This is moving away from the actual topic, any meaningful discussion and heading to a name calling playground. 

Top end students - those in full-time training and/or top programmes do not have a place in club events. 
The point about increasing quality is true, yes. But, the way to do that isn't to bring in top athletes and pretend they are of club quality and shove away smaller clubs hopes to even see day 1. If you have to bring in students are you competing in the club event or are you reducing it to who has the best contacts? 

A caveat to this is, of course, what do you do with students who are showing huge promise but their university club is not deep enough to field a boat? Perhaps for some individuals, they should make the case to the stewards if they are a sole competitor of the institution and/or there is no other way for them to compete to be allowed in club boats. But, club boats full of students is daft (we could argue one from here one from there comes under that etc) perhaps there needs to be a limit on the number of them allowed in boats similar to past club event winners rule that came in? 

Thames did a fantastic job and proved themselves worthy of the intermediate event - Thames is on its way to being an intermediate event factory. At some point in the future, the Thames name will be for intermediate events only and they will need to begin looking at a paper club to pump athletes into the club event. 
 

Last edited by Sculler (6/15/2017 2:36 pm)

SB wrote:

YA i know of him wrote:

Question is wrote:

Who is the Tideway Bulletin?

Does anyone know?

He is that dude from TSS. who thinks he's sick but not actually. he raced Wyfold for TSS has that brand thing. I cant remember his name but will recognize it if you say it.

Sean Blake

Yeah it's Tideway scullers. It's pretty widely known.

They're not very good at concealing it either - they rip on all the top-end Tideway clubs except TSS. 

CM wrote:

Henley wrote:

SB wrote:

Sean Blake

Yeah it's Tideway scullers. It's pretty widely known.

Nathan O'reilly, Murray Wilkojc, Chris Morahan from Thames also involved
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if only they put as much effort into delivering kit on time as they do the bulletin...
 

Concerned Sculler wrote:

Fat and Hairy wrote:

They're not very good at concealing it either - they rip on all the top-end Tideway clubs except TSS. 

I wondered about that too. Makes sense now.

That's because TSS aren't a top end tideway club