smallest wrote:

BigJim wrote:

If Team Keane have Berwick- Cooley on board then surely they will be in the Ladies as he has a medal at the U23s last year which is against the rules for the Thames?

THE THAMES CHALLENGE CUP FOR EIGHT OARS WITH COXSWAIN
1. Any crew of eligible members of any one club established at least one year before the closing date for entries may contend for this prize, subject to the following:-
(a) No crew of a boat club of any university, college or secondary school shall be qualified to contend for this prize.
(b) No current national squad oarsman, heavyweight or lightweight, shall compete in this event.
(c) No F.I.S.A. Under 23 national crew may contend for this prize.
(d) No oarsman shall compete in this event if he has rowed or sculled in an Olympic Games, a Final Olympic Qualification Regatta, a F.I.S.A. Senior World Championships or a Senior European Championships.
(e) No oarsman shall compete in this event if he has won a medal at a World Under 23 Championships.
(f) No oarsman shall compete in this event if he has previously won an event at the Regatta, other than The Temple, The Prince Albert, The Princess Elizabeth or The Fawley Challenge Cups, save that any crew may contain up to two oarsmen who have previously won The Thames, The Wyfold or The Britannia Challenge Cups. (g) No crew of an alumni boat club of a university or college shall be qualified to contend for this prize if the crew contains any current year students from the associated university or college. 2. No one (coxswains excepted) shall compete in this event and in any other event at the same Regatta.

don't want to be that guy, but he could have just been subbing in...
 

anonymoose wrote:

smallest wrote:

BigJim wrote:

If Team Keane have Berwick- Cooley on board then surely they will be in the Ladies as he has a medal at the U23s last year which is against the rules for the Thames?

THE THAMES CHALLENGE CUP FOR EIGHT OARS WITH COXSWAIN
1. Any crew of eligible members of any one club established at least one year before the closing date for entries may contend for this prize, subject to the following:-
(a) No crew of a boat club of any university, college or secondary school shall be qualified to contend for this prize.
(b) No current national squad oarsman, heavyweight or lightweight, shall compete in this event.
(c) No F.I.S.A. Under 23 national crew may contend for this prize.
(d) No oarsman shall compete in this event if he has rowed or sculled in an Olympic Games, a Final Olympic Qualification Regatta, a F.I.S.A. Senior World Championships or a Senior European Championships.
(e) No oarsman shall compete in this event if he has won a medal at a World Under 23 Championships.
(f) No oarsman shall compete in this event if he has previously won an event at the Regatta, other than The Temple, The Prince Albert, The Princess Elizabeth or The Fawley Challenge Cups, save that any crew may contain up to two oarsmen who have previously won The Thames, The Wyfold or The Britannia Challenge Cups. (g) No crew of an alumni boat club of a university or college shall be qualified to contend for this prize if the crew contains any current year students from the associated university or college. 2. No one (coxswains excepted) shall compete in this event and in any other event at the same Regatta.

don't want to be that guy, but he could have just been subbing in...
 

I feel like you could be right...

What I've really enjoyed about the Bulletin's coverage of the 'Team Keane' Thames Cup debacle is this picture:

 
In which Berkwick Cooley or whatever his name is stands on the hard at UL next to the Empacher 8+ Jonathan Close-Brooks - a boat that belongs to Oriel College Boat Club, whose minibus has been pictured parked round the back...

http://rowing.oriel.ox.ac.uk/2017/03/jonathan-close-brooks-boat-launch/ 

If there is such a thing as the spirit of the rules, then Team Keane have shown massive contempt for it.

Fisty wrote:

Team Keane all Oxford students
Elizabethan all Princeton/Harvard students (besides the one that was expelled 👀)
Taurus rumoured to have two athletes not allowed
London 4+ Princeton students

Shady characters. If you race for the uni in the year, don't do the club events.

Just my opinion. Shady shady ringers. Boooo

It does make a mockery of the idea of club events if you can fly in students fresh from rowing 1st varsity in USA. Club rowing in the U.K. Is already dying a death and this behaviour will only make it worse trying to maintain club towers in the sport. Why do they not have a rule included excluding those rowers who have rowed in US varsity 1st 8s? Although saying that the varsity 2nd 8s at the IRAs last week was stacked with very good British rowers also so that might not completely put an end to the problem.

Also who names a boat club after themself!?

Fly on the wall wrote:

Fisty wrote:

Team Keane all Oxford students
Elizabethan all Princeton/Harvard students (besides the one that was expelled 👀)
Taurus rumoured to have two athletes not allowed
London 4+ Princeton students

Shady characters. If you race for the uni in the year, don't do the club events.

Just my opinion. Shady shady ringers. Boooo

A group of friends, wanting to race, and compete in the only event of their level for which they are constitutionally eligible, whilst representing an up and coming club that does great work, don't sound like shady characters.

On the contrary they sound like people that encapsulate the essence of sport: competition, camaraderie and using what talents you have to support the next generation by providing exposure to an institution that works a lot with introducing the sport to the young. 

Hi Paul