the Elizabethan boat should be in the plate. They went 5:32 at Dorney today.. the guy who is no longer at Princeton also goes 5:48 

BigJim wrote:

RINGER AT HEART wrote:

LRC=Princeton Students wrote:

Incredible. London Rowing Club's Britannia 4+ is four current students at American universities who have rowed as students all year - three at Princeton, one at Florida Tech - and even LRC members are embarrassed by this flagrant violation of the Stewards' 2013 ruling. What a disgrace. 
 

Has anyone thought they may not qualify, 3 lads out of the Princeton 4th 8 and a lad from the FIT 2nd 8. Doesn't sound like a crew that will go too far. 
 

You clearly have no idea of the standard of US uni rowing, Princeton 4th varsity is still of a standard that would be at the top end of uni and club rowing in the U.K.

When are the entries published by HRR?

I am a rower at UTRC and I speak for all my fellow club rowers when I say that we are actually totally chill about Students in club events. In fact it seems ridiculous that we should even get worked up about a bunch of teenagers, putting together scratch boats 2 weeks before the event. Henley is venue for a for the highest standard of sporting competition and achievement and we should all be striving to drive the standard of the sport and the event upward, striving for a higher level of human capacity.

Entries go up tomorrow (Thursday) so we can start the debate all over again.

The Stewards have been checking up on crews this year whether as the result of faked complaint letters or not. In a few hours we will see if they've done anything or if the levels below Intermediate aren't of enough concern to them.

Some of the ideas on here are great, some seem ill thought-through. The fact that the Stewards leave themselves that ultimate discretion to act when an entry is clearly going against the spirit seems the best way forward.

I just hope that if any GB or Irish ringer crews get thrown out the good and also the outstanding club crews don't then end up facing Grasshopper or Sydney RC equivalents. Enforce the spirit across the board or leave it as a free for all.

Recardo wrote:

Ricardo wrote:

Entries go up tomorrow (Thursday) so we can start the debate all over again.

The Stewards have been checking up on crews this year whether as the result of faked complaint letters or not. In a few hours we will see if they've done anything or if the levels below Intermediate aren't of enough concern to them.

Some of the ideas on here are great, some seem ill thought-through. The fact that the Stewards leave themselves that ultimate discretion to act when an entry is clearly going against the spirit seems the best way forward.

I just hope that if any GB or Irish ringer crews get thrown out the good and also the outstanding club crews don't then end up facing Grasshopper or Sydney RC equivalents. Enforce the spirit across the board or leave it as a free for all.

Keep Britain British. Britain for the Brit. 

I am very sick and tired we have bigger issues because Westminster have been at or are going to Henley with many if not most boys from the US and they have more power. Brit four of students have no leg to STAND ON!

Yeah Princeton think they are so fast. Brooks would destroy any US college crew. That's WHY they would not want to race. 🏁