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6/15/2017 5:11 am  #101


Re: Students in Club events

Yes I agree that Elizabethan do pose a bigger threat to UK rowing. I know the Lonond boys and they are actually London guys. Whether you like it or not. And the one American that had been suspended from Princeton transferred to Washington last year.

We have to think that the best way forward however is to be the BIGGER man and keep the sport of rowing very competitive for the sake of those to come it has to be that way.

I went to oxford and never rowed. I wish I had but sad that I never decided to do it. I then joined Thames RC and we have spent a decade building it up from nothing. Sure there have been some bumps along the way but the way I see it everyone is human and trying to do the best they can. The guys have had an amazing story and if you got to know them i know you all would think very differently.

Keep the heads healthy and held high. We are Britain and we are the best!

6/15/2017 11:06 am  #102


Re: Students in Club events

Oxford wrote:

Yes I agree that Elizabethan do pose a bigger threat to UK rowing. I know the Lonond boys and they are actually London guys. Whether you like it or not. And the one American that had been suspended from Princeton transferred to Washington last year.

We have to think that the best way forward however is to be the BIGGER man and keep the sport of rowing very competitive for the sake of those to come it has to be that way.

I went to oxford and never rowed. I wish I had but sad that I never decided to do it. I then joined Thames RC and we have spent a decade building it up from nothing. Sure there have been some bumps along the way but the way I see it everyone is human and trying to do the best they can. The guys have had an amazing story and if you got to know them i know you all would think very differently.

Keep the heads healthy and held high. We are Britain and we are the best!

Thames rc, founded in 1860, has been built up "from nothing" in the past 10 years? Seriously?

6/15/2017 11:11 am  #103


Re: Students in Club events

Oxford wrote:

Yes I agree that Elizabethan do pose a bigger threat to UK rowing. I know the Lonond boys and they are actually London guys. Whether you like it or not. And the one American that had been suspended from Princeton transferred to Washington last year.

One guys that rowed for London in a gap year, and one from the ringer eight last year, plus two new ringers this year, but all current students, not visibly rowing at LRC a few weeks ago.

6/15/2017 11:24 am  #104


Re: Students in Club events

Brooksbetter wrote:

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

Mate are you cooked? Brooks wouldn't make the IRA B final.

6/15/2017 11:33 am  #105


Re: Students in Club events

the owl wrote:

Oxford wrote:

Yes I agree that Elizabethan do pose a bigger threat to UK rowing. I know the Lonond boys and they are actually London guys. Whether you like it or not. And the one American that had been suspended from Princeton transferred to Washington last year.

We have to think that the best way forward however is to be the BIGGER man and keep the sport of rowing very competitive for the sake of those to come it has to be that way.

I went to oxford and never rowed. I wish I had but sad that I never decided to do it. I then joined Thames RC and we have spent a decade building it up from nothing. Sure there have been some bumps along the way but the way I see it everyone is human and trying to do the best they can. The guys have had an amazing story and if you got to know them i know you all would think very differently.

Keep the heads healthy and held high. We are Britain and we are the best!

Thames rc, founded in 1860, has been built up "from nothing" in the past 10 years? Seriously?

It seems that in 2007 that Thames along with Leander Club made the final of the Remenham club, a lot of clubs would take that "nothing"

6/15/2017 11:48 am  #106


Re: Students in Club events

Mikes wrote:

Brooksbetter wrote:

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

Mate are you cooked? Brooks wouldn't make the IRA B final.

Hahhahaha brooks would get wrecked by Dartmouth or The United States Naval Academy.

The U.K. Just simply has no real collegiate rowing to speak of.

6/15/2017 11:53 am  #107


Re: Students in Club events

youreallwet wrote:

if you are complaining about an essentially scratch 4+ made up of members of a uni 4v being too good to enter your event its time to re-consider whether rowing is your sport.

those people who hark the death of club rowing are the same people who chastise others for wanting to represent their clubs. 

If you are a student at a high performance American rowing university and you're too wet to enter the PA and instead decide to enter a club event like the Brit because you know the bottom end will consist of people who havn't trained full time maybe it's time to re-consider whether rowing is your sport.

6/15/2017 12:08 pm  #108


Re: Students in Club events

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.

Lol. Of course you don't have an issue with it. UTRC have continuously benefited from bringing in Leander drop outs at the last minute who have been 'signed up' as members for free as early as February but don't step foot in the boat house until June. For all intents and purposes this is the same thing, except they have even more spare time as they're not studying!

6/15/2017 12:14 pm  #109


Re: Students in Club events

Anon wrote:

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.

Lol. Of course you don't have an issue with it. UTRC have continuously benefited from bringing in Leander drop outs at the last minute who have been 'signed up' as members for free as early as February but don't step foot in the boat house until June. For all intents and purposes this is the same thing, except they have even more spare time as they're not studying!

Upper Thames is basically just hippo turds

6/15/2017 12:17 pm  #110


Re: Students in Club events

Princeton4Brit wrote:

youreallwet wrote:

if you are complaining about an essentially scratch 4+ made up of members of a uni 4v being too good to enter your event its time to re-consider whether rowing is your sport.

those people who hark the death of club rowing are the same people who chastise others for wanting to represent their clubs. 

If you are a student at a high performance American rowing university and you're too wet to enter the PA and instead decide to enter a club event like the Brit because you know the bottom end will consist of people who havn't trained full time maybe it's time to re-consider whether rowing is your sport.

If you are too wet to even sign your chat with your name maybe it's time to reconsider. You are but hurt that you suck at rowing.

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