: Thu May 07, 2009 8:39 pm  

tad rhino wrote:

we had a great weekend. edinburgh has so much to offer tourist wise, shame the rugby got in the way,although it gave the women a chance to go shopping.

already booked for next year

Us too. Think that a lot of the rooms are already booked for next year. We are closer in though next year so are very pleased.

: Thu May 07, 2009 10:45 pm  

McLaren_Field wrote: I've had the worst two hangovers of my life in Barbados, and I was grown up and working there too. I think the stories are told somewhere out there in the blogisphere but one involved illicit substances and an out-of-body experience which was really scary (I had two sets of arms at one point, weird) and the other involved a flock of pigeons in my hotel room eating my vomit off the sheepskin rug like all the animals did for Snow White when they cleaned up the dwarfs house for her. Late edit : http://jerrychicken.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/the-one-about-the-birds/ http://jerrychicken.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/another-drinking-story/ The birds part reminds me of a work meeting in South Carolina - a place on the coast called Seabrook Island. On the last night we had an outdoor barbie and a stage for Karaoke. All the tables were set out with white linen and all polished cutlery. We are all dresssed up, the comapny big cheeses are arriving for nibbles. Guess which donkey decided it would be a good idea to throw a peanut to a seagull. One peanut to one seagull, what harm could thay do? I imagine your room looked similar. Half the seabirds on the Atlantic coast descended on us - we had pelicans dive bombing the women -and they are huge. People scattered screaming, the waiters ran around with their arms in the air trying to scare them off (scare them!). Suffice to say 15 minutes later when they realised they weren't getting fed they buggered off, but all the tables had to be re-laid with fresh linen and cutlery, people who hadn't found cover were covered in bird crap and I was as popular as a fart in a lift. One peanut!

McLaren_Field wrote: I've had the worst two hangovers of my life in Barbados, and I was grown up and working there too. I think the stories are told somewhere out there in the blogisphere but one involved illicit substances and an out-of-body experience which was really scary (I had two sets of arms at one point, weird) and the other involved a flock of pigeons in my hotel room eating my vomit off the sheepskin rug like all the animals did for Snow White when they cleaned up the dwarfs house for her. Late edit : http://jerrychicken.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/the-one-about-the-birds/ http://jerrychicken.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/another-drinking-story/ The birds part reminds me of a work meeting in South Carolina - a place on the coast called Seabrook Island. On the last night we had an outdoor barbie and a stage for Karaoke. All the tables were set out with white linen and all polished cutlery. We are all dresssed up, the comapny big cheeses are arriving for nibbles. Guess which donkey decided it would be a good idea to throw a peanut to a seagull. One peanut to one seagull, what harm could thay do? I imagine your room looked similar. Half the seabirds on the Atlantic coast descended on us - we had pelicans dive bombing the women -and they are huge. People scattered screaming, the waiters ran around with their arms in the air trying to scare them off (scare them!). Suffice to say 15 minutes later when they realised they weren't getting fed they buggered off, but all the tables had to be re-laid with fresh linen and cutlery, people who hadn't found cover were covered in bird crap and I was as popular as a fart in a lift. One peanut!

Re: Thoughts on Murrayfield : Thu May 07, 2009 11:08 pm  

Jord Rhinosaur wrote:

So what did everyone think?

Personally I'd think twice about going again, there just isn't enough around the ground, and the facilities in it leave a lot to be desired.

I think the whole weekend should have been left in Cardiff.

Agree that Cardiff stadium location better and hopefully next year I can see more than I did this time, Yes food etc quite dear the nearer the ground you got but isn't that the case most places ? Worse thing for me was although distance very similar it took me a lot longer to drive to Scotland.

: Fri May 08, 2009 9:06 am  

gulfcoast_highwayman wrote:

What's wrong with that?

Nothing it saves me a fortune at €7-€8 for a Vodka and 7up

mm : Sat May 09, 2009 9:56 am  

I think we have to remember as well that a lot of SL fans who travelled up to Scotland for the weekend bought their tickets at the ground. Therefore the official figure is not really very accurate. As so many people in Edinburgh didn't even know that there was anything on I can't see that many locals would have bought tickets at all.

Give me Cardiff any day.

How many people actually knew that Scotland A were playing the French 1/2 a mile from Murrayfield on the Friday night? Not many. They didn't even advertise that.

Give me Cardiff any time.

And as for going to Dublin, forget it. What as Dublin got to do with the UK. Newcastle would almost be like going abroad as well, just imagine trying to understand the local jingo.

Give me Cardiff every time.

: Sun May 10, 2009 4:14 pm  

A quick niggle, following Murrayfield.

When we won the title last season, I was a bit miffed that they didn't play 'We Are The Champions' onver the tannoy. I figured that the RL didn't want to shell out for the priviledge.

Thank god they weren't so stingy when it came to something really important, like the Mascot Highland Games.

: Sun May 10, 2009 10:34 pm  

tvoc wrote:

A more reasonable comparison between the close on 60,000 all pay attendance in Edinburgh could be this weekend's eight ties in the Challenge Cup 5th round. Although again not ideal as only nine of the fourteen SL clubs remain in the competition.

This weekend's CC games attracted just over half the numbers that travelled to Edinburgh last weekend.

Perhaps next season they should play all of the fifth round ties there in an attempt to boost the Challenge Cup attendances?