The Dew Drop Inn Virtual Rugby Walkabout, Covent Garden

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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 original Walkabout pub in London's Covent Garden, as it is set to close its doors at the end of the month.

The only rule in this pub is one of mutual respect for everyone in it, oh and no tampering with the pictures of Mark Ella or recent birthday boys Gibson and Glas a du above the bar.




Last Pub: https://www.606v2.com/t40864-the-dew-drop-inn-virtual-rugby-pub-come-by-chance

prop_lyd wrote:If you are there the week after gibbo I will kiss your feet and mrsprop will dance for you!!

Ah Jayzuz Prop, that could even come close to de Rev dance for Mrs Rev, in Cardiff. I fell in lust with him at that very moment.

I can dance better!! In Dublin on 25-27th may....be there!!

One for the wall

https://www.606v2.com/t42784-toy-soldiers

Afternoon All

Just listening to The Goon Show on the iPlayer - The Great Ink Shortage of 1902.

Afternoon Cari. Love the Goon's kind of humour. I'll see if I can find that one on YouTube.
How's your day been so far? Lazy Sunday morning?

It's now only 9 hours difference between GMT and AEST - we turned the clocks back an hour this morning.

I'm watching the Paris-Roubaix... cobbles & dust.

Tossing up whether I should get Setanta for the HEC Quarter finals or try and watch it on a stream. Such a pain when they have most of the T14 games on another channel but not the bloody HEC!

T minus 107 minutes...

And I'm rocking a massive hangover

Good luck CJ.

...and the Munster regs too.

Think I tipped Quins by 7; Toulon by 13. Don't ask me how I arrived at those numbers!

Ta mate, think we should win but nervous nonetheless

You should win CJ, but those are the odds Munster love

Sorry Breaker, went to make lunch there. Just a lazy Sunday, yeah. Peace before the week starts again...at least I have another four day week anyway.

I'm not watching the Quins/Munster game, but good luck to the supporting regs.

No Tommy, no watchy?

Linebreaker wrote:No Tommy, no watchy?

No I just can't be arrsed setting up my PC for a live stream.

Yeah Cari, it's a hassle I know.

Just got on... saw a bit of the Sky preview... then it sort of conks out.
Do you configure anything on the PC or just click the stream with the most stars?

the Al Jazeera one seems OK. Thanks be to Allah!

Who'd bet against an all French final? ROG that's who...

Good win, surprising as it was, Munster's pack haven't played that well in god knows how long. Super display, was talking with DOD on the mathday thread on Friday, all my concerns were basically answered and then some.

We need a big day from our pack to do it, it's possible, there's a lot to like about the forwards but even when they play well they don't seem to get the dominance the teams of old had, in a one of game it's possible, ROG's distance is pretty shot but he is still pretty accurate from hand, the lineout is a tricky one, Ryan and POC haven't played together since Racing Metro, hard for Sherry to get used to the both but POM being there might help a bit.

Should be interesting no matter what happens.

POC and ROG. Two man team, but what a pair...

ROG's kicking was accurate but what people won't give credit to is the kick chase, I don't know if I have seen it better executed by anyone that was superb stuff. Balance in the backrow is key, Munster's aren't big names but they work in unison and can fill a number of roles. Nick Williams was a luxury yesterday when Henry was doing it all on his own with Best and Henderson ineffective.

for Thom!

Haven't been in the virtual inn for ages!

Hey guys.

Congrats Thomond/Stag for the Munster win! Now do us all a favour and win the whole thing!

Gutted

Those Munster persons thinking of coming over for the slaughter,hurry up;Ryanair have already increased their fares(Shannon/Montpellier) by 600%

I'm going out on a limb. I think Munster will win in France.

They are like Orr in Catch 22.

A teenager who became Britain's first youth police and crime commissioner (PCC) has apologised for her "inappropriate" comments on Twitter.

Paris Brown, 17, was appointed to work alongside Kent's Independent PCC Ann Barnes representing young people across the county last week.

Paris said she was "wildly exaggerating" in what could have been considered racist and anti-gay tweets.

In a statement, Paris said she was "not homophobic, racist or violent and am against the taking of drugs".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-22057246

Here's a tip, Paris: if you're not homophobic or racist, don't say things that are homophobic or racist.

Just announced that Margaret Thatcher has passed away. Facebook and twitter are about to implode...

Big news.

Wow that is news. Not a fan of the Iron lady but RIP anyways I suppose.

That's it, Rodders. Whatever anyone thinks of her policies, there's no denying the impact she had.

Thatcher is dead?

.................... Now there was a lady with balls. And no matter what anyone says against her in the coming days...they'll never take that away from her. The most Iconic British Prime Minister since Churchill.

It's an amazing story really, when you think how male-dominated politics was, for this grocer's daughter to become leader of her party and then of the country.

She was one ruthless mo-fiecer all right. Modern britain, good and bad, I think is still very much a direct product of her reign and every prime minister whos followed has been desperate to emulate her.

Personally I think the whole things is and was an omnishambles hut hey ho you can't knock someone for trying I suppose.

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:It's an amazing story really, when you think how male-dominated politics was, for this grocer's daughter to become leader of THAT party and then of the country.

Fixed

Afternoon all.

Great catching up with Hughie, Stag, Rava, Asbo & hangers-on yesterday. Though the whole weekend has left my liver reeling


Ozzy/Glas, do either or both of you fancy doing a podcast tomorrow? Stag is available too.

I'm thinking HEC quarters, a little on the WRU/Regions stoush, plus maybe some Super rugby if there's time.

Aye.

Pete C (Kiwireddevil) wrote:Afternoon all.

Great catching up with Hughie, Stag, Rava, Asbo & hangers-on yesterday. Though the whole weekend has left my liver reeling

Welcome to Heino q/f weekend.

I've just met stag and his brother before they fly back to Ireland. They seemed in remarkably good shape considering.

Is there anything worse than a soap opera stag do/hen do

Blydi Eastenders...

The last time I watched Eastenders was the evening of the day my brothers-in-law and I climbed Ben Nevis. The script was so unrealistic it was funny.
That evening I had a prawn jalfrezi from the Mount Everest takeaway in Fort William, which is one of the best curries I've ever had. Bit far to ask them to deliver here, though.

Bore da pawb / good morning all.

Bore da. Eastenders is the price I have to pay for watching a bit of rugby.

Presumably Scrum V will be showing Scarlets v Glasgow on Friday. No offence, Glas, but I'm a bit of a Glasgow fan these days - ever since they trounced us, actually. I've watched them on BBC Alba and they play a great brand of rugby.

BBC 2 Northern Ireland are showing Ulster v Dragons, but I think I can only get BBC 1 Northern Ireland.

Glas a du wrote:Aye.

Cool, we'll aim for 8

How extraordinary that Gerry Kelly can, without any apparent sense of irony, accuse Mrs Thatcher of operating a shoot to kill policy.

Incredible:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-22078883

To think most farmers think gorse is a pain in the arse!

In other news, the Government is consulting on proposed changes to criminal legal aid which would see four firms respionsible for all of the police station and magistrates court work in Dyfed Powys

It'll be fine Glas, Dyfed-Powys is such a small area geographically...

WillyGilly wrote:How extraordinary that Gerry Kelly can, without any apparent sense of irony, accuse Mrs Thatcher of operating a shoot to kill policy.

It is not untrue? Both sides were pretty cut-throat at that time. The woman probably added 10 years to the troubles. She had a knack for creating martyrs and alienating communities.

You can complain about Gerry Kelly, but Thatchers hard line on the troubles is one of the main things that brought Sinn Fein into mainstream politics. Like Ian Paisley, she was invaluable propaganda for the republican cause.

Do clubs in Wales have U20 or U21 teams?

At least Thatcher wrecked the place because she thought she was doing a good turn.....

Blair and Cameron did it to copy Thatcher......