Bumps, Blades, and Bowballs- Cambridge Boatie Chat

As expected we got beaten, but we did get to go wading into the river up to our knees, which was an absolute riot. So not all bad. We also managed to get some sympathy cheers from a couple of random girl boats, which wasn't distracting at all.

Where were you sat in your boat Chewwy?

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we lost in the next round to Magdalene. very disappointing.

my prediction is they'll through to the final now, and then be beaten by the FaT boat that has at least 2 of their first boat in...

We had to scratch, ill cox at the last minute.

Been hearing some stories from our first men about Caius M1 being whiny bastards.

They lost to our M1, which is a massive upset in itself, with people tipping Caius to go up, even if Girton are underanked. But then Caius complained to the marshalls because we had a sub not from Girton, and got us disqualified! How shabby is that? (I'm not sure who the sub was, but I know for a fact they had a Pembroke cox, which is even more shabby if they called it on that). It's not as if it's an important race, I mean fair enough if it was in bumps. It's very much sour grapes from where I'm standing.

well, you had the captain of lmbc, and a random sub from darwin iirc. In their own college kit at least you beat them anyway!

considering it all happened before the race, i don't see what's unreasonable about it. also girton haven't beaten caius in anything else this term, so it's unlikely that if we had been racing properly (instead of knowing we were racing a disqualified crew and had a final coming up) the result would've been the same.

plus the point of these college races is to like, you know, row for your own college...

I didn't know the DQ happened before the race. Would you actually row any less hard in a race? especially when it's side by side. If they were saving themselves it didn't work if they lost to Clare in the final.

I've now heard so many different colleges of where the sub(s) came from. Magdelene was mentioned somewhere, which would make sense as we actually have a grad who was an undergrad at magdelene, so not a non-college sub at all.

considering it all happened before the race, i don't see what's unreasonable about it. also girton haven't beaten caius in anything else this term, so it's unlikely that if we had been racing properly (instead of knowing we were racing a disqualified crew and had a final coming up) the result would've been the same.

plus the point of these college races is to like, you know, row for your own college...

James says he's glad he didn't end up racing Girton in the final, because he wouldn't like to go head-to-head with a fellow cox at City!

I am officially racing in my first ever race, a week today. Pretty exciting.

Good luck!

Also, I assume the CUCBC flag system is just for college clubs. Is there an equivalent for town clubs?

Yes, coxing is a lot more difficult than it looks, I'm glad someone appreciates that!

Hell's bells - we have the Getting On Race for bumps on friday which I'm dreading; there are 34 crews racing for all of 10 places. I'm not entirely sure why we even have to do it; looking at the list, we're one of the few 2nd boats on there, most are 3rd, 4th and 5th crews. How do they decide who has to do the race, does anyone know?