The Dew Drop Inn Virtual Rugby Pub

First topic message reminder :

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 only rule in this pub is one of mutual respect for everyone in it, oh and no defacing the Tommy Bowe photo on the bar. That's a banning offence

So pull up a chair....what'll it be?

Link to the last Pub https://www.606v2.com/t8339-the-dew-dropshot-inn-virtual-rugby-pub#236042

rugbydreamer wrote:

Team Sky have had a disastrous day though...

Don't get me started on that again!

ah sorry Glas. I shall name it Team Wiggins&Thomas instead, although now it's just Team Thomas

luckless_pedestrian wrote:I can see that, Kiwi, but becoming Prime Minister isn't something that suddenly happens to you. Usually they compare the odds of winning the lottery with the odds of a donkey falling on your head or something.

Sorry, my scorn for journalists' ability to correctly use statistics didn't quite come through in my post

You've rectified that now, Kiwi!

Rev. Understand mate. As, will give you a great time down there. Its his forte.

Glas,
You're as bad as me. Have I met my match here?

Melt them down for pills and soap.

Down with this sorta ting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT9xuXQjxMM

Careful now...

I don't very often miss my old job, but when an ex-workmate posts pics of the Friday drinks trolley on Twitter

Love the new Smileys, Kiwi. Mick the Chef, Hound of Harrow and Gibbo!!

Not even a hint of a though Rava... it's going to be very irritating having to always go and find the URL when it could just be added to the other emoticons

Notch wrote:Not even a hint of a :redhand: though Rava... it's going to be very irritating having to always go and find the URL when it could just be added to the other emoticons

:redhand:
Don't blame me if it gets voted out.

Leinster says NO!

Kiwireddevil wrote:

Notch wrote:Not even a hint of a :redhand: though Rava... it's going to be very irritating having to always go and find the URL when it could just be added to the other emoticons

:redhand:
Don't blame me if it gets voted out.

But why? It's the traditional emblem of Ulster Rugby, Tyrone GAA etc.

Spoiler:

Look at the shirts.

Passed first year and got some decent results at the end I wasn't expecting.

Spoiler:

Good stuff, Munsty. Is your first year pass or fail, or will your marks count towards your final degree classification?

Good stuff Munsty. Have a to celebrate.

Notch. It's cool. Fionn McCool.

:redhand:

Amazing break for my little brother. He's passed an interview with a major news website as a rugby correspondent and analyst. Part time and he can fit it around his studies. He's chuffed but its nowhere near set in stone.

Wow, that would be awesome for him, Stag. It knocks Munsty's news into a cocked hat!

Message Stag.

Thanks everyone. I kind of knew I passed anyway but there were one or two results which really shocked me. One in particular was an English module which I was kind of struggling with having only gotten passes in the first two assignments then in the last one I got a first!

London vs Waterford in the All-Ireland Football. Brilliant. London in new territory. Round 2. Hope they win. Be a huge lift for GAA over there.

World Series?

Gibbo London and NY have had teams in the All Ireland for years I thought.

You're my hero Munsty.

Stag,they have but London hadn't won a match for 30 odd years up to a few weeks ago I think.

Risca Rev wrote:You're my hero Munsty.

+1

Thomond

Who is eligible to play for London?

Anyone. As long as you live in England. Sure there are no real eligibility rules in GAA. I think that two fellas on the Cork team in the 90s played for Kildare. I think as long as you live or work in the area you can play for them.


According to fellas on the GAA board,there are 2 fellas from last year's Kerry panel on the team and several others who have been on panels or are Championshp standard.

Emigration is sending decent GAA players to UK

Stag,I asked on the GAA boards if there was an Australia GAA team or Sydney,Perth etc but doesn't seem to be. While it wouldn't be financially feasible , you could probably field a solid team considering the numbers emitgrating there. Throw in a few irish fellas who play Aussie Rules and you're sorted!

I always wondered about eligibility in GAA. Never heard any complaints though.

There's no Welshmen in the Cardiff GAA team

I've got to sit at a PC I was falling asleep on the sofa and it's only 7 o'clock!

Well done on the first year results Munsty

You'd have to be Irish though, would you?

Yeah they're all Irishmen Lucky. I mean I don't think they're from the local area like proper GAA (hark at me..."proper" GAA you know what I meant!).

Ha, actually I don't! I probably know more about kabaddi than I do about the GAA sports.

I meant like those based in Ireland who tend to play for the clubs in the county they were born/grew up in. Not sure what the requirement would be for teams based over here...or at least there doesn't seem to be one.

Sorry Cari, I'm still working - wasted too much time looking up smileys after lunch

As far as GAA eligibility goes, things tend to be looser for amateur sports - a move of town is much more likely to be for non-sporting reasons.

I do like that tumbleweed emoticon!

So are all your family from out west, Cari?

I wasn't expecting a reply Kiwi, that tumbleweed's handy when it goes quiet I do like it.

Lucky - not really, my mum's from Austria and her family are from the former Yugoslavia. She was brought up in Fishguard though from baby age. All my dad's side are from Cardiff via the West Country and Dublin My sister was born in West Wales though.

Right, I'm off home

Ka kite ano all

Ka nitty koo wossnames to you Kiwi

I won't be far behind I'm boogered today. Back to the Diff tomorrow.

Think I'll head off here now then.

You're more exotic than I am, Cari. I'm just a son of a Gog with some Irish somewhere along the way!

I'm West Wales with a touch of Scot and...(shudder)...South Pembrokeshire.

She's a little bit Country ... I'm a little bit Rock & Roll.

I'm West Wales with a bit of London, Caerphilly and Dublin. Something like that anyway.

The touch of Scot explains your Nesbitian tendencies, Glas...

My granny's entitled to wear Sutherland tartan, apparently. I'm entitled to wear a look of shame.

Rava wrote:

Love the new Smileys, Kiwi. Mick the Chef, Hound of Harrow and Gibbo!!

P1ssed myself laughing when I saw that

Sorry Gibbo



Arf arf!

Evening all

How's tricks, Hound?

Dreamer,
English/Irish Welsh Rarebit?

5 generations Dublin. Except for my English-born grandad (Dads side) who fought at the Somme. As did my Mams Da.

I'm a Brit.

Nightmare.

Gibbo, for your grandfathers to have survived the Somme is a hell of a thing. You must be destined for greatness! Or establishing a virtual pub, one or the other.