The Corso Marauders Dew Drop Inn Virtual Rugby Pub, Amsterdam

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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 its way to Amsterdam in honour of original publican Gibson who is finally back in gainful employment. One small step for man ...

The only rule in this pub is one of mutual respect for everyone in it, oh and no tampering with the pictures of former Corso Marauder Lawrence Dallaglio or young ice hockey prize winner (thanks to the v2ers) Chris Boyd.



Old pub https://www.606v2.com/t34157p950-the-dew-drop-inn-virtual-rugby-pub-sea-of-tranquility-luna#1518392

Spoiler:

Had leinster by 12 as well happy days. Couldn't be much closer,

Have the buzzards by 10 in t'other game

Well it was going swimmingly for most of it Hugster. But, then we fell of and Dragons got 2 quick tries. No tackling involved. We made it a game. Didnt need to.

Maaaaaaaackennnnnnnn!

45-25. Better. But could do better in defence.

Madigan was brilliant. Cooney was superb. Macken & Reid - were a lot better than last week. Conway is coming on. So fast. Carr? Meh.

13 - 6 to the O's at the moment Hoog so you aren't too far off. 66 mins gone.

13 - 9 now.

For Leinstuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuur supporters

Cheers big fella, least you were top of the league for a week :stout: back at ya buddy


Sounds good Gibbo, Basterds ruined my prediction though

And a frontrow of McGrath, Cronin and Hagan - was so solid. Pushing Dragons back all game. I missed the 1st half, but thats what I was told. Scrum was solid in the 2nd half too with VDM on.

Yeah mate, won't see that for a while again.

Spoke to Jase Tovey down Risca earlier. He's looking forward to next week. If our first choice front row front up against the Blouse one, we could have a bit of joy.

Ulster just scored a try!

Their bench has made a difference (which is unsurprising)

Think that's both those predictions out the window now Hoog!

Amazing! Ahhh!

I can't believe it.

We were AWFUL in the first half. We played brutal. What an effort in the second half to win against the Champions. Very happy.

Nicked the win there Notch, although you were the better side last 20. Poor poor game all in all though.

Congrats on the win

Righty am off for the evening, laters folks

Bit of a bad result for the Ospreys is that. They shouldn't lose many/any at home really.

Aww, it was a very low quality game. Very poor! Any decent side would have punished us for being so sloppy in so many areas of our game. Ospreys let us off the hook. And with the sheer quality we had coming off the bench, they needed to get a good lead put up in the first 60.

They didn't, we improved, I'm happy we deserved it- but God we'll need to do better than that in the first 40 next week!

Notch, a win is a win and a win on the road is most welcome. A win in Wales against the defending champions is fantastic.
I didn't watch it so can't comment but have it recorded for later.

Cari,

Gibbo and Hoog I watched the young Leinster team get a great result although you will not be happy at conceding tries, especially at home.

Gibbo, I'll give you a shout later mate

Risca Rev wrote:Bit of a bad result for the Ospreys is that. They shouldn't lose many/any at home really.

The Ospreys would have to look at it as a disastrous result. Ulster put out a second string side which then underperformed badly for sixty minutes. If they were doing their job right, we would have had no chance of coming back to nick it no matter how good we were in the last 20!

The truth is Ospreys and Ulster were both poor all game, we won it because we hit our straps eventually but in the first half I thought it was amongst the worst games I've seen in the Pro12. The way we came back sort of redeemed it a bit, but it's definitely one of those games were you happily take the win and forget the match itself.

It will be remembered as a real shocker by the Os fans. We'll be able to move on because we got that all important win. The Ospreys support will be gutted by the result AND their teams performance.

Dragons are mint though Rav. 7 tries in two games. That's beaten last years total already

Rava- agreed! Whats great is how many players we have to get back still. We're winning with a massive list of absent players. IF we can keep it going next week, we're onto a good thing.

The guys who came off the bench made a massive impact. Enjoy the game.

Well the best thing about that match for me was seeeing Tommy in the dug out. Well done Ulster.

Risca Rev wrote:Dragons are mint though Rav. 7 tries in two games. That's beaten last years total already

They certainly play to entertain Rev.

Commiserations Cari. Thats a tough one

Genuinely feel for ya. Hope you get to see T.Bowe play live at Ravenhill. That would at least aprtially make up for it, I hope

Notch, have you got that report/thesis/essay thingy finished. Stag arrives into Belfast at 1.00 on Friday. See you at Central Station.

Aw Rava, my deadline is at 12. I'm probably going to want to go to bed after i had it in! I can't see sleeping being high on my to-do list this week. I hardly slept last week.

I'm definitely going to the game though mate, will meet you at Ravenhill?

Well, that match was redeemed by the last 15-20 mins - good result for the men in white. Spent a frustrating 15 minutes trying to get a stream for Leinster v Dragons but no joy. Hope this situation improves, otherwise I'm going to miss a lot of our games.

So, glad to hear you had a good day, Dreamer. Weather a bit iffy here, but I had a good march out to the Lochan an Eireannaich (about 8 km) and it stayed dry - about as good as it gets this 'summer'.

Notch wrote:Aw Rava, my deadline is at 12. I'm probably going to want to go to bed after i had it in! I can't see sleeping being high on my to-do list this week. I hardly slept last week.

I'm definitely going to the game though mate, will meet you at Ravenhill?

No problems.

Gibbo did you get to see it in the end? Do you have a satellite box yeah? You can probably add the channels to it, you can do that to most, as every Rabo carrying channel bar RTE/TG4 (frequencies for them could be available soon with saorview) and the italian one, you would be covered most of the time.


How are we all? That's a good win for Ulster, 4 Irish provinces winning so a decent weekend, aside from the footballers who were shoite. NFL season starts tomorrow and we might end up doing a podcast for that too, also finished a Q&A with a guy who won the Super Bowl some questions provided great answers, others didn't. A bit disappointing.

Evening all

Rava, got your text bud but can't reply as no signal down in the village where my sister lives. Fortunately she does have internet access so I can get on here. Gutted with the result mate, but heard from people who went that we were much improved from last week. Great result for Ulster mate. SUFTUM

Have spent the the afternoon with my mum. Bought her a professional photoshoot with all her grandchildren for her 60th Birthday at the end of July, and we had it today. Was hilarious, not sure the photographer knew what she'd let herself in for taking on my little ones and my nieces and nephews!!!

Ozzy

I'm just sitting on the train to Weybridge pretending to be a passenger, don't tell anyone I'm the guard

Big congrats to Andy Murray by the way, into another grand slam final. He keeps putting himself there and he will win one just really hope it this one.

Ball in Aberglasney full of posh Muppet...and me. I did my bit by standing on the grass by the "keep off the grass sign" #workingclasshero.

#keepingitreal

Hoog wrote:Big congrats to Andy Murray by the way, into another grand slam final. He keeps putting himself there and he will win one just really hope it this one.

This has to be a massive chance for him. He will get an extra day to recover as well. The other Semi has been held over to tomorrow.

Odds are it'll be Djokovic in the Final. They've played each other a lot, and they played recently too. Shame I won't get to see it.

You sayin the final is not tomorrow now Rav??

Rav, sweetie, are you planning to come over for Ulster v Warriors in October? Let me know, si?

Morning all: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/nov/07/vibrator-victorian-women-film-hysteria - who the hell knew? Job as a Bictorian doctor?

Sold the tourist lamb to the telephone bidder for a grand and had the car back. Inter cooler pipe had worked loose, been clipped back and a new one ordered. All's well that ends well.

bore da pawb, been catching up on all the tennis highlights, can't wait for Andy's final tomorrow now. Would love to see him win it. Have watched him in so many slam finals now, just....ah it would be unreal if he could win one. He deserves it.

Also match report by here: http://cornelsiobhan.wordpress.com/ for the O's game y'day.

Typed up when I'm still in bed, love lazy Sundays

AsLongAsBut100ofUs wrote:Morning all: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/nov/07/vibrator-victorian-women-film-hysteria - who the hell knew? Job as a Bictorian doctor?

Hmmm. Brings to mind 'The Engineer's Song'.

Hmm, I shall be telling the doris later that that's quite enough of her hysteria!

What's that, when you can get her attention is it?

English football fans are possibly the most blinded and ond one sided. It is laughable.

Thomond wrote:English football fans are possibly the most blinded and ond one sided. It is laughable.

And how do they compare to Welsh Rugby fans? ..

Big game coming up for the Let's see if last weeks performance can be repeated.

Thomond wrote:English football fans are possibly the most blinded and ond one sided. It is laughable.

Why?

Thomond Im not sure they are any worse than other fans.

They are worse than Irish fans who couldn't see the wood from the trees 2 years ago when Trap was past it, read the last 2 pages of this thread and tell me that any English lads are talking sense. If you think they are then I question your sanity: https://www.606v2.com/t34621p100-world-cup-qualifiers-thread-7th-and-8th-september

urgh God. Finally got the chance (i.e I have to) move all my stuff from the study where it was dumped when I moved home and put it up in my bedroom. I have a ridiculous amount of stuff. Still haven't gotten round to shifting my books upstairs. Blydi tired now

All fans from all countries have their own irritations in different ways I reckon.

There's optmisim and just everything is grand syndrome. It clearly isn't and hasn't been for a long time, it just bugs me, I know some English lads who agreed with my path for reform (laid it out befor, will post if it's desired) and it's a few lads on here who are probably just ghouls.


Cracking hurling game here. KK look a bitt rattled.