The Corso Marauders Dew Drop Inn Virtual Rugby Pub, Amsterdam

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 Amsterdam in honour of original publican Gibson who is finally back in gainful employment. One small step for man ...

The only rule in this pub is one of mutual respect for everyone in it, oh and no tampering with the pictures of former Corso Marauder Lawrence Dallaglio or young ice hockey prize winner (thanks to the v2ers) Chris Boyd.



Old pub https://www.606v2.com/t34157p950-the-dew-drop-inn-virtual-rugby-pub-sea-of-tranquility-luna#1518392

Spoiler:

Maaaaark!



Stag - we are two seasons away from challenging for serious honours.





The LV and Amlin.

Stag,

Dan Evans scored two and made one. Cracking boot on him too. Tuilagi was good again (his run in looked more convincing on tv, as it looked like he struggled from the stand), our other centre Pat Leach was MOTM, Jon Evans (our young 9) would've been my vote for Seren Y Gem and obviously the two main guys were decent.

First 40 everybody played well. Good to see some ferocity back.

Dragons seriously know how to work Rodney Parade. You're right about the double header hurting them Rev.

Hound yes although you nearly got relegated last year so its a massive step. Top 6 should (could) be achieved this season.

Mark. Thanks Kiwi.
Gargle that throat with some of that Scottish cooking liquid

Stag - I was impressed by a lot of what I saw on Sat. I could not believe what I was watching for the first 50 minutes after last season. But the frailties of last season came to the fore. We panicked and kicked possession away after the charge down try. DY's substitutions made no sense either.

No one will convince me that Haskell and Masi didn't have at least another 10 minutes in them (especially Haskell). With those two on I believe we would have closed out the game.

Lessons to be learned, but most Wasps fans were delighted with some of the stuff we played. There were some very measured comments on the Drunken Wasps website.

One for the English regulars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_aI2wGsxZU

Woken up early by a parrot on my window sill early this morning. What a nerve!

Thank goodness we scraped home against Pakistan in the "Cool & Cool" ODI series. That young Glenn Maxwell shows no fear. Ridiculously hot there in Sharjah. 45 degrees C at 'kick off'.

Kiwi, doing the ITM picks now. Hope the throat and cough settles down mate.

It's official, my "home town" has a golden postbox courtesy of Eleanor Simmonds. It's not so much of a town as "an area" (Aldridge) in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall; but whichever ways you call it, I'm going to have my photo taken next to it in the High Street tomorrow morning.

Before the Pikeys get wind of it and weigh it in...

Just seen Wheelchair basketball live. Great atmosphere, interesting and fairly brutal sport at times. Supported SA and USA. Latter won against Spain, former lost to Turkey. The US Spain game was a thriller

Aaahh a pub close to home but is that a good thing? I am always awake early so will probably have a full time job filling Gibbo with coffee and getting him off to work on time

Morning all

PJHolybloke wrote:It's official, my "home town" has a golden postbox courtesy of Eleanor Simmonds.

I thought she was Welsh?

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:

PJHolybloke wrote:It's official, my "home town" has a golden postbox courtesy of Eleanor Simmonds.

I thought she was Welsh?

She trains in Swansea, her parents downsized their home in Walsall and bought a 2nd home close to good coaching. So she lives Monday-Friday in Wales for school and training and goes home on the weekend

So it's a typical case of the Welsh trying to claim someone else's glory then.

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:So it's a typical case of the Welsh trying to claim someone else's glory then.

The Welsh and everyone else mate

Good morning everyone. Lovely sunny day in Belfast. I'll have a and two parrotseatemall for my stiff neck.
Shouldn't have chewed the little blue pill

Poor girl, she gets to leave Walsall to spend time in Swansea!

Morning all &

Gib, delighted to hear that your first day back went smoothly

Additional tickets booked for Exeter Chiefs vs ASM Clermont - our first home Heino game - v excited.

Good Morning all.

For Dreamer:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-04/new-penguin-chicks-in-sydney-harbour/4242532

Gatland has been appointed Head Coach of the Lions. Gotta say... I didn't see that coming

Are you happy with that Notch and other Regs?

Seems like the logical appointment to me and I wish him (relative) success but not too much obviously!

Anyone else see Graham Rowentree, Rob Howley and Shaun Edwards being the rest of the team.

Regular nostradamus I am!

red_stag wrote:Anyone else see Graham Rowentree, Rob Howley and Shaun Edwards being the rest of the team.

Regular nostradamus I am!

I won't be happy with the Howley decision tbh

I dont think anyone will be. He's useless and the weak link in the Welsh team.

I think it's bad enough that Howley's on the national coaching team despite having no previous coaching experience, but for him to be appointed backs coach for the 2013 Lions just because he's 'in' with Gatland would actually be a disgrace. We (or Andy Irvine or whoever) should be picking the best available, be it coaches or players, and it would be hard to argue that Howley is the best available.

Here here!

Lions Back Coach = Joe Schmidt

He is probably the best choice Penfro.

No arguments from me there, Penfro. I would kill for Wales to have the kind of threat that Leinster have behind the scrum. The power game is all well and good, but I haven't seen much evidence that Howley has anything more than that to offer. Apart from telling his players to kick the ball away. Oh, and singling out players for public post-match criticism, that's always good to have.

Pete C (Kiwireddevil) wrote:

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:

PJHolybloke wrote:It's official, my "home town" has a golden postbox courtesy of Eleanor Simmonds.

I thought she was Welsh?

She trains in Swansea, her parents downsized their home in Walsall and bought a 2nd home close to good coaching. So she lives Monday-Friday in Wales for school and training and goes home on the weekend

Check out Pete, the font of all sporting knowledge!

They "downsized" from an 8 bed.3 storey Georgian mansion house to a modern 6 bed 3 bathroom house on a small development down the road. Hardly slumming it.

She's retiring after the Olympics so I guess we'll be seeing a lot more of her soon enough... or maybe not.

Linebreaker wrote:Good Morning all.

For Dreamer:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-04/new-penguin-chicks-in-sydney-harbour/4242532

Ellie Simmonds is also getting a post box painted Gold in Swansea.

red_stag wrote:Anyone else see Graham Rowentree, Rob Howley and Shaun Edwards being the rest of the team.

Regular nostradamus I am!

Oi. No stealing my moniker Stag.

I think Gatland is a terrible appointment, I really do.

That job had Connor O Shea written all over it.

Glas a du wrote:I think Gatland is a terrible appointment, I really do.

That job had Connor O Shea written all over it.

Connor is off-limits

Evening

I thought Gatland's appointment was a given TBH. Just waiting for the PR people to make it all "official".

Got my ticket for Saturday, and I've a cracking seat. I mean it's a good spot, not that the seat needs replacing....

Good afternoon/evening all!!! Had an amazing time in America and got back into the u.k at 10am this morning....off to rugby training in a bit which could be interesting!!

Welcome home Prop Glad you didn't get blown away...did you manage to avoid the rotten weather? Aren't you jet lagged too?

A bit jet lagged..........I was in naples so got the side of hurricane issac which was intersting

Hmmm by "interesting" do you mean very scary? Glad you're all right anyway and enjoyed your hols.

Nah just very wet to be honest!!

Cari wrote:Evening

I thought Gatland's appointment was a given TBH. Just waiting for the PR people to make it all "official".

Got my ticket for Saturday, and I've a cracking seat. I mean it's a good spot, not that the seat needs replacing....

You're right. Still the wrong man.

It's a lovely part of the world isn't it Prop? So many different things to enjoy down there from the Theme Parks to the everglades to shooting ranges (they are fun as hell) and well there's probably a sport which will tickle your fancy, they plugged the rugby team often in an area I was in strangely.

Evening all, welcome back Prop, glad that you had a good time

A little something on the jukebox to kick off this evening's musical treat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghb6eDopW8I

Nice to hear you're back safe and sound Prop. I'll keep you a cold for after training, re-hydration is very important.

I'm feeling Kinky Asbo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXMES9OcSIc

PJHolybloke wrote:Nice to hear you're back safe and sound Prop. I'll keep you a cold for after training, re-hydration is very important.

I'm feeling Kinky, Asbo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXMES9OcSIc

Ah the 90's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syBtO1r6mZM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

You must have good recovery skills prop, or didn't really alter your body clock from all your nights out, as it took me a few days to recover from Calgary.

Jessie

At least he's a BIG Jessie.

Evening pub.

Rev: I just have no brain cells!!

PJ: I've got my now, they don't seem to have it over there!!

T: Yeah an amazing area....photos should be up by tomorrow.

ASBO: Cheers fella, great start for Exeter with Budgie getting a try too!!