The Dew Drop Inn Virtual Rugby Pub, Taihape

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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 Taihape - The Gumboot Capital of the World!

http://www.taihape.co.nz/

We also welcome our newest member, Amber ...who no doubt will have an interest in those boots!

The only rule in this pub is one of mutual respect for everyone in it, oh and no tampering with the pictures of Aaron Smith, Topsy Ojo, Jason Shoemark, Tom Rees, Gonzalo Garcia, Leo the Leinster Lion and Lalakai Foketi up on the wall.



Last Pub: https://www.606v2.com/t35494p1050-the-dew-drop-inn-virtual-rugby-pub-oxford

Safe home Rev

Sunshine And Steaks - A great combination

Haha

Just read about the Warrington player. Mega ouch. Can't imagine playing on after that.

Jerusalem on the Radio.

Did the answering all the questions with a 'NO!' thing.

Cracks me up every time

Heard a radio quiz on the way in to work today.

The girl needs to beat the previous score of 8 questions.

She has answered 7 and is given a true or false question. She says "I dont know. Pass"

Question, will Kidney pick Strauss for the Ireland squad this Autumn? He’s clearly one of the best 3 hookers in Ireland and he’s qualified now.

No he'll pick Best, Cronin and Varley. Strauss might get a free IRFU tracksuit if he's a good boy though.

red_stag wrote:Heard a radio quiz on the way in to work today.

The girl needs to beat the previous score of 8 questions.

She has answered 7 and is given a true or false question. She says "I dont know. Pass"

Which county was she from?

Speaking of quiz questions, this was the tie-break question I had at the Dolphin Inn pub quiz in Lanzarote (the first of three times we won it ):

There's only one other word in the English language that can be made from the letters of the word STARVED. What is that word?

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:Speaking of quiz questions, this was the tie-break question I had at the Dolphin Inn pub quiz in Lanzarote (the first of three times we won it ):

There's only one other word in the English language that can be made from the letters of the word STARVED. What is that word?

Is "adverts" a word, or just an abreviation of "advertisements" these days?

Is was good enough for us to win a bottle of Cava and a Dolphin Inn t-shirt, Pete!

Adverts?

Edit: ah bah, just seen that Kiwi beat me to it!

"The long list of venues selected by ER 2015 and approved by the RWCL Board is as follows:

Villa Park, Birmingham
Brighton Community Stadium, Brighton
Ashton Gate, Bristol
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
CoventryStadium, Coventry
PridePark, Derby
Kingsholm, Gloucester
Elland Road, Leeds
LeicesterCity Stadium, Leicester
Olympic Stadium, London
Twickenham Stadium, London
Wembley Stadium, London
Old Trafford, Manchester
Stadiummk, Milton Keynes
St James’ Park, Newcastle
St Mary’s Stadium, Southampton
Stadium of Light, Sunderland"

Have they learnt nothing from the experiment of shoehorning rugby into soccer Stadia?

rodders wrote:No he'll pick Best, Cronin and Varley. Strauss might get a free IRFU tracksuit if he's a good boy though.

Varley, yeah he's far more deserving alright.

Glas a du wrote:St James’ Park, Newcastle

Shouldn't that be Sportsdirect.com@StJames'sPark?

Can I just say what annoyed me most about the TMO's decision-making at Parc y Scarlets last Friday? It was that, once he'd concluded that the penalty had been missed, he was content to award the try after viewing it from just one angle, an angle that had Gareth Maule between the ball and the camera. How on BOD's green earth can you, as a TMO, award a try when you can't possibly see whether the ball has been grounded?!

To quote C. Montgomery Burns: incompetent boobery.

Awful decision to leave out Welford Road, especially for the Walkers Stadium or whatever that place is called.

Mickado wrote:

rodders wrote:No he'll pick Best, Cronin and Varley. Strauss might get a free IRFU tracksuit if he's a good boy though.

Varley, yeah he's far more deserving alright.

Ah, you know how this game is played by now Mick. Irish coaches under pressure and their siege mentality leads to excessive player loyalty. This is history repeating itself. Don't expect too many new faces.

Luckless,

I just saw it on Scrum V. He looked at it immediately after he decided it had not gone over, but then for some reason Nigel decided to stop it and ask that question afterwards where it seemed to me the TMO was just looking at it again to confirm what he already knew. It certainly was a try.

Anyway, if I was the Dragon's coach, I'd be furious at my players for completely turning off!

Mickado wrote:

rodders wrote:No he'll pick Best, Cronin and Varley. Strauss might get a free IRFU tracksuit if he's a good boy though.

Varley, yeah he's far more deserving alright.

I would say he is far more deserving on the basis he would play for Ireland ahead of South Africa if given the choice.

But how can you say 'it was certainly a try' when the player's body was blocking your view of the grounding? Surely if you can't see it, you can't give it?

Notch wrote:

Mickado wrote:

rodders wrote:No he'll pick Best, Cronin and Varley. Strauss might get a free IRFU tracksuit if he's a good boy though.

Varley, yeah he's far more deserving alright.

Ah, you know how this game is played by now Mick. Irish coaches under pressure and their siege mentality leads to excessive player loyalty. This is history repeating itself. Don't expect too many new faces.

Ah yeah Notch, par for the course at this stage.

Did anyone catch the podcast from newstalk last week where Gerry Thornley not only suggested that Kidney was doing a good job and should be left in place to see out his contract (fair enough) but that he’s the best candidate for the job and should be retained with a new contract thereafter. I needed something to give me the impetus to stop reading print journalism* altogether, and that was it.

*I still read my bro in laws articles in the Sun, but that doesn’t count.

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:But how can you say 'it was certainly a try' when the player's body was blocking your view of the grounding? Surely if you can't see it, you can't give it?

From watching it again, maybe there was a different angle in the live feed, but you can see him getting downward pressure on the ball.

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:But how can you say 'it was certainly a try' when the player's body was blocking your view of the grounding? Surely if you can't see it, you can't give it?

Not really depends what referee says:

- Any Reason I Can't Award a Try? = "Im pretty happy but Im just double checking" = Inconclusive video evidence is a Try

- Is it a Try? Yes or No? = "Not a bloody clue what happened. Help me out here TMO" = Inconclusive video evidence is No Try

Mickado wrote:

rodders wrote:No he'll pick Best, Cronin and Varley. Strauss might get a free IRFU tracksuit if he's a good boy though.

Varley, yeah he's far more deserving alright.

As Clint Eastwood would say... deserves got nothing to do with it Mick ...

red_stag wrote:

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:But how can you say 'it was certainly a try' when the player's body was blocking your view of the grounding? Surely if you can't see it, you can't give it?

Not really depends what referee says:

- Any Reason I Can't Award a Try? = "Im pretty happy but Im just double checking" = Inconclusive video evidence is a Try

- Is it a Try? Yes or No? = "Not a bloody clue what happened. Help me out here TMO" = Inconclusive video evidence is No Try

He asked the second question, Stag.

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:

red_stag wrote:

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:But how can you say 'it was certainly a try' when the player's body was blocking your view of the grounding? Surely if you can't see it, you can't give it?

Not really depends what referee says:

- Any Reason I Can't Award a Try? = "Im pretty happy but Im just double checking" = Inconclusive video evidence is a Try

- Is it a Try? Yes or No? = "Not a bloody clue what happened. Help me out here TMO" = Inconclusive video evidence is No Try

He asked the second question, Stag.

Really? In that case its a pity.

Trying to decide what jersey to bring to Dublin Saturday, my new Leinster jersey or my chiefs jersey............


Cover all angles Hoog

It's more than a pity, Stag. I thought you were a Dragons supporter these days? Unless you've ditched us now we're 11th in the table.

Trying to decide what jersey to bring to Dublin Saturday, my new Leinster jersey or my chiefs jersey............


Cover all angles Hoog

The fact that you even need to ask that question disappoints me Hughie

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:It's more than a pity, Stag. I thought you were a Dragons supporter these days? Unless you've ditched us now we're 11th in the table.

Not at all Luckless. 11th is above all my wildest dreams. Ill be on the bandwagon as long as we maintain these lofty heights

Just saying it happens. We has a situation in the Munster game where referee said that Munster knocked on in act of scoring a try. Munster beg him to use the TMO. Referee says no I've seen the knock on - no reason for TMO. Replays show no knock on.

Poop happens.

Luckless,

Do you think it wasn't a try?

Mickado wrote:The fact that you even need to ask that question disappoints me Hughie

Your right mick, it is

red_stag wrote:

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:It's more than a pity, Stag. I thought you were a Dragons supporter these days? Unless you've ditched us now we're 11th in the table.

Not at all Luckless. 11th is above all my wildest dreams. Ill be on the bandwagon as long as we maintain these lofty heights

Just saying it happens. We has a situation in the Munster game where referee said that Munster knocked on in act of scoring a try. Munster beg him to use the TMO. Referee says no I've seen the knock on - no reason for TMO. Replays show no knock on.

Poop happens.

Suppose it evens out the first try which was a forward pass and the ref didn't see it.

Mickado wrote:

red_stag wrote:

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:It's more than a pity, Stag. I thought you were a Dragons supporter these days? Unless you've ditched us now we're 11th in the table.

Not at all Luckless. 11th is above all my wildest dreams. Ill be on the bandwagon as long as we maintain these lofty heights

Just saying it happens. We has a situation in the Munster game where referee said that Munster knocked on in act of scoring a try. Munster beg him to use the TMO. Referee says no I've seen the knock on - no reason for TMO. Replays show no knock on.

Poop happens.

Suppose it evens out the first try which was a forward pass and the ref didn't see it.

Yea exactly. Swings and roundabouts. The referee was far from the reason we lost that match.

I think the game swung in a two minute O'Gara v Sexton battle. Leinster winning 20-14. O'Gara with a fairly gettable kick the chance to make it a 3 point margin - hits the post. 90 seconds later Sexton nails his penalty chance - instead of being 20-17 it is now 23-14 and Leinster start to get momentum and turn the screw.

IMO this mini battle decided the winner of the game.

Im happy enough overall with how the team did.

Munsty, Gareth Maule almost certainly grounded the ball. The point is that unless the TMO has X-ray vision, there's no way he could have seen that from the camera angle presented to him. And, of course, if shouldn't have got to that point anyway.

red_stag wrote:

Mickado wrote:

red_stag wrote:

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:It's more than a pity, Stag. I thought you were a Dragons supporter these days? Unless you've ditched us now we're 11th in the table.

Not at all Luckless. 11th is above all my wildest dreams. Ill be on the bandwagon as long as we maintain these lofty heights

Just saying it happens. We has a situation in the Munster game where referee said that Munster knocked on in act of scoring a try. Munster beg him to use the TMO. Referee says no I've seen the knock on - no reason for TMO. Replays show no knock on.

Poop happens.

Suppose it evens out the first try which was a forward pass and the ref didn't see it.

Yea exactly. Swings and roundabouts. The referee was far from the reason we lost that match.

I think the game swung in a two minute O'Gara v Sexton battle. Leinster winning 20-14. O'Gara with a fairly gettable kick the chance to make it a 3 point margin - hits the post. 90 seconds later Sexton nails his penalty chance - instead of being 20-17 it is now 23-14 and Leinster start to get momentum and turn the screw.

IMO this mini battle decided the winner of the game.

Im happy enough overall with how the team did.

Yeah, good call. I think BOD scored shortly after Sexton made that kick to bring it to 30-14. Both teams just playing for BPs at that stage.

I want ROG gone. He got flattened in the build up to O'Driscolls try. As in steamrolled by McFadden who ran straight over him like Lomu and Mike Catt.

Yes! An outside halfs first and main duty is defence!

Glas, an inferior playmaker to Keatley too. A far greater threat and got the backline moving and attacking Leinster. Once he came on we were a different side.

45 minutes 'til I'm out of here. I love getting Monday out of the way.

red_stag wrote:

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:It's more than a pity, Stag. I thought you were a Dragons supporter these days? Unless you've ditched us now we're 11th in the table.

Not at all Luckless. 11th is above all my wildest dreams. Ill be on the bandwagon as long as we maintain these lofty heights

I don't know what's happened to you Stag. All of a sudden, you're funny!

Glas a du wrote:Yes! An outside halfs first and main duty is defence!

Being able to defend his own space should be a bare minimum requirement. Whatever about being a good defender ala Wilko.

I think Stag is spot on.

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:

red_stag wrote:

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:It's more than a pity, Stag. I thought you were a Dragons supporter these days? Unless you've ditched us now we're 11th in the table.

Not at all Luckless. 11th is above all my wildest dreams. Ill be on the bandwagon as long as we maintain these lofty heights

I don't know what's happened to you Stag. All of a sudden, you're funny!

I've mellowed in my old age. I turned 24 yesterday and since them the wise cracks have kept on coming.

I think its noticeable how much better our defence has been since iHump went to LI. And how much worse theirs has been

Rava wrote:I think its noticeable how much better our defence has been since iHump went to LI. And how much worse theirs has been

In similar fashion we have seen our attack improve since Tomas O'Leary left and how their attack has deteriorated.

Did anyone else see the Argentina fans who were shining lasers into the eyes of the Australia players during line outs.

red_stag wrote:

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:

red_stag wrote:

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:It's more than a pity, Stag. I thought you were a Dragons supporter these days? Unless you've ditched us now we're 11th in the table.

Not at all Luckless. 11th is above all my wildest dreams. Ill be on the bandwagon as long as we maintain these lofty heights

I don't know what's happened to you Stag. All of a sudden, you're funny!

I've mellowed in my old age. I turned 24 yesterday and since them the wise cracks have kept on coming.

I almost find you likeable (almost being the key word here).

I just wish the Scarlets fans cared about this injustice as they did for theirs v Ospreys

red_stag wrote:

Rava wrote:I think its noticeable how much better our defence has been since iHump went to LI. And how much worse theirs has been

In similar fashion we have seen our attack improve since Tomas O'Leary left and how their attack has deteriorated.

feck de pair of ye barstewards!!!

In fairness, iHumph has played 3 games, and we've won 2 of them!

True that Ozzie but then Munster have also won a couple of games with ROG playing