The Dew Drop Inn Virtual Rugby Pub, Sixmilebridge

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Sláinte and 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 made it's way to the homeland of the wonderful Eirebilly, who we were all horrified to hear that he was involved in a helicopter crash on Friday. Better news though is that he's awake and swearing like a sailor, so no change there Feel free to take in all of the pubs, of which the Greyhound is but one of many.

Updates on Billy's progress can be found here: https://www.606v2.com/t30132-eirebilly-op-updated-02-06-2012 and I'm sure we'll all continue in sending the positive thoughts and good wishes to him and his family.

The only rule in this pub is one of mutual respect for everyone in it, oh and no tampering with the snooker table, brought in especially for Billy. And I'm not quite sure how that picture of a sheep got above the bar.....




Old pub: https://www.606v2.com/t29683p950-the-dew-drop-inn-erc-2012-commemorative-pub-dublin#1271612

The three questions:

Pre:

"what do you expect (blank) to do..."

"what's going through the players minds now (blank)..."

Post:

"how does it feel..."

Rava wrote:

Glas a du wrote:With that level of perceptiveness Notch, you'll be on the touch line with a mic interviewing in no time

Nowhere near good looking enough for that job Glas

I can't argue with that assessment, I've already said as much!

I'm not an, er, Tyrone Howe style heartthrob par example...

...cleaned his clock...

"Ah, excuse me, translator! Anybody speak 'colonial'?..."

The big question for Kiwi is how many ABs he'd replace with Irish players in his squad, and for our Irish chums, how many Irish players they'd replace with ABs - let the games begin

"The big question for Kiwi is how many ABs he'd replace with Irish players in his squad, and for our Irish chums, how many Irish posters they'd replace with ABs - let the games begin "




ABs posting on 606?



You've been at that mispelt stuff again, haven't you?

MrsP wrote:

"The big question for Kiwi is how many ABs he'd replace with Irish players in his squad, and for our Irish chums, how many Irish posters they'd replace with ABs - let the games begin "




ABs posting on 606?



You've been at that mispelt stuff again, haven't you?

Shoite, you've rumbled me

Well, it's not too difficult really.

Still celebratingthe Jubilee like every other loyal subject?

Ship a few of the Irish U20s over from SA.

MrsP wrote:Well, it's not too difficult really.

Still celebratingthe Jubilee like every other loyal subject?

My eyesight is simply not good enough to read that, and I'm sure you're not allowed to say that anyway!! No politics in the pub, rule #1!

Right, time to cycle home

Yes, or yiu'll start me off and I'm 'observing a studied indifference' OK?



Asbo, what do you reckon of my pension idea? Gibbo thinks its bonkers.

Buenas tardes, amigos. So, just watched the second half of Aus v Sco - bl**dy amazing that Scotland were camped in their own half, if not their own line for 35 minutes of the second half - awesome defensove effort - and then came back and won at the death. I just loved it.

Anyway, what's happening, folks? Got the stitches out of my hand on Monday. Holy Moly, wish I'd done it myself. Sorry to say that local clinic is not up to scratch - had to remove the suture that they left behind myself today. Nothing, however, to wjat EireBilly is going through just now. But I know that reading the posts from 606v2 will be giving him a massive boost. Keep it up amigos

Whoever wrote the WRU website's player profiles needs to be shot. They had this to say on Scott Williams: ""

And apparently Ashley Beck is still in the Ospreys' U18 squad.

Mutter mutter mutter (PS, Glas, I've added an "additional reporting by KRD" byline to your Wales tour preview, just so you can blame me for the blurbs on the above).

As for Irishmen in the ABs starting XV, I'd have O'Brien (or Ferris if fit) at 6, Tommy Bowe at 14, and possibly Cronin at hooker. There's a couple of other close match ups, and O'Connell would walk in if fit,

Thats interesting, Best is a nailed on starter. Why would you prefer Cronin?

Glas a du wrote:

...cleaned his clock...

"Ah, excuse me, translator! Anybody speak 'colonial'?..."

Come on then...

You've really never heard that expression?

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clean_someone's_clock

Notch wrote:Thats interesting, Best is a nailed on starter. Why would you prefer Cronin?

Erm, because I had a brain fade on which Irish hooker was which.

Glas, "cleaned his clock" means "utterly outperformed"

I was all ready to talk about how Cronins mobility and pace would see him thrive in Super Rugby, whereas Bests game in the tight is valued higher in these parts but you're answer is good too!

Never heard the phrase cleaned his clock before!! Is it a common one?

red_stag wrote:Never heard the phrase cleaned his clock before!! Is it a common one?

Only with us young and happ'nin dudes!

Its a measure of my balanced upbringing that I have heard both the phrase to clean someones clock and the slightly more common now she's sucking diesel. The clock one might be a tad posher though.

I've just had a read over some other articles. Quite bemused I have to say

I prefer Cronin. If he was South African every club in Europe would be after him. Such pace and handling for a hooker. Quite fantastic.

Anyhow, Stag, your Flip blog is a Kumquat to Flip post anything on. Half an hour I spent reading and providing a response only for it to Flip eat it and for me to get embroiled with Flip google the Kumquat s!

Glas, it seems to be all blogs.

I had the same with "The Demented Mole"s blog

Glas a du wrote:Yes, or yiu'll start me off and I'm 'observing a studied indifference' OK?



Asbo, what do you reckon of my pension idea? Gibbo thinks its bonkers.

Glas, missed that in my skim back, I'm afraid, so can you explain again?

Rather than pay a fund manager to pick and chose shares just spread it evenly accross the FTSE 100.

Perfectly sensible, it's called equal weighting or 1/n, a viable alternative to weighting by market capitalisation. You might also think about equal risk weighting, or equal weighting to risk factors

Glas's Wales preview on the Journal, for the wall.

http://www.v2journal.com/wales-summer-tour-preview.html

AsLongAsBut100ofUs wrote:Perfectly sensible, it's called equal weighting or 1/n, a viable alternative to weighting by market capitalisation. You might also think about equal risk weighting, or equal weighting to risk factors

Tidy darts.

red_stag wrote:Never heard the phrase cleaned his clock before!! Is it a common one?

Ah come on now stag I'm sure there's plenty of clock cleaning done down in Limerick.....

I just don't get the euphamism? my wits are against me tonight!!

L

The Irish team is out at 2am. Anyone up for late night indignation?

Notch wrote:The Irish team is out at 2am. Anyone up for late night indignation?

Only an hour and a half to go

There's a good chance I'll doze off before then. I'm sure the 'excitement' can wait until morning if I do!

I read Gerry Thornleys team earlier.

I'd be astounded if the team was anything other than that.

01 Cian Healy
02 Rory Best
03 Mike Ross (Declan Fitzpatrick if Ross isn't fit)
04 Donnacha O'Callaghan
05 Donnacha Ryan
06 Stephen Ferris
07 Peter O'Mahony
08 Jamie Heaslip
09 Conor Murray
10 Jonathan Sexton
11 Keith Earls
12 Gordon Darcy
13 Brian O'Driscoll (c)
14 Andrew Trimble
15 Rob Kearney

16 Sean Cronin
17 Declan Fitzpatrick (Loughney if Ross isnt fit)
18 Dan Tuohy
19 Chris Henry
20 Eoin Reddan
21 Ronan O'Gara
22 Fergus McFadden

Did you mean SOB at 6?

I think you mean Sean O'Brien, not Stephen Ferris. But yep- thats what I expect too.

I like this from Rob Kearney

“Because you’re representing your country against the All Blacks in their own back yard. I think that, as a professional player, if you can’t get yourself fired up at that thought alone then you are probably playing in the wrong game.”

– Rob Kearney, when asked by a Kiwi journalist how does he fire himself up for this weekend’s game.

Yeah. I hope these guys can pull it off. I think we have natural winners in this team. Guys like Best, Ryan, O'Brien, O'Mahony, Sexton, O'Driscoll, Kearney... They don't travel on tours like this to settle for second place.

I do just increasingly feel that they aren't being provided the tools to tap into that winning potential from the coaches, who set the tone, and some of their teammates just aren't that quality either. I'm not optimistic, which is a shame for the genuinely class players we have. Just hope we leave New Zealand with our pride intact, some reputations enhanced and most importantly a clear idea of how this team will move forward in the next few years.

Not on IRFU site yet, but RTE reporter has team as
Kearney
McFadden
BOD
Earls
Zebo
Sexton
Murray
Healy
Best
Fitzpatrick
Touhy
Ryan
POM
SOB
Heaslip

BENCH
Cronin
Lougney
DOC
McLaughlin
Reddan
ROG
Cave

Night All

Morning slackers


Miserable morning in London

Morning Hoog,

Miserable here too, feckin weather.

OMG!!! (not a term I use a lot)

I am CHUFFED and astounded by that Irish team.

- No Trimble
- No Darcy
- No O'Callaghan
- O'Driscoll and Earls in the centres
- A new look back three
- Cave and McLaughlin on the bench

Feic it the optimist in me has awoken.

Bore da pawb / good morning all, buckets of rain here in Newport earlier. The pup doesn't mind the rain too much now though, so our walk wasn't so bad.

littleswannygirl wrote:Me too Lucky, I loved it. Almost everyone in my year hated them but they suited me. Guess we're both built for stamina not speed

Every time I watch the London Marathon I wonder if I could do it? It'd take some serious dedication and effort but it does appeal, it's on my 'would like to do' list.

My uncle's run it. I made a £50 bet with my middle sister that I'd run it by the time I was 30. It's now £100 that I'll run it by the time I'm 40!

Luckless you'll be several thousand pounds in debt by time your a pensioner.

You'll see, Stag. You'll all see!

Who's Lougney?

Ronan Loughney. Plays for Connacht. A decent enough player in my opinion. Has played on both sides of the scrum. Won the IRFU Medal of Excellent this year,