Your friends are probably right, just like you don't want to see this guy tonight. Don't take it so personally, most online daters are only after one thing (yes they are...). Move on.
Abbey, are there no rugby social clubs where you are (Wales being a rugby orientated country) - why not have a night out there with your friends and probably meet up with some hunky rugby player? Just a thought x
So now you have told him you are tired what will you say if he asks you out again when you are not tired? That is what I meant when I said tell him the truth - that you don't want to go out with him. No lies, no excuses.
I'm not sure why the topic reverted back to your dithering over your Saturday date given that you had a thread already on that topic.
Getting back to Friday's meal, which outfit did you select in the end? (Apologies if it's buried among the other topics in the thread and I missed it.)