

The man's a rugby philosopher!

Notch wrote:Aye, but if you want to be amongst the top three/four teams in the world you can't afford any margin for error- especially if you don't have an O'Driscoll or a McCaw or a Carter to dig you out.

true but again, Wales were walking a very, very fine line of losing yet another match by 1 point. That would have been SA, France and Ireland then that we'd have lost to! There is always a margin for error in international rugby, not a big one, but it's there. Sometimes, it comes down to a smidgen of luck on the day. Then again, I guess you can say teams make their own luck. I dunno.

I just thought both sides were very, very evenly matched, and that's why it made the game so good.

My flat mate, whilst he's Welsh, had very rarely watched any rugby until he moved in with me, and he watched the game on Sunday and said it's one of the best that he's ever seen, so the rugby from both sides really couldn't have been as bad as some people are making out

Notch wrote:

Cymroglan wrote:

Notch wrote:Fabio Capello has resigned as manager of Englands football team.

Because of the Captain fiasco ?

Yep. What a farce the whole thing is. I don't know if Terry is guilty or innocent but he can't be selected in the same squad as the brother of the man he is accused of racially abusing, and he certainly can't lead that squad, without compromising the unity of the group.

It's not about racism or whatever, those are issues for the trial. It's about building team spirit. I don't see how some English footballers are even going to be on speaking terms until the trial is over. How can you build a winning team with that hanging over you?

They've handled it shockingly badly.

I find myself in TOTAL agreement with you on this Notch

Dreamer I guess teams made their own luck- what annoys me about Ireland is we make our own bad luck.

Rava- why wouldn't anyone agree with me?

I think what would upset me as an Irish fan is that apart from goal kicking you can't really point to any major errors or poor play in the first 78 minutes, whilst Wales leaked two very soft tries due to terrible defensive positioning. Ireland couldn't play much better whilst for most of the game Wales didn't hit top gear. Every time we built momentum we squandered it by a poor kick, mis handling or a sloppy penalty. However when the chips were down, Phillips inspired Wales to put it in overdrive and take the match. For Ireland there was no spare gear.

Oh, there were few errors but our tactics were miles off. We were still in the game, as you say, because Wales didn't take their chances to put us out of it. The scoreline certainly flattered us.

Come on Glas, Irelands performance was full of major errors and poor play. The number of times we allowed the Welsh backs to get up a head of steam for example. The "hole" in the lineout in the first few minutes. Are you saying the Jonathan Davies try wasn't down to error on Ireland's part? What about POC's missed tackle in the lead up to North's try?

I could go on. Both teams made errors. Wales made better use of their possession than we did.

Which one, the first or second?

goood evening all!!! Hope we are well? Turns out our match vs Llanrumney is on on Saturday so bring on the fights!!!!

Mods,

Could we please have a rule where you can ban condescending old ******?

It would help my blood pressure a lot!

Thanks.

I'd have to ban pretty much everyone then MrsP.

Eh?

Thanks for that Dreamer.

ha well I would! and I'm including myself in that, all posters are like it from time to time.

Quality v quantity. At the start it was all very civil. But there weren't many of us. Now we are beating the record of posters on line daily, but they are mostly spouting the usual 6N stuff. It's why the pub was invented of course.

oh bah humbug, I thought the Beeb coverage would have a replay at HT of what happened to Cuthbert at the very end of the first half when he was hit a bit late by Sexton, but they didn't. With the zoomed out camera you really can't see what happened clearly enough to see how he got injured. Am thinking accidental clash of heads but can't be sure.

The moon looks lovely tonight.

MrsP wrote:Mods,

Could we please have a rule where you can ban condescending old ******?

It would help my blood pressure a lot!

Thanks.

That's ageism!!

Yeah?

And whata you wanna do about it eh????

Believe me, I'm in no mood to be messed with !!!!!

Georgie's gonna get you!

Just up the 2nd Welsh try in the match, hadn't appreciated how easily Georgie avoided D'Arcy to be able to line up an off balance McFadden. Just brilliant. Then a tidy offload and the accleration of Foxy. Tis a try that makes me happy!

Also, master chef is making me really hungry, and I've no food in the flat

Dreamer I think you are unique. Nobody had mentioned the late hit by Sexton in the endless wumming yet you drop it in perfectly innocently!

Mrs P, does it make sense to be upset by irrelevant keyboard warriors when the people with the job of actually making the decision agreed with you?

ha, I don't know if that's a good thing or not Glas!

Ooo into the final 10 mins, then it will be amser gwely for me before the reality of work in the morning. Not looking forward to that.

Just as long as it wasn't me you were referring to

No no Rava.

I was only referring to people who are as old as Gibbo.



Glas,

You are probably right but I don't know if you have seen the amount of bile that some people who claim allegance to the same country as you, I refuse to call them fellow countrymen of yours, have thrown at me and some others for the past few days when all we have tried to do was figure out if a tackle was legal or not.

No, I kept away. However you are right and they are wrong and the Dublin based IRB have proved as much

Righty I'm off. Don't think I'll be posting on this site for a while either, really disappointed with the nature of the posts from both sets of fans on this site after waht was an incredible test match on Sunday. Not something that I want to waste my time reading anymore.

Nos da pawb.

You have to you're a mod.


I'll report all the bad ones if you want

Dreamer that's exactly how I feel.

Na phoener Cymro. That's why 't pub is here.

Let's have a light chat.

I've just paid my tax, I'm in the red for the first time in 8 years, both of my wife's sisters are pregnant and I can't afford to do what I really want which is to buy a farm. Oh yes and I've got a man sausage of a stockbroker on my case and I had to shout at hoodies that were jumping up and down on my wheelie bin earlier.



There we are. I feel better now.

Oi, oi (yup, I'm in from the pub)

A forum...

Discuss, debate, create articles that might be of interest.

We ain't gonna agree with every point of view; especially when that pov is clouded by national interest/bias. I'll just leave it alone, because you won't get agreement. Same as I do in my local.






Then I'll go and wum someone else...

I've just had a text from P1.

She went off to the USA today with school. Long journey so she asked me to make her a sandwich.

She forgot to bin it before she got off the plane and had an interesting time at Customs because it had ham in it!

Ahh MrsP teaching your children a valuable lesson to eat their sandwiches there!!

Poor kid.

I think she was mortified.

And we all know how good natured and fun loving US border control officers are!

Actually, it reminded me of my first trip to the US. I was going to LA to visit my brother. He asked me to bring some sausages from a famous local butchers so I bought the bangers, got them vacuum packed and frozen as requested and off I headed.

My sneaky bro hadn't told me about the "declaration" thing you have to sign on arrival in the USA as he knew I wouldn't lie on it and his sausages would be confiscated.

Unfortunately I spent half the flight attending to an ill passenger( having the captain of an DC10 come down the plane to speak to you and ask you how soon he might have to land the plane if required and telling you how much it would cost when you have only been qualified a few months is a bit scarey!)

Anyway, all this meant I didn't get my "declaration card" to fill in until I had got the ill man off the plane and safely handed over to the ambulance staff. Of course, by that stage I was standing with the suitcase, illegal sausages and all in an empty arrivals area.

I stood at the Food and Drink Agency desk for ages until I figured I had tried my best to declare the stuff and it wasn't my fault no one was there to listen!

The brother didn't get the warmest hug ever when I met him "Land side"!

Sure, there's no ha(r)m in it.

US Customs are not the friendliest folk. I hope P1 was not put off by the episode.

She seems fine although she did say that "I had got her told off".

Mother's guilt!

See, I had the other problem. On school trips I'd have eaten my packed lunch by the time we got off the bus and had feic all to eat when everybody else did.



Bore da.

Yesterday's news is in the recycling bin and will be chip paper in three months time.

Morning folks


I got grilled by US officials in Shannon before headed to New York, along the lines of


"morning sir, how are you today"


Yeah sound, you.


"im great sir, sure don't I work for the US Government"


Wry smile from Hugh


"Business or Pleasure Sir"


Pleasure


"and is this your first time visiting the US"


It is yeah.


"wwwwwwwhhhhhhhaaaaaa, no way, theres no way you can't have been in the US. It's the greatest country ever"


Eeeeehhhhh think you'll find a whole lot of people will disagree with you on that love.


"Oh really, well when are you coming back"

Two weeks

"are you sure"

Yeah

"Don't lie to me"

I'm coming back in two weeks

"Really"

Yeah


"Are you sure"

Yeah

"Definitely"

Yeah

"Really"

Yeah


"Thank you sir enjoy your trip"

Bore da pawb / good morning all. Colder than cold on the cycle to work this morning, a real face-freezer. *Scrapes ice off corneas*

Morning all. Got myself weekend now, no more work could be done in the office so took a few days off

hughie1986 wrote:Morning folks


I got grilled by US officials in Shannon before headed to New York, along the lines of


"morning sir, how are you today"


Yeah sound, you.


"im great sir, sure don't I work for the US Government"


Wry smile from Hugh


"Business or Pleasure Sir"


Pleasure


"and is this your first time visiting the US"


It is yeah.


"wwwwwwwhhhhhhhaaaaaa, no way, theres no way you can't have been in the US. It's the greatest country ever"


Eeeeehhhhh think you'll find a whole lot of people will disagree with you on that love.


"Oh really, well when are you coming back"

Two weeks

"are you sure"

Yeah

"Don't lie to me"

I'm coming back in two weeks

"Really"

Yeah


"Are you sure"

Yeah

"Definitely"

Yeah

"Really"

Yeah


"Thank you sir enjoy your trip"

Hughie pulls again

Morning all, pi$$ing down this morning. Thankfully it's only rain. please.

Glas "I'd have eaten my packed lunch by the time we got off the bus".

I see you still do ......

'A young couple from Nottinghamshire have won £45m in the EuroMillions lottery, Camelot has revealed.

'Camelot said the identities of the latest winners would be revealed at a press conference later.'

I cannot for the life of me understand why you'd want to go public with a win like that.

Rava wrote:Morning all, pi$$ing down this morning. Thankfully it's only rain. please.

Glas "I'd have eaten my packed lunch by the time we got off the bus".

I see you still do ......

It takes an effort to obtain gravitas young man.