The Dew Drop Inn Virtual Rugby Pub, Cross Keys

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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 pub has ventured to Cross Keys, as their team is in the British and Irish Cup Final.

The only rule in this pub is one of mutual respect for everyone in it, oh and no defacing the pictures of Richie McCaw, George Smith, Robert Nash,Billy Holland, John Muller, Greg Laidlaw, Aurelien Rougerie, Leo Cullen, Rhys Thomas and Iestyn Thomas.



Old Pub: https://www.606v2.com/t28083p1000-the-dew-drop-inn-virtual-rugby-pub-edinburgh#1168404

Quick update on the Heino gig list after this weekend's results:

The Auld Fella
The Auld Fella that lives in France
The Auld Fella in charge of HelfnSafety
The Auld Fella that is also King of Wales
His missus
Hoogues (+ ma/da/bro with great name/bro with great name's doris/ma's mate)
Hound (+ Andy)
George & Michelle
Aonghus
Aonghus's mysterious +1
A single Mick (H variety, maybe *)
The Reverend WhereverTheresADangerousSituationSendMeIn&I'llBeWearingAKilt
KiwiRD
The Auld (but considerably younger than the Auld fellas) Wee Wummin frae Perthshire
Notch and his da
rodders + GF
WillyGilly (maybe *)
PJ (maybe *)
Staggy (maybe * - depending on work commitments)
And the Auld Fella in the kilt

Any other takers at this point, any errors, anyone that I have accidentally ommitted, etc.?




Afternoon, Gib, fair old change in the weather today!

Asbo I will be there. hopefully will be able to meet up with you lot.

Nice list, As. Loving it man.

Hope you had a great Queens Day down in Den Haag bud. What a stunning day for it. Did the kids enjoy it?

Hangover weather today.

Gibson wrote:Nice list, As. Loving it man.

Hope you had a great Queens Day down in Den Haag bud. What a stunning day for it. Did the kids enjoy it?

Hangover weather today.

We did, thanks - the kids got well into the wearing of orange headgear! Plus free cakes, ice-creams and stuff - their idea of heaven!

It has come to pass...

http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/337acre-chinatown-hub-comes-to-athlone-3096482.html


https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=W7rMBWsgXUw#t=442s

AsLongAsBut100ofUs wrote:

Gibson wrote:Nice list, As. Loving it man.

Hope you had a great Queens Day down in Den Haag bud. What a stunning day for it. Did the kids enjoy it?

Hangover weather today.

We did, thanks - the kids got well into the wearing of orange headgear! Plus free cakes, ice-creams and stuff - their idea of heaven!

Ah lovely man. I can imagine their little faces. Its a great day for both youngters like us and old people.
I have some great pics. Must put some up this eve.

Paddy Jackson on the semi-final experience;

http://www.ulsterrugby.com/news/10474.php

Just got mugged in Sainsburys.




£60 on petrol for my wee polo. Raging.

Gibson wrote:It has come to pass...

http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/337acre-chinatown-hub-comes-to-athlone-3096482.html

Get ready for Celtic tiger 3!..........

Afternoon all. Busy today, or as that bit of skirt wot John Prescott was boffing used to spell it in her diary, 'bizi'.

Good afternoon all from Dubai. Arrived late last night so didn't get up till 1. Have gone to see my friend at his workplace and now we are going to go for a late lunch in the Dubai Mall.

Cool Munsty. Say hi to him for me

MBTGOG wrote:Good afternoon all from Dubai. Arrived late last night so didn't get up till 1. Have gone to see my friend at his workplace and now we are going to go for a late lunch in the Dubai Mall.

Munsty, have a fabulous trip

If you see someone called Steven Bond in Dubai, Munsty, say hello from me, he's my cousin. Chances are he'd need to be wearing a name badge for you to know who he was, but maybe name badges are all the rage over there.

Help! I told my bro that it would probably be better if he waited to buy a ticket until after the dust had settled from the SFs. Now Ticketmaster is saying that it's a sell-out. Any ideas out there? Any STHs with unused allocation? Please?

Perthshitepuma,

My company has some tickets for the game. However we need to use them as part of our packages. If we had some remaning I'll let you know though I appreicate its a little last minute.

PerthSHITEpuma?

The sheer cheek of you!

perthshirepuma wrote:Help! I told my bro that it would probably be better if he waited to buy a ticket until after the dust had settled from the SFs. Now Ticketmaster is saying that it's a sell-out. Any ideas out there? Any STHs with unused allocation? Please?

Really cant see it happening Puma. It was a near sellout, long before the SF's. I'll let you know if George or Michelle get their allocation in the Leinster STH Draw.

They have gone for 2 each.

Thanks guys keep searching. I am hoping that some tickets that had been bought by Embra or ASM fans might become available, otherwise will have to try picking one up on the day, but if any of the regs can help, I would be eternally grateful. Bert only lives an hour from Richmond on the train, so last minute travel arrangements are not a prob.

Stag, if you can come up with a spare, I might even forgive you the Perthshitepuma gibe

Enjoy Munsty. After lunch, check out Fibber Magees - any cab driver should know it. Many a good hoot has been had in that place.

perthshirepuma wrote:Stag, if you can come up with a spare, I might even forgive you the Perthshitepuma gibe

Poor ole staggy, he gets blamed for a lot of things.

Mods, a little mergnig help needed on the International section - England U20 JWC threads breeding like rabbits

See hound appreciates me Your a good old sort. He took me boozing in London with Hughie once upon a time.

Asbo, I mentioned it to a buddy of mine over here from Ulster, he said he may pop along depending on how many of his mates turn up for the game, he was talking about 20. That's too many ulster fans for me

Ha stag, I remember that pub. I forgot it was full of royal family memorabilia.

Hound_of_Harrow wrote:Ha stag, I remember that pub. I forgot it was full of royal family memorabilia.

Is that the one over near Marlebone? I went for pub lunch at a pub full of royal tat over that way once. The Thai curry was good at least.

Hoog wrote:Asbo, I mentioned it to a buddy of mine over here for Ulster, he said he may pop along depending on how many of his mates turn up for the game, he was talking about 20. That's too many ulster fans for me

You mean you WON'T be supporting Ulster Hughie?

Hound_of_Harrow wrote:Ha stag, I remember that pub. I forgot it was full of royal family memorabilia.

Oh yea it was I dont especially care about those things despite Portnoy referring to political Irish history in every post

Its all in the past. Anyway the royals bring a great sense of pagentry and medieval celebrity to a very drab UK!!

Rava wrote:

Hoog wrote:Asbo, I mentioned it to a buddy of mine over here for Ulster, he said he may pop along depending on how many of his mates turn up for the game, he was talking about 20. That's too many ulster fans for me

You mean you WON'T be supporting Ulster Hughie?

Think ill have to leave it up to you this time Rav

Kiwi - it was The Windsor Castle, round the corner from Edgware Rd district line tube station.

Almost certainly the same place you went to.

Hound_of_Harrow wrote:Kiwi - it was The Windsor Castle, round the corner from Edgware Rd district line tube station.

Almost certainly the same place you went to.

Yep, that's the one. I'm rubbish at remembering names

It didnt strike me as a place that did "pub grub" or meals of any kind really. Just a place that can pull a good pint of Guinness and is a nice place to sup a drink with friendly staff who don't mind letting Hughie into their establishment.

red_stag wrote:It didnt strike me as a place that did "pub grub" or meals of any kind really. Just a place that can pull a good pint of Guinness and is a nice place to sup a drink with friendly staff who don't mind letting Hughie into their establishment.

They're pretty rare alright

perthshirepuma wrote:Help! I told my bro that it would probably be better if he waited to buy a ticket until after the dust had settled from the SFs. Now Ticketmaster is saying that it's a sell-out. Any ideas out there? Any STHs with unused allocation? Please?

There are some up Here now but they're expensive. Keep an eye on that site, it's very reliable.

Pethshitepuma,

This is another site that sells tickets. Again its pricy - http://www.viagogo.ie/Sports-Tickets/Rugby-Union/Heineken-Cup-Tickets/E-354816

I hope we have some left over near the time as those sites are crazy prices and would hate you to pay it.

Stag, do you consider it a compliment that Ulster and Leinster will be trying to out Munster each other?

Glas a du wrote:Stag, do you consider it a compliment that Ulster and Leinster will be trying to out Munster each other?

In Munster we say that they are trying to "out Tiger" each other.

We learnt a huge amount from the 2000-2002 Tigers team in how they went about their business. We simply improved on it and put them to the sword by giving them a taste of their own medicine in 2003.

Could we see the ladyboys "out Leinstered" next year.

Glas might be the only person who thinks Munsters style in 2006 is roughly equivalent to Leinster 2012!

Opposite ends of the spectrum really; one team lives off quick ball and fluid game-breaking backs moves the other off slow ball, mauls, pick and gos and tactical kicking. Ulster in the middle ground between the two.

I'm surprised there hasn't been more Welsh admiration for Leinster- they play the kind of rugby you love over there except they win trophies with it. Sometimes the lines of running are pretty breathtaking.

Notch I think both Leinster and Ulster have unique styles. Ulster remind me a lot of Biarritz. A solid pack, a good backline and they have a playmaking number 9 with a #10 who takes far more of a backseat in the team. They play as part of France/Ireland but do not forget that they are Basque/N.Irish either.

It is a similarity I have felt for a while.

Leinster do something that so few teams do. Whoever is first to the ruck acts as scrumhalf. Its a very simple but very effective thing to do.

red_stag wrote:They play as part of France/Ireland but do not forget that they are Basque/N.Irish either.

I thought we were South African?....

now what good would it do to let on too quickly!

What do you mean? Did you see the last 10 minutes of the Clermont game? Pure Munster, lying on everything.

rodders wrote:

red_stag wrote:They play as part of France/Ireland but do not forget that they are Basque/N.Irish either.

I thought we were South African?....

Rodders, you can be whatever you want to be. . . . .except REAL Irishmen even Hugh Farrelly said it!

Ruan O'Pienaar is as Irish as they come stag

I know that and you know that but do the . . . .southern press know that!!!!

= Hugh Farrelly!!

Sorry, kiwi - I had to work like stink for a bit there ahead of (yet another) trip to Ex tomorrow.
The scoot back homewards on the tube.

The London regs should meet up for a summer pub crawl. Either Marylebone or Tower Bridge to Borough Market (and maybe on towards Waterloo).

Wouldn't fancy doing it in the sort of weather we've been having recently.

Hound_of_Harrow wrote:Sorry, kiwi - I had to work like stink for a bit there ahead of (yet another) trip to Ex tomorrow.
The scoot back homewards on the tube.

The London regs should meet up for a summer pub crawl. Either Marylebone or Tower Bridge to Borough Market (and maybe on towards Waterloo).

Wouldn't fancy doing it in the sort of weather we've been having recently.

Aye, make that a summer pub swim

red_stag wrote:

Glas a du wrote:Stag, do you consider it a compliment that Ulster and Leinster will be trying to out Munster each other?

In Munster we say that they are trying to "out Tiger" each other.

We learnt a huge amount from the 2000-2002 Tigers team in how they went about their business. We simply improved on it and put them to the sword by giving them a taste of their own medicine in 2003.

Could we see the ladyboys "out Leinstered" next year.

Thats a really sharp comment made in jest, in fact. We set a standard, learned in part - from Munster & Tigers before us... but most of all - Toulouse.

Toulouse are our template as a club and as an entity. Never mind as a team.
Our next task is to try and emulate them, for years to come.

My bet, is that ASM will "Out Leinster" us next year. The hurt is in place.

Puma!

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