The Dew Drop Inn Virtual Rugby Pub, Trebanog

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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 Trebanog, the home village of Cliff Morgan.

So grab a beer, cider, whiskey or wine.... or a warm beverage and sit back and enjoy the 2013-14 rugby season.

              

The only rule in this pub is one of mutual respect for everyone in it, oh and no tampering with the pictures of the legendary
Cliff Morgan, Dorothy Squires & Esme Coles, Jason Tovey, Aaron Smith and Monterey Jack.  

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Well it's no different to the booing of David Warner in the summer. I was at Old Trafford and the crowd were chanting 'Warner Warner give us a wave' and when he did, they booed him!

It's just pantomime really.

Yeah. Did you see that guy tease KP with an autograph today?

Half the crowd is shocked; the other half in hysterics.
Then the commentators say "...what a fine sportsman KP is... loves to be centre stage, etc"
(the thing is he had a little go at 'Brisbane being inferior to other places in Oz' and there was obviously some banter being carried out back and forth  - about this statement made by KP a couple of days ago.)

It's true though - the crowd deep down really respect his talent... you can see it in their faces. More love than hate.

What happened?

 A student nurse who's been on placement with us finishes today and she's just brought in a tin of Cadbury's Heroes Limited Edition*.  IT'S GOT TOBLERONE IN IT!!!    
 
*other confectionery is available.

Some wag offered his mini bat... but then withdrew it as KP approached the guy from about 10-15m away, near the boundary rope. It was a pretty rude I know but it was also kind of funny the way it was all done. KP then sauntered back to his fielding position as if it was no big deal.

Ha, that is quite funny!

All because he said "Brisbane is far behind the rest of Australia in terms of culture" or something along those lines.

Big match in Glasgow for the Dragons. Do you think they can spring an upset?

No.

We haven't won away yet this season, and Scotstoun's a tough place to go. But you never know!

And all of a sudden it's Friday evening and the working week is done  

Should be doing the ironing really but I'm sacking that in favour of rugby and wine

Evening All  

Just settling in for the Wales v Tonga game on the telly. Hope there's no injuries and the youngsters have good games - especially Amos on his debut.

Evening Cari, hoping for a good game and no more injuries!!

All right Prop.  I hope the ref is decent too - this is his debut Welsh game apparently. Keep a welcome for him boys...

Not keen on the grey by the way...

evening guys

All right CF, what's occurrin'?

 will be happy. The dude who scored the Tongan try is from Wasps. Decent try it was too.

No frills game, no injuries, think the ref ha a very good game

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:We haven't won away yet this season, and Scotstoun's a tough place to go. But you never know!

Anyone seen Lucky? I thought he might have popped in by now.

Great win for the Dragons!

Really hoping Argentina can pull out a big win today. 10 straight defeats, pretty ugly.

Dragons have done us a massive favour- they are quite the dark horse of the Pro12. Already beaten 3 of the 4 teams that made the playoffs last season. Good to see.

Cari wrote:All right CF, what's occurrin'?

 will be happy.  The dude who scored the Tongan try is from Wasps. Decent try it was too.

That was William Helu. He scored a quick fire hat trick on debut for us against Viadana in the Amlin.

Hello folks. I haven't posted for about a week.

Afternoon All  

I'm watching the rugby league semi final England v Kiwis. How odd it is listening to Jiffy get so exicted over England... They're winning at the moment.

What you been up to  ?

I watched a few minutes of it Cari but I just don't get it.

"Clear him out! Why is nobody committing numbers to breakdown! Everybody's stopping now?! I wonder if bargain hunt is on..."

Zebre are beating the Ospreys in Swansea, but they do this a lot; give complacent sides a shock, get ahead and agonisingly lose in the final minutes. So I'm not getting too excited just yet...

I've not been up to much Cari, other than giving the house a bit of a going over. Oh, and meeting up with some of the London crew on Wednesday night.

Off to watch Wasps v Bath tomorrow. I'm peed off that it's been switched to Sunday as I was intending to watch Ealing v L. Scottish tomorrow.

Then we're off to the Dubai 7s on Tuesday.

You were right Notch - O's won it 30-20. We need the Blues to do us a favour and beat Munster now so we can stay top.

Tsk! I turn over to BBC 2 to watch the Scotland game and what's on? Fecking F1. It's only the qualifier and you can't see much due to the poor weather conditions anyway. I thought F1 had its own channel these days? Every blydi year some other sport interrupts the autumn internationals. Thank gawd for the internet is all I can say.

Cari wrote:All right CF, what's occurrin'?

 will be happy.  The dude who scored the Tongan try is from Wasps. Decent try it was too.

hey   bit of a late reply sorry :P

how is everyone this evening?

A night out with the girls. Pizza and cake and chat and wine  

All is still far from right with the world but somehow it feels more bearable now, you just can't beat your bezzies .  Actually, I hate that word, but it'll do for now.

Linebreaker wrote:

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:We haven't won away yet this season, and Scotstoun's a tough place to go. But you never know!

Anyone seen Lucky? I thought he might have popped in by now.

Great win for the Dragons!

Hell of a place to break our away-win duck! I'm looking forward to watching the (brief) highlights on Scrum V later - the BBC match report says it was a 'scrappy' win, and we picked up three yellow cards, but who gives a chuff?

 

There's highlights on the Rabo YouTube site Lucky. Great win. Tovey's boot was decent. Couple of great kicks for such a shortened run up (one touch line on his wrong side and one pretty long range). Will's try nice too. Reminiscent of the old Tovey Brew combo.

Here. It did say Ulster v Embra, but it ain't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaAIQeLWczs&list=PLclPnIJd8nRu1Mum_eDSJbc-MO3e-u8Mk

Camera makes Leach's hit look bad, but it might not be that clear cut as you can't really see how he lifted him etc (or I couldn't on my phone).

Great result Dragons- crazy that Glasgow failed to capitalise on all those cards!

As in it's possible one hit low, one hit high and it was a little bit momentum. I don't know. Like I said, it was Pat's first game back and he probably wanted to make a statement, what with being our defensive leader and that. I doubt he had malicious intentions.

You're right, Rev, there were two men in the tackle. Could have been a yellow for each of them, so I won't complain.

I keep forgetting about the Pro12 channel on YouTube. I don't want to split hairs, but would it have killed the voiceover man to use the definite article? And who's Matt Harries? But it was a beauty of a conversion from the left touchline.

He has at least stopped calling Tovey, Toevey but he still isn't quite there.

littleswannygirl wrote:A night out with the girls. Pizza and cake and chat and wine  

All is still far from right with the world but somehow it feels more bearable now, you just can't beat your bezzies .  Actually, I hate that word, but it'll do for now.

True that Swanny. Can't fault being with those you love especially when things are rubbishy. Hope you're all right  

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:

Linebreaker wrote:

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:We haven't won away yet this season, and Scotstoun's a tough place to go. But you never know!

Anyone seen Lucky? I thought he might have popped in by now.

Great win for the Dragons!

Hell of a place to break our away-win duck! I'm looking forward to watching the (brief) highlights on Scrum V later - the BBC match report says it was a 'scrappy' win, and we picked up three yellow cards, but who gives a chuff?

 

Nothing wrong with a scrappy win. Take them when you can. It's funny how we were talking about a possible upset though.  

The Wallabies are on a mini-run at the moment... but I thought the back-ups for the 'banned' players did a good job against Scotland.
It was a slightly risky thing to do from Ewen McKenzie but I'm just relieved that we got through that match in decent shape.

Hopefully, we'll field a stronger, more experienced team against Wales with some of those youngsters getting rewarded with a bench spot.

Nice wins in the cricket and RLWC.
So good things do come in 3s sometimes!  

afternoon everyone

Afternoon CF.

Blimey!! What a start to this game! <rubbingeyesindisbelief>

Cari, thank you  Yeah I'm ok, just schitty things happening to people I care about, one after another. Wish it'd stop!

Kearney! Wow! <blinkingfuriouslynow>

afternoon, swanny, how are you?

If Ireland hold out till 60 mins I reckon they've got this game.

I'm good thanks CF, just shouting at the telly a lot right now! Cannot believe this game!

I really hope they can Prop, I fear I shall be watching the last 10 minutes from behind a cushion!

This is getting too close!!

Indeed! I've sacked the cushion, I'm watching from behind the sofa now! Less than 5 minutes to go, c'mon Ireland!!

I can't watch this now!!

Arrrgh!

What a match!!

Can't believe it

Absolutely gutted. It ended almost like the league match yesterday and I feared that happening before the final Kiwi try.

This will take a while for the irish side to get over psycholgially. Huge crushing blow that try.

Just saw the first N.Z try in the league match yesterday......what an offload for the try!!!!

Well. That was a roller-coaster of an afternoon. The disappointing end was delayed somewhat for us as we had unexpected visitors so the telly went off till they left. We had an extra houror so of believing we had eventually done it!

What a performance from the lads. What a turn around from last week.

The looks on the faces of the Irish players during the anthems was enough of an indication for me that we would not be having a repeat of last week's abject display.

So disappointed for them.