The Dew Drop Inn Virtual Rugby Pub, Dar es Salaam

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Hamjambo. Karibuni 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 Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to visit pub regular MBTGOG on his big trip there. Maisha marefu! Afya! Vifijo!

The only rule in this pub is one of mutual respect for everyone in it, oh and no defacing the pictures of Sir Fred "The Needle" Allen, Aberdeen Shikoyi, Isoa Damudamu, Chris "Mossy" Patterson, Nathan Hines and Simon Danielli. The poor defenseless IRB referee's jersey draped over the dartboard is fair game though




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Hamjambo. Karibuni ... - Hello. Welcome to ...
Maisha marefu! Afya! Vifijo! - Cheers

Afternoon all.



I see I can't leave you lot alone for a few hours without the tone dropping considerably!!

Bad news....There is absolutely no way we will get to Twickenham.

Good news...At least we were right to back the chance of the wee fella qualifying for the Ulsters.!!!!



Very proud mum!

I have no idea what you mean MrsP

Congrats on the news from your wee fella

Pity Mrs P.

Great for Nigel Owens. I thought he deserved it. Hope he does well. I think that means Risca's presentation evening is moving to the following week though, as he's our speaker. That means I can't go collect all my awards in person.

Still on a high about the Keys. Think I might get a ticket up there instead of down Dragons next year. Serious.

I'm not disappointed Rev.

Now if we had decided not to go and then he hadn't qualified I would have been disappointed for him.

I'm happy enough although we may have to watch in time lapse!

Unless....

Does anyone happen to own a tardis?

Ah I know you have a major consolation. Just mean a pity for us lot.

Awwwwh Rev!

Thanks!

MrsP wrote:Afternoon all.



I see I can't leave you lot alone for a few hours without the tone dropping considerably!!

Bad news....There is absolutely no way we will get to Twickenham.

Good news...At least we were right to back the chance of the wee fella qualifying for the Ulsters.!!!!



Very proud mum!

Congrats to young MasterP

Pass on my congrats as well Mrs P.
PM for you btw.

MrsP - congratulations to MasterP. I'm sure when you're watching him any thought of the final will be a distant one

Also chuffed to see the Blues going back to the Arms Park. That's great news for this city. I'll probably go and watch a few things up there now just cause I enjoyed it so much last time I went and the atmos was better. Definitely go to see the O's and Ulster games anyway

Oh and evening all, hope everyone's well.

Evening Cari. Lovely sunny one it is as well.

So, its official then that The Blues return to the Arms Park. Can only be a good thing for them. I hope that the City gets behind them now and they are playing to bigger crowds with a better atmosphere. I might just join you at an Ulster game there in the future.

They will Rava. A lot of fans stayed away from the CCS precisely because they didn't like the Blues being based there. They've been nagging for ages to get back at AP, so I think it'll be a good thing for the club and surrounding businesses. Would like to see the O's do something similar now...

The sun's gone away from here now, but it was lovely earlier.

Evening pub et al.

Congratulations due to MstrP, you must be a very proud family , any of the other 7 showing any promise MrsP?

The Blues are back at the Arms Park then, and Bath have appointed a new coaching team for next season, it's all on the up and up...

... must be worth a .

PJHolybloke wrote:Evening pub et al.

Congratulations due to MstrP, you must be a very proud family , any of the other 7 showing any promise MrsP?

The Blues are back at the Arms Park then, and Bath have appointed a new coaching team for next season, it's all on the up and up...

... must be worth a .

Cheeky beggar!

Actually, one of the other 4 is showing some potential at LJ. Very early days for her though. She has got a few medals already mind.

sounds like you have good sporting genes in the blood then MrsP, you're a particularly good sport too to be fair.

There's 5 now! Blydi heck you don't hang about!

Thanks PJ!

Good news for Bath and Cardiff then.


Did the Blues have to pay much to get out of the CCS deal or have they not said?

Glas a du wrote:There's 5 now! Blydi heck you don't hang about!

There have been 5 since the youngest arrived 8 years ago.

You'd know better than me. I've only just got one.

Mike Schutte a retired heavyweight boxer in SA is sitting in the park on a bench next to Jimmy Abbot another retired heavyweight boxer.

They are watching Jimmy's Bulldog licking his privates, so Jimmy turns to Mike and asks him.

"Can you do that?"

Mike looks at Jimmy and says " Are you nuts, he'll bite me."

Glas a du wrote:You'd know better than me. I've only just got one.

Good job if your counting is as bad as it seems.

I understand there's an island somewhere in Polynesia that has a simplified system of counting, they have three numbers; one, two and another number that roughly translates as "many".

Right there, that's my kind of Maths.

I kinda prefer a simpler method.

there is one

and there is more than one.

Sa rugby game plans work on that basis. Every movement has one pass. Any movemoent which requires more than one pass is taboo and not required.

We won two world cups that way.

We have often said that about how many kids you have.

After 3 it just becomes "many"!

biltongbek wrote:I kinda prefer a simpler method.

there is one

and there is more than one.

Sa rugby game plans work on that basis. Every movement has one pass. Any movemoent which requires more than one pass is taboo and not required.

We won two world cups that way.

Don't you mean more than one World Cup Biltong?

Yep. sorry, you caught me.

That actually does work better cause with my maths nobody will ever have more world cups than us.

biltongbek wrote: Yep. sorry, you caught me.

That actually does work better cause with my maths nobody will ever have more world cups than us.

True but is more than one World Cup taboo and not required?

MrsP wrote:We have often said that about how many kids you have.

After 3 it just becomes "many"!

I guess it does, but does anything over 6 become "two many" then... or "many-many" ?

Rava wrote:

biltongbek wrote: Yep. sorry, you caught me.

That actually does work better cause with my maths nobody will ever have more world cups than us.

True but is more than one World Cup taboo and not required?

No mate, more than one world cup isn't confusing, where as more than one pass is far too complex for our simple minded boertjies.

You see Rava, when other nation's coaches, commentators or players discuss gameplans, it is about when and how the overlap was created etc.

with us it is all about, THE bash, THE pass, THE tackle, THE offload, THE kick or THE try ( sadly we usually only score one of those in a match anyway).

Don't I blydi know it Biltong!

Watching Ulster is exactly the same thing

What's a "try" then?

PJHolybloke wrote:What's a "try" then?

Well it doesn't mean three if that is where you are going.

It merely means scoring a touchdown.

Rava wrote:Don't I blydi know it Biltong!

Watching Ulster is exactly the same thing

Excuse me!!!!

Ulster have scored more of them "try" thingeys than any other Pro 12 team this season!!!!!!! And that includes all the "we only play positive, running rugby" lot!

biltongbek wrote:

PJHolybloke wrote:What's a "try" then?

Well it doesn't mean three if that is where you are going.

It merely means scoring a touchdown.

Oh yeah, I remember now - being a Bath fan it's easily forgotten, I think the last try Bath scored was worth 4 points, rumour has it they're going to try and score another one soon, maybe as early as next season...

PJHolybloke wrote:

biltongbek wrote:

PJHolybloke wrote:What's a "try" then?

Well it doesn't mean three if that is where you are going.

It merely means scoring a touchdown.

Oh yeah, I remember now - being a Bath fan it's easily forgotten, I think the last try Bath scored was worth 4 points, rumour has it they're going to try and score another one soon, maybe as early as next season...

Excellent PJ, I just spat my coffee all over myself.

MrsP wrote:

Rava wrote:Don't I blydi know it Biltong!

Watching Ulster is exactly the same thing

Excuse me!!!!

Ulster have scored more of them "try" thingeys than any other Pro 12 team this season!!!!!!! And that includes all the "we only play positive, running rugby" lot!

Sorry, boring tries don't count.

Well if them ones that aren't really tries, you know the ones the TMO gets wrong count then our boring ones have to count as well.

Most of our tries were scored against Edinburgh!

Good ones too...

PJHolybloke wrote:

biltongbek wrote:

PJHolybloke wrote:What's a "try" then?

Well it doesn't mean three if that is where you are going.

It merely means scoring a touchdown.

Oh yeah, I remember now - being a Bath fan it's easily forgotten, I think the last try Bath scored was worth 4 points, rumour has it they're going to try and score another one soon, maybe as early as next season...

Not letting Vesty touch the ball for a while are we?!

prop_lyd wrote:

PJHolybloke wrote:

biltongbek wrote:

PJHolybloke wrote:What's a "try" then?

Well it doesn't mean three if that is where you are going.

It merely means scoring a touchdown.

Oh yeah, I remember now - being a Bath fan it's easily forgotten, I think the last try Bath scored was worth 4 points, rumour has it they're going to try and score another one soon, maybe as early as next season...

Not letting Vesty touch the ball for a while are we?!

Or Claasens, ya biatch.

biltongbek wrote:

PJHolybloke wrote:

biltongbek wrote:

PJHolybloke wrote:What's a "try" then?

Well it doesn't mean three if that is where you are going.

It merely means scoring a touchdown.

Oh yeah, I remember now - being a Bath fan it's easily forgotten, I think the last try Bath scored was worth 4 points, rumour has it they're going to try and score another one soon, maybe as early as next season...

Excellent PJ, I just spat my coffee all over myself.

Sorry about the bean juice Biltong, here on me. How's mini-Biltong doing nowadays, still interested in the front row cage-fighting?

PJHolybloke wrote:

prop_lyd wrote:

PJHolybloke wrote:

biltongbek wrote:

PJHolybloke wrote:What's a "try" then?

Well it doesn't mean three if that is where you are going.

It merely means scoring a touchdown.

Oh yeah, I remember now - being a Bath fan it's easily forgotten, I think the last try Bath scored was worth 4 points, rumour has it they're going to try and score another one soon, maybe as early as next season...

Not letting Vesty touch the ball for a while are we?!

Or Claasens, ya biatch.

Or Banahan/Donald

prop_lyd wrote:

PJHolybloke wrote:

prop_lyd wrote:

PJHolybloke wrote:

biltongbek wrote:

PJHolybloke wrote:What's a "try" then?

Well it doesn't mean three if that is where you are going.

It merely means scoring a touchdown.

Oh yeah, I remember now - being a Bath fan it's easily forgotten, I think the last try Bath scored was worth 4 points, rumour has it they're going to try and score another one soon, maybe as early as next season...

Not letting Vesty touch the ball for a while are we?!

Or Claasens, ya biatch.

Or Banahan/Donald

At least normal service has been resumed in the West Country, Glaws finishing behind the Chosen Ones...

See you in the Amlin next season - it's where the real Euro action is.

Yeah exactly.....where the better teams will be and more competition allowed plus no Munster/Leinster/Ulster wobblies

prop_lyd wrote:Yeah exactly.....where the better teams will be and more competition allowed plus no Munster/Leinster/Ulster wobblies

I've often said the Amlin has the intrinsic competetive edge that the Heino just doesn't, what with all the "fake" resting of key players that goes on with all the Provinces leading up to HC matches, it has to be said that as a level playing field the Heino is a totally devalued competition and barely worth the designation of a tinpot cup - let alone the presumption of being THE European Cup competition.



Honestly, with all their bull and bluster, you'd think the Irish were going to win it again this year...







Wait for me!

You know what I've noticed?

Whenever Racing Metro or Castres or Montpellier- even Leinster this year- rest key players in the Heineken Cup group stages once their fate is sealed, nobody calls it a devalued competition.

Discuss

Notch wrote:You know what I've noticed?

Whenever Racing Metro or Castres or Montpellier- even Leinster this year- rest key players in the Heineken Cup group stages once their fate is sealed, nobody calls it a devalued competition.

Discuss

to you an'all big bad Ulsterman.

Devalued, devalued I tell ya!!!

PJHolybloke wrote:Sorry about the bean juice Biltong, here on me. How's mini-Biltong doing nowadays, still interested in the front row cage-fighting?

He is doing great PJ, I was alittle angry with the wife as she carelessly left a glass on the floor little more than a month ago and my son put his hand through it and got quite a nasty gash on his palm.

It was almost healed and then due to being an 8 year old played in the dirt and got an infection in it which meant he missed 5 weeks of training and rugby.

Luckily there was a school holiday inbetween which meant he only missed 3 friendlies, but went back last week and immediately got back in the team.

The coach has put him on 1,2 and 3 now, and last match he played he had to scrum against a kid quite a bit heavier than him, I don't know if you recall the photo's I put on here of him, but he isn't the biggest kid around for his age. Maybe short and stocky would be the best description of him.

Anyway with the first engagement of the scrum his opposing prop slapped him in the face and him being a mild hearted kid I thought it might intimidate him.

No chance mate, he scrummed seven sorts of Shoite out of his opponent.

I couldn't be prouder.

Haha good on him!! I play 1-2-3 and am only 14 stone yet, and I hope penfro will back me up here....I've proven to these valley boys who can be 20stone plus that technique is everything. Let the lad continue to play all across but pick on main position to have as first choice. Versatility is key in this day and age!!

Pop, I myself was only 92 kg when I played club rugby at loosehead and can vouch that technique is more important than bulk.

I have to say it seems the lad inherited my strengths in the leg and back department, I do agree he mst pick a position, but for now I think any exposure is good for him.

My preferred position for him would be hooker though, I just think you get to do a bit more there.