The Dew Drop Inn Virtual Rugby Pub, Sydney

by Guest Sat 16 Jun 2012, 5:49 pm

First topic message reminder :

Hello 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 Sydney, as it prepares to host the final test match of the Australia v Wales series.

The only rule in this pub is one of mutual respect for everyone in it, oh and no tampering with the pictures of Kiwi, Linebreaker, Biltong and Asbo above the bar.

cuppa

Old Pub: https://www.606v2.com/t30855p1000-the-dew-drop-inn-virtual-rugby-pub-christchurch#1318423

by AsLongAsBut100ofUs Tue 19 Jun 2012, 10:28 am

Surely not, Pete, the work of an admin is never done! Wink

by Guest Tue 19 Jun 2012, 10:29 am

Kiwireddevil wrote:
Risca Rev wrote:Holiday Breaker. Summer pre-season camp for me though too. Need to start training, as I expect my club will be back training again near the start of July.

So no Strategic Assets Supplied this trip then Rev?

Well you never know. Watch the news. Might see something Suggesting A Story Wink

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Good Aussie side. Have to try finding a bar in Playa De Las Americas open at 7am local for it. Have Welsh shirt with me just in case.

by Rava Tue 19 Jun 2012, 10:42 am

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:Stag, Dan Biggar should be perfectly suited to the game Gatland wants us to play, but he didn't fare too well against the Barbarians (whether he was fully fit I don't know). My problem with him is that his first instinct is to kick. I don't like that in an outside half.

Lucky this is a very silly thing to say to Stag. He has been brought up believing this is the main quality of a fly-half Whistle

by red_stag Tue 19 Jun 2012, 10:43 am

Rava wrote:
Luckless Pedestrian wrote:Stag, Dan Biggar should be perfectly suited to the game Gatland wants us to play, but he didn't fare too well against the Barbarians (whether he was fully fit I don't know). My problem with him is that his first instinct is to kick. I don't like that in an outside half.

Lucky this is a very silly thing to say to Stag. He has been brought up believing this is the ~~main~~ only quality of a fly-half

by Rava Tue 19 Jun 2012, 10:44 am

I stand corrected thumbsup

by Glas a du Tue 19 Jun 2012, 10:45 am

So would you prefer an outside half who's first instinct is not to kick, being told to kick?

by Rava Tue 19 Jun 2012, 10:49 am

Glas a du wrote:So would you prefer an outside half who's first instinct is not to kick, being told to kick?

Now you are trying to confuse things Glas. I would just play James Hook who doesn't do what he is told.

by **Pal Joey** Tue 19 Jun 2012, 10:57 am

Depends on the match situation doesn't it, Glas?

by Luckless Pedestrian Tue 19 Jun 2012, 10:59 am

No Glas, that's why I said that Biggar should be ideally suited to our current kick-happy gameplan.

by Glas a du Tue 19 Jun 2012, 11:11 am

All you have to remember is that Howley is a Muppet. Gatland is keeping his cards close to his chest pending his return. If we'd have lost three nil under him not picking the right team I'd be worried.

by Suspicious lurker Tue 19 Jun 2012, 11:20 am

Back again

Smashed out 30k on the bike cleared the hangover right up

That's sorted the body now to sort the mind, channel 131, hello Jeremy Kyle!!!

by Hound_of_Harrow Tue 19 Jun 2012, 11:21 am

I'm not sure why Gatland has turned a team, who naturally run with the ball, into a bunch of 'kick chasers'. He never coached Wasps like that. True, we also used the blitz defence, but there the comparison ends.

That kicking game handed the second test to Aus. They should have trusted themselves to close put the game with ball in hand.

England also handed SA the match deciding score via a poor kick from Joseph. Too deep and an ineffective, disjointed, defensive line.

by red_stag Tue 19 Jun 2012, 11:22 am

Hound isn't Gatland offer recovering from that ladder fall. They weren't that much of kick chasers in the 6 Nations.

by AsLongAsBut100ofUs Tue 19 Jun 2012, 11:27 am

Hound_of_Harrow wrote:I'm not sure why Gatland has turned a team, who naturally run with the ball, into a bunch of 'kick chasers'. He never coached Wasps like that. True, we also used the blitz defence, but there the comparison ends.

That kicking game handed the second test to Aus. They should have trusted themselves to close put the game with ball in hand.

England also handed SA the match deciding score via a poor kick from Joseph. Too deep and an ineffective, disjointed, defensive line.

Hound, have been thinking that England are seriously missing some carrying in their boiler-room - between Parling, Botha and Palmer across both tests, they have carried for a mere 40m in total - do you think that puts England at a distinct disadvantage? Is there an obvious solution?

by Luckless Pedestrian Tue 19 Jun 2012, 11:29 am

Hound, initially under Gatland we were holding on to the ball and doing the annoying all-the-way-to-one-touchline-and-back-again thing without making much ground. Then we switched to this kicking game, but crucially the playmakers in the team were given licence to play outside that gameplan as things developed in front of them. Whether Priestland's confidence is so shot that he doesn't look at other options or that licence has been revoked, I don't know; but it's deeply frustrating watching us choosing to defend rather than attack.

by Hound_of_Harrow Tue 19 Jun 2012, 11:41 am

Lawes might give us more go forward in the second row, As. Possibly Launchberry too, in time.

True, lucky. Wales were going side to side a lot. But with a decent crop of centres now I don't get the kicking game.

Laters folks, I'm at the office in Exe.

by **Ozzy3213** Tue 19 Jun 2012, 11:55 am

Morning all

Sat at crown court waiting for the jury to reach a verdict or 4. Could be a long day.

by Rava Tue 19 Jun 2012, 11:59 am

Ozzy3213 wrote:Morning all

Sat at crown court waiting for the jury to reach a verdict or 4. Could be a long day.

Hi Pete, hope you remembered your toothbrush and some "snout" money Very Happy

by **Biltong** Tue 19 Jun 2012, 12:02 pm

Linebreaker wrote:Dan Who?

No worries, the Rugby Championship hasn't started yet. Whistle

by KiaRose Tue 19 Jun 2012, 12:06 pm

Morning all (actually afternoon, but I haven't had lunch yet, so it is still morning)

IN case anyone is interested the highlights of the last round of the JWC are now up on the IRB website. Only show the tries, but ...

http://www.irb.com/jwc/news/newsid=2062963.html#video+jwc+match+four+highlights

by Pete C (Kiwireddevil) Tue 19 Jun 2012, 1:47 pm

A nice wee 5.2 earthquake in Melbourne earlier, quite a few ex-Chchers are muttering about the things following them around.

by Luckless Pedestrian Tue 19 Jun 2012, 1:50 pm

Shouldn't it be Chchch?

by **Pal Joey** Tue 19 Jun 2012, 1:52 pm

There was one in Armidale a week or so back. Only a 4.9. We get thousands of little ones all the time in Oz but they're usually 'out back of Woop-woop' and apart from a few startled lizards and birds... no damage. Newcastle '89 was our worst I think.

by Suspicious lurker Tue 19 Jun 2012, 2:06 pm

I don't really know make of this

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Daes4bW4B-Gs%26sns%3Dfb&sns=fb&v=aes4bW4B-Gs&gl=GB

by red_stag Tue 19 Jun 2012, 2:10 pm

Hoog wrote:I don't really know make of this
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Daes4bW4B-Gs%26sns%3Dfb&sns=fb&v=aes4bW4B-Gs&gl=GB

I think that the guy is trying to compliment us. . . .but it doesnt quite come across that way.

by Suspicious lurker Tue 19 Jun 2012, 2:18 pm

I think your right stag, he's a bit mad though

by red_stag Tue 19 Jun 2012, 2:23 pm

Yea especially that ending . . .. WOW!!!

I think that view is a bit outdated by about 30 years though.

by **Notch** Tue 19 Jun 2012, 2:31 pm

I don't know what to say except its good he got that off his chest? Headscratch

by Glas a du Tue 19 Jun 2012, 2:59 pm

Is James Andrews the new Roy Keane?

by red_stag Tue 19 Jun 2012, 3:04 pm

Glas a du wrote:Is James Andrews the new Roy Keane?

I'm not sure I dont think so. Keith Andrews might be though

by Glas a du Tue 19 Jun 2012, 3:06 pm

You must know him Stag, he's a land agent in Carmarthen. Very Happy

by Glas a du Tue 19 Jun 2012, 3:07 pm

And he couldn't be less like Roy or Keith if he tried!

by red_stag Tue 19 Jun 2012, 3:10 pm

Glas a du wrote:You must know him Stag, he's a land agent in Carmarthen.

How is all with you my wooly friend. Tell that lurvly secretary of yours I didn't mean what I said about Welsh and the referees.

Well I did mean it but tell her sorry if she is cheesed off by it.

You glad to be crossing swords with Leinster or would you have rathered Munster again?

by Thomond Tue 19 Jun 2012, 3:12 pm

Glas a du wrote:Is James Andrews the new Roy Keane?

Roy Keane has more talent in his baby finger than Keith Andrews ever will. So no.

by red_stag Tue 19 Jun 2012, 3:14 pm

Yes but Keith Andrews is now our defensive midfielder whose temper bubbled over during a major competition. He was also described by the Irish Times as "our best player of the tournament".

by Thomond Tue 19 Jun 2012, 3:17 pm

Stag, that's not saying a lot. Andrews played well but that's like saying Monaghan United were in a better financial state than Galway United (both clubs went to the wall)

Keano is a legend who was one of the msot gifted midfielders in Irish history and will go down as a Manchester United legend and a legend of the game. The only Irishman to make the top 100 players of all time list made by Fifa. To compare Andrews to Keane is tarnishing Keane's legacy

by red_stag Tue 19 Jun 2012, 3:23 pm

Yea but he was from Cork so you'd think that Very Happy

In reality Roy Keane is not behind his own fans, he was sacked for being disruptive towards his team mates, always felt he was bigger than his national team and is considered a controversial figure even within his own country and for the clubs he played for.

Is Keane the new Gavin Henson?

by Thomond Tue 19 Jun 2012, 3:24 pm

Poor Wum Stag. You don't even know a lot of what you're talking about here.

How did he feel he was bigger than the country?

by red_stag Tue 19 Jun 2012, 3:25 pm

P.S. - Tongue in cheek

by red_stag Tue 19 Jun 2012, 3:26 pm

Ah beat me to my PS comment Thomond!!

by Thomond Tue 19 Jun 2012, 3:27 pm

Even for a WUM a lot of it is complete shoite Wink

by red_stag Tue 19 Jun 2012, 3:28 pm

Thomond wrote:Even for a WUM a lot of it is complete shoite

You read the comment and of all the points you only disputed one of them Wink

by **Biltong** Tue 19 Jun 2012, 3:28 pm

OK THIS IS A FIRE DRILL.

VACATE THE PUB IMMEDIATELY.

Those that can't stand, start crawling. Whistle

by **Biltong** Tue 19 Jun 2012, 3:29 pm

Those that do not comply, will be arrested.

by red_stag Tue 19 Jun 2012, 3:29 pm

Hello officer, do you want a drink?

by AsLongAsBut100ofUs Tue 19 Jun 2012, 3:30 pm

by Thomond Tue 19 Jun 2012, 3:32 pm

Not worth debating Stag. He is a controversial figure in Ireland, I wouldn't say United fans find him too controversial though. He is blatantly honest, and was gotten rid of at United for a lot of reasons really, some was the criticism he had with is team mates, he also had an argument with Fergie. Are irish fan behind his statements last week? Somewhere in the middle, I would agree with some of his points but he is being a bit OTT with them.

by prop_lyd Tue 19 Jun 2012, 3:32 pm

Best handcuff me then because I've got 3 cider

lined up at the bar!!

by **rodders** Tue 19 Jun 2012, 3:33 pm

I'm disgusted by the negative press that Keane has gotten for telling it like it is. The guy has given so much for his country but gets no respect or love from the people.......

It's clear that Keane is the new Paddy Wallace..... Run

by **Biltong** Tue 19 Jun 2012, 3:36 pm

No respect for the law in this place, might as well have a drink then. Ale

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