The Dew Drop Inn Virtual Rugby Pub

First topic message reminder :

Welcome all to the new pub. Hopefully the traditions from the last 606 will continue here in our new home. The only new rule I have really is, see that Tommy Bowe signed picture there above the bar? If anyone defaces that, they're barred. There'll be banter, indepth discussion, some rambling but above all mutual respect as always. It all looks very swish, but we still serve traditional beverages and food. So what'll it be?

Oh if you have any complaints by the way, don't look at me - speak to rugbydreamer cause she's a mod!





Now to fire up the jukebox...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98W9QuMq-2k

Guys hate to tell you but it was actually sickado who was dropping his guts constantly! And most of the time it was by me!!

heres the 606v2 twitter feed:

http://twitter.com/#!/606v2rugby

Follow it please!

Evening all. Was in earlier but got called away. Notch I think that new Ulster top is class. A touch of fluorescent orange would go amiss though. Are you doing your Ravenhill Review of the year on v2?

Just in from an hour of football in the bucketing rain and driving wind. I come out of the shower less wet.

I am following it Hobo, just don't really understand all the @ and # stuff. If I tweet something and put @(somebodies name) in it, do they see it even if they don't 'follow' me?

Oi Hobo, go and clean the toilets. BOD has been in and there is a log jam in the middle cubicle. I don't know, mutter, mutter.

If you post something (Tweet) only people following you will see it.

However, if you put there address first ie @606v2rugby its like sending that person the message. Think of it like a email. Your followers wont see it.

If you retweet someone elses tweet, you are forwarding their message on to your followers.

So what you want to try and achieve is to send an email to someone (by using the @.....) and get them to retweet it to their followers (abbreviated to RT).

So for example, I sent Shane Williams the greatest ever winger poll and asked him to RT it. He did - the poll was then sent to all 18000 people who follow him.

As people saw the message and who it originated from, they either joined here to vote or started to follow me as well. I now have 83 followers - anything I tweet (posts without a @...), gets sent to these 83 people now.

Bit long winded but hope that helps!

Pete I joined it literally because I got emails from people who were reading my blog and asked if I would. Its the stupidest thing I've encountered.

Hobo, I was talking to Cari at the weekend and I was saying to her that I didn't think you were real Genuinely I thought you were just instant messaging updates from the forum!!

Cheers fir that Hobo mate, bit clearer now.

It is all a bit odd though. Interesting reading some people's tweets though. Am following Dara O'Briain, he posts some funny stuff.

So now you know - I am "the stupidest thing Stag has encountered".

No its not instant - its a lot of bloody work! The admin team are working tirelessly to get new members.

The rugby board has got busier and still is - I just hope it continues.

we are without a doubt the most forward thinking of the sites with what we are doing on here - its just a shame that some people are so used to the familiarity of 606 and have gone to ja606.

Have you all seen the news feed at the top of the page?

Hobo, just had a look at your feed, and was piqued enough to start signing up. But someone's already taken "kiwireddevil" as a username , so I may have to sulk about it for a while

Hobo wrote:So now you know - I am "the stupidest thing Stag has encountered".

No no no. Not you Twitter. Its basically just Facebook statuses.

I know its early but you know what I prefer this to old 606. I can do a lot more with the posts in terms of formatting, linking etc - stuff I've not even tried. The threads outside of the pub are free from Wums and actually generate debates.

Evening peeps. On the road to recovery after that weekend. No beer for a few days I think. I hope everyone got home without mishap, though the ferry back to Ireland didn't sound like a barrel of laughs.

Yeah, I'm with Stag on this, good work Hobo, am really liking the new site.

Is it bad i'm cracking open a cider......

I nearly opened a bottle of rum earlier, but decided on a cup of tea and some biscuits. Does that mean I am getting old?

Howya Hound, what do you reckon to Wasps getting Wentzel? Looks like a good signing to me.

For t'wall:

https://www.606v2.com/t5449-oi-hobo#119855

Hound! How did work go today? Did it turn into a bender yesterday then?

WillyGilly wrote:Evening all. Was in earlier but got called away. Notch I think that new Ulster top is class. A touch of fluorescent orange would go amiss though. Are you doing your Ravenhill Review of the year on v2?

Just in from an hour of football in the bucketing rain and driving wind. I come out of the shower less wet.

Willy I think I will but not until Saturday at the earliest. Busy with the last week of Uni right now.

Wentzel could be a good signing, but we need to strengthen the front row. Or at least see Trevor Woodman earning his corn by teaching the front rowers we do have to scrummage a lot better.

Looking forward to seeing how Nicky Robinson does as well. Plus the further development of youngsters like Jack Wallace, Will Matthews and Joe Launchbury.

ULSTER RUGBY

[color=red]thanks prop for standing up for me pal. I don't fart in public.

Pete I'm on twitter. I am also studying the concept of social media for work. It most certainly isn't stupid and if used right is powerful. it is used stupidly sometimes (I don't really use it other than to view famous people)

People promoting stuff it's ideal to be able to give synopsis of links, blogs to entice people to click to your facebook or website etc.

I use twitter. But I don't tweet very much.

I'm just using it for keeping abreast of what's going on in the celeb world really Mick. I guess it's only good for actually tweeting if you are selling/promoting something or if you are famous and have lots of people 'following' you.

Hound, I've heard good things about Launchbury, do you reckon he could be the real deal?

Yes for that kinda of thing it is convenient but I mean for normal people

[quote="LDCPete"]I'm just using it for keeping abreast of what's going on in the celeb world really Mick. [\quote]

Cor, this new colour toy is really good for adding appropriate emphasis!

My brother sells animal health products and he uses Facebook for promotional purposes. He says it's quite good. He has his own account and the products have their accounts. If your subtle enough you can keep a presence without getting on people's nerves. I'd rather see a facebook advert than a flier any day.

Ha ye how. Come we have only discovered the colours?

Ye pete I'm the exact same.

nos da pawb :run1:

prop_lyd wrote:Guys hate to tell you but it was actually sickado who was dropping his guts constantly! And most of the time it was by me!!

So Micky T was right when he said really doesn't fart in public! I'm relieved they didn't stay at my house now...

Morning All!

Managed to get up for work. Not sure whether I'll manage to do any work later though.

Looks like the ash cloud is causing chaos already. Just as well the lads flew back to Dublin the other day.

Morning. I had booked the day off yesterday Glas, mainly to sort out the domestic stuff that didn't get done over the weekend.

To answer Pete from last night - Launchbury is a fine prospect, but that's all at the moment. He needs his game time managed. Staying injury free would help too; then again, as a squad Wasps picked up an awful lot of injuries in the second half of the season.

I've said before, having captain Tom Rees back will be a huge boost and also vice captain Rob Webber. A line up I would like to see given a chance at the start of next season would be

Wallace, Wade, Waldouck, Flutey, Varndell, Robinson, Simpson.

Taulafo, Webber, Broster, Shaw (or Birkett), Launchbury, Worsley, Rees, Ward-Smith.

We can then also use the likes of Payne, Lindsay, Cannon, Hart, Berry, Jewell and Daly. However squad depth will be a major concern again.

Good man Hound.

Do you find Wales and Wasps fortunes reflecting each others?

Bore da by the way. Cymruambyth!

Hound, I was looking up Wasps' motto and this is the closest I got: "London Wasps fully supports the principle of equal opportunities and opposes all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination on the grounds of disability."

Is there a more catchy one?

Morning all.

Just pressed the snooze button on my alarm and now have five more minutes before I have to get up.

How are we all doing today.

Dreading work today but more dreading tomorrow where I've a conference with accountants to attend and speak at as well as a trip the dentist after that

bean counters and tooth pullers in one day! Argh!

Idea of heaven ain't it GLAS?

Dreading it so I am

Bore da pawb / good morning all.

Is it just me who finds it strange to be posting before nine o'clock?

Morning all

http://www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/
http://www.irishtimes.com/sports/rugby/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport?mobile-redirect=false
http://sport.scotsman.com/rugby
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/rugby/
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/rugbynation/


http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby/news/headlines.cfm?c_id=80
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union

luckless_pedestrian wrote:Bore da pawb / good morning all.

Is it just me who finds it strange to be posting before nine o'clock?

Kia ora, mauri ora all.

I agree lucky. 'tis good though.

I have to race out the door in a minute and my FB photo upload from Friday and Saturday still has 11 minutes to run . I'm leaving the machine on, but don't know if they'll show up until I get home tonight to finish the process. And I didn't even try to load the 7s pics from Saturday.

Marnin all. Been up 3 hours already Gotta love these 12 hr shifts....

I see the Irish Star's headline is "Believe"(with a picture of Barack!).Stealing Gibbo's thoughts are they?

Just flicking through bits and pieces, it seems O'bamas visit was a huge success yeah

Oh, and happy birthday, Robert Zimmerman

Morning everyone. Really looking forward to the playoff at weekend. Playoffs were best thing to ever happen Magners League. I didn't give a fiddlers last time we won Magners League it lacked a sense of occasion.

Here's a question. Have we less need for the Pub on this forum than on 606?

Staggy - are you asking that because we've all met up now and can keep in touch with each other by other means? Or because of the way this site is set up?

Back in the office. My inbox is over the the limit, and I've a pile of things on my desk, but I feel surprisingly chirpy considering. At least I've a four day week now, and a three day week next week. Sadly more staff are leaving us. They've begun another Early Departure Scheme. It sucks

Morning all! Glos have signed Matais Cortese, apparently he can play anywhere on the front row and played for saints a while ago. Anyone know anything else? Seems to be in the Ollie mould.

Cari - several reasons. 1) We all use the Facebook a a means of keeping in touch, posting videos, posting links and having non rugby chats. 2) There are no wums and good moderators on this site. On of the main reasons I used the pub was talking about rugby stuff to mates without the risk of wums. 3) Having a discussion about (for example) who played better in the HEC Final in the pub is great but will it take away from the rest of a very young board.

Oh an article - https://www.606v2.com/t5464-is-mallinder-jealous-of-magners-set-up#120223

red_stag wrote:Cari - several reasons. 1) We all use the Facebook a a means of keeping in touch, posting videos, posting links and having non rugby chats. 2) There are no wums and good moderators on this site. On of the main reasons I used the pub was talking about rugby stuff to mates without the risk of wums. 3) Having a discussion about (for example) who played better in the HEC Final in the pub is great but will it take away from the rest of a very young board.

Oh an article - https://www.606v2.com/t5464-is-mallinder-jealous-of-magners-set-up#120223

Quite you or ill have to batter you we will have less of that talk around here thank you

Stag - I hope you dont mind but I took out the first line of your article about WUMs as I tweeted the link out and I thougt it might look bad to potential new members.

Hope you dont mind - its not usually an issue but I wanted to use it as a feature article on Twitter!

No bother at all hobo. Ah no i'm not saying disband the pub just i'm definitly gonna make more effort to post about rugby related stuff outside pub and use the pub for talking about our usual random discussions

like your favourite way to cure a hangover. Huggie i'm looking at you as you've most experience