The Dew Drop Inn Virtual Rugby Pub, Jersey

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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 the island of Jersey, where the newly promoted hme side is off the bottom of the Championship.

The only rule in this pub is one of mutual respect for everyone in it, oh and no tampering with the pictures of Glen Jackson, Dan Parks and Matt Banahan above the bar.



Previous Pub:
https://www.606v2.com/t36603-the-dew-drop-inn-virtual-la-botticella-pub-rome#1640787

Billy, so sorry

Sad news Billy

Sorry to hear your news Billy

Billy, what to say? That is too young. May your Dad rest in peace. My thoughts are with you and your family. And just write what you feel is right. Remember the laughs and the good times.

Billy, really sorry for your news.

Just reading back, so sorry to hear your news Billy

Bon soir. Monday done and dusted.

I'm getting a bit underwhelmed by the upcoming AIs owing to the raft of injuries affecting most of the teams, bar NZ.

Just getting our excuses in early.

And a message for Linebreaker if he pops in. My local pub is running an International Beer Festival, which features beers brewed by overseas brewers at UK breweries.

Coming up is Australian IPA from the Feral Brewery in Baskerville. Any ifea what they're like?

Evening All

My condolences Billy. I'm sure you'll do a marvellous job with the eulogy.

I hope you're enjoying Bommy Night.

Miffed Ryan Jones is out of the start of the AIs too.

Yeah Cari - that's kind of what I meant by the earlier post.

Gray for Scotland and Palmer for England are the latest injuries.


I'll enjoy bommy night if the locals stop letting fireworks off by 10pm.

I'm actually looking forward to watching the AIs on the telly. I'm not really thinking about results too much. Any excuse to see Tommy really.

Ah 'Tommy Night'


Joe Launchbury has been called into the England squad to replace Palmer.

Good for young Joe, but not great for Wasps. I think he would have been rested for Friday night's LV game against the Bloos, mind.

Story Cari? Story Hound?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs2OBVE-UNA

Hiya guvnor. Doing OK mate

I'm putting in for early retirement. No gurantees I'll get it, but it would would be nice if I'm accepted.

Hows you bud.

Ah that would be great Hound. More time to see even more of the Planet. More time to go to rugby games. Luvly-jubbly man.

I wish it for you. You have earned it bud.

Love you. You always make it nicer.

Believe.

Hound_of_Harrow wrote:And a message for Linebreaker if he pops in. My local pub is running an International Beer Festival, which features beers brewed by overseas brewers at UK breweries.

Coming up is Australian IPA from the Feral Brewery in Baskerville. Any ifea what they're like?

They are a boutique brewery in WA - I've never tried their product but it seems like they have a good selection.
You might need a knife and fork to drink their "Razorback" brew though.

https://www.feralbrewing.com.au/our-beer/

Melbourne Cup today - "the rice that stops a nyshun" I love it when an outsider wins. My Quest For Peace.

I have just been handed a Western Province jersey. My nephew sent it over from London. Love it. Another shirt of Champions to go on the wall. Grand.

Lb - cheers. I got a sample of that IPA before I left earlier. Stunning beer with a passion fruit taste.

At 5.5% ABV I'll indulge in just the one tomorrow.


Gibbo, I've worked me ragged orse of for 38 years. From poverty and a deprived background to a point where no fecker owns me any more is a dream.

Nowt's guaranteed; it's up the company.

Evening all, just a quick visit to leave some money for the jukebox:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4sa2HoXpsE

MrsProp loves them and I'm growing pretty fond too!!

I can't view that one on the phone prop. Who is it?

The Weepies........never heard of them till I met her.......very chilled, easy to listen to before bed

Fingers crossed it happens for you Hound, give you the chance to enjoy the fruits of your labours

Hound_of_Harrow wrote:Lb - cheers. I got a sample of that IPA before I left earlier. Stunning beer with a passion fruit taste.

At 5.5% ABV I'll indulge in just the one tomorrow.


Gibbo, I've worked me ragged orse of for 38 years. From poverty and a deprived background to a point where no fecker owns me any more is a dream.

Nowt's guaranteed; it's up the company.

Me too. Started out with less than nowt when I left home. Shoe-box int middle of rood.

Dey dont know dare borrrn FFS!

This is where you and I came in bud.

Slaap lekker Big Man.

Lets take it to the streets bro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G54lfxiid_w

Linebreaker wrote:

Hound_of_Harrow wrote:And a message for Linebreaker if he pops in. My local pub is running an International Beer Festival, which features beers brewed by overseas brewers at UK breweries.

Coming up is Australian IPA from the Feral Brewery in Baskerville. Any ifea what they're like?

They are a boutique brewery in WA - I've never tried their product but it seems like they have a good selection.
You might need a knife and fork to drink their "Razorback" brew though.

https://www.feralbrewing.com.au/our-beer/

Melbourne Cup today - "the rice that stops a nyshun" I love it when an outsider wins. My Quest For Peace.

Cheers for that link breaker. Good to see a brewery producing some interesting looking beers.



OK prop. I'll keep an ear out for them. Will most likely hear them on XFM here.

Right folks. 'Lights out'

Nos da peeps.

Keep the faith.

Thats the problem with kids these days, they don't know what it is to be hungry...

swanny, Gibbo

Evening all. Just back from a workshop with the Ulster rugby strength and conditioning coach. Interesting stuff. He reckons Connacht are a bit more clued up on certain things.....

Some interesting insights into how Ulster train.....

rodders wrote:Evening all. Just back from a workshop with the Ulster rugby strength and conditioning coach. Interesting stuff. He reckons Connacht are a bit more clued up on certain things.....

Some interesting insights into how Ulster train.....

You mean like knocking de livin shoite out of The European Champions?

Too right. But.

Munster & Ulster, will never be afforded that particular luxury.

Rumour and facts have it... we can beat those two at will. No matter how cocky they get.

Big Love.

Bore da pawb / good morning all, I'll just de-ice the kettle. <shivermetimbers>

I'm quite annoyed about this, but judging by the noises coming out of the Wales camp, it wouldn't surprise me to see Sam Warburton selected at blindside for the Argentina game. I swear some people think he has magical powers. He wasn't called up to the squad as a blindside. If he isn't the best openside we have, and he isn't, then he should be on the bench.

In much less important news, there's an election on in the States. It's okay though, they've only spent about a billion dollars on their campaigns.

It all goes around.

The inside line is:

15-9 Halfers, North, Davies, Roberts, Cuffbert, Priest, Big Mike
1-8 Jarvis, Hibbard, James, Evans, AW Jones, Shingler, Warburton (c) Faletau.

The Bread of 6 rumour is just posturing for the Argies.

Warburton won't play an hour.

Picking him at 7 is almost worse than picking him at 6!

I see the ‘Old Gits’ were rambling on last night . Every blydi time they get together –

GIBBO:
Aye, very passable, that, very passable bit of risotto.

HOUND:
Nothing like a good glass of Château de Chasselas, eh, Gibbo?

MICK DE CHEF:
You're right there, Hound.

RAVA:
Who'd have thought thirty year ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Château de Chasselas, eh?

GIBBO:
In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.

HOUND:
A cup o' cold tea.

RAVA:
Without milk or sugar.

MICK DE CHEF:
Or tea.

GIBBO:
In a cracked cup, an' all.

RAVA:
Oh, we never had a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.

HOUND:
The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.

MICK DE CHEF:
But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.

GIBBO:
Because we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness, son".

RAVA:
Aye, 'e was right.

GIBBO:
Aye, 'e was.

RAVA:
I was happier then and I had nothin'. We used to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof.

HOUND:
House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling.

MICK DE CHEF:
Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in t' corridor!

GIBBO:
Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh.

RAVA:
Well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us.

HOUND:
We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go and live in a lake.

MICK DE CHEF:
You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road.

GIBBO:
Cardboard box?

MICK DE CHEF:
Aye.

GIBBO:
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

HOUND:
Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!

MICK DE CHEF:
Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife.

RAVA:
Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.

GIBBO:
And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.

ALL:
They won't!

.............

Good Morning All

Has his form really dropped off Lucky? Must say I'm way out of the loop with his recent club form. He had injury, no?

Obama gave one of the 'classic American' speeches where his voice was so exaggerated it started quavering.... it sent a few chills down my spine for about half a minute. He's a great orator that's for sure.

I really hope he hangs on and can win this Election. Something about Romney which makes me feel a little uneasy.

I won't claim to have watched every minute of either of them playing this season, but Tipuric is playing quite a bit better. But the die was cast when Howley named Warburton as squad captain, I suppose.

Some of the things Mitt Romney said on his mini-tour of the Middle East make me fearful of what the next four years might hold if he gets into the White House.

Gibson wrote:

rodders wrote:Evening all. Just back from a workshop with the Ulster rugby strength and conditioning coach. Interesting stuff. He reckons Connacht are a bit more clued up on certain things.....

Some interesting insights into how Ulster train.....

You mean like knocking de livin shoite out of The European Champions?

Too right. But.

Munster & Ulster, will never be afforded that particular luxury.

Rumour and facts have it... we can beat those two at will. No matter how cocky they get.

Big Love.

Nah it was actually pretty interesting. It was about screening young athletes for muscular imbalances which lead to injuries, and applying corrective measures at an early stage to help prevent injury.

He actually is working now with Brian McLaughlin, going out into the schools to help develop the kids before they reach academy level. He was saying the players currently coming into the academy need to go 10 steps back to go one forward they are so poorly developed physically because they aren't doing the correct training... thats why our young guys are breaking through so late to the pro ranks I suppose.

It really gave an insight into how poor we are over here at developing young players/athletes. Brian is looking at applying techniques from other sports like Gymnastics and Judo to help develop the younger players physically.

He was saying Connacht have the players doing pilates to develop core strength but they haven't brought that in yet in the other provinces.

P.S. Vote Obama!

Nice penfro!!

I agree about Romney, when I was in Florida and there was the political thing in Tampa (drove through) I just wasn't too sure about Romney can understand what you mean by 'there's something about him' makes me feel uneasy.

Most American's I know want Obama out but don't want Romney in!! I reckon Obama'll hold on, just.

Obama 276 Romney 262.

You heard it here first.

Also if anyone wants a giggle I suggest going on YouTube and searching for 'I told my kids I ate all their Halloween candy'. It will restore you faith in humanity.

GUYS DON'T FORGET YOUR PREDICTIONS

https://www.606v2.com/t36082-autumn-internationals-inhouse-prediction-game


errrr, good afternoon.

and err, good MORNING to you Biltong

Hi everyone.

Anyone know anything about cars?

We got my car serviced 10 days ago in the place we bought it from a year ago. Today it failed it's MOT because the hand brake only works on one side!

Surely that is something they should have noticed during the service, no?

He was saying Connacht have the players doing pilates to develop core strength but they haven't brought that in yet in the other provinces.

That's heart warming.

I've doubted this bulk up at all costs approach for young men. In 2007 I was spending a month at a time in an arm chair unable to get to the office because of my back. I was popping pain killers for fun and ended up going to the doctor with stomach pain. I was refereed to a Physio who was useless, but my Dad was referred to one by BUPA who was excellent. He gave me core exercises to do daily. I dread to think what state I'd be in now otherwise. The first time I went to him, the NHS Physio had written me off, I had a MRI scan showing degeneration of disks and vertebrae and the NHS consultant had written me off. My wife was driving and I was laid out on the back seat of the car. It took 3 months of weekly sessions and exercises to get me back working on the farm and I go monthly to this day.

He told me of a youth rugby player who had bulked up his pecks and abs so much compared to the rest of him that he'd developed a hunch and was almost inevitably going to end up injuring his back and legs seriously. He never went back for his second session. No doubt the idiot advising him had poo poo'd the gradual approach of core strength being built first and balanced bulking from there on. It makes you want to weep sometimes.

I think back to when I was playing. The complete lack of any knowledge of this stuff, even at Llandovery where I played a few games for the youth and then the seconds as a 20 year old, was frightening. I could take or leave playing. I had no ambition to pursue rugby as a career. The nausea I felt before every game was wearing. I could never give training enough priority in my time management. I put the back pain after matches down to stiffness because I wasn't fit enough. In the end it did for my career. I played my last game of rugby when i was 25. But I can't help thinking that somebody who could warm us up AND down (I never warmed down in my playing career) properly and who knew the stretches I needed to do for core strength could have kept me playing a lot longer and to a much higher level.

That why that simple sentence about Connacht is fantastic news in my book.

MrsP wrote:Hi everyone.

Anyone know anything about cars?

We got my car serviced 10 days ago in the place we bought it from a year ago. Today it failed it's MOT because the hand brake only works on one side!

Surely that is something they should have noticed during the service, no?

Yes and no MrsP. It all depends on why only 1 half of the handbrake doesnt work. If its an old car with a cable from the handbrake then they probably should have noticed the wear and possible breakage. If its a newer car with automatic handbrakes then thats almost impossible to tell.

Glas that was what the talk was about. Basically they are screening young players using a variety of tests - the example used was the overhead squat, without resistance -

From that you can determine a lot about specific imbalances - i.e. if the knees angle in or out, the elbows bend or arms tilt to the sides, back doesn't stay parallel to the angle of the shins, ankles raising etc. - incorrect form on these points to different muscle imbalances that need correcting.

Basically if you can't do it 100% perfect then there are real injury risks. It isn't rugby specific either. It is useful for identifying growth spurt problems too.

Apparantly loads of senior players can't do them right and need corrective training. The younger guys coming through are more open to doing the stuff because they are doing these things from the beginning.

It's a 5 year old car.

I just thought that was the sort of thing they should have checked. Of course it is not covered under the warrenty we bought a year ago!!!

Then they really should have noticed it. Ask for the detailed report on what they did. If it was a simple service and tune up, they would not have even checked the breaks.

Thanks William of Orange.



How's about you? Stupid question I know but....what else do you say at times like this to show you care.

Billy