The long boat game

[MrGongGong]

Good to have a women's race. Now all we need to do is allow all universities to compete, holding the final on "Boat Race Day".

I don't think that's the point
It's like the way that some Universities are allowed to enter multiple teams on University Challenge (and give out fake MA's)

[Nick Armstrong]

Is there a more irritating and inconsequential TV sport commentator than Jonathan Legard? Up against a huge range of stiff opposition, he emerges as subtly but definitely the worst, for me, for sheer witlessness masquerading as insight

[Nick Armstrong]

Worthy, impressive, and expected winners.

[teamsaint]

why do they go backwards?

[BBMmk2]

Ruling classes still speaking french, nothing has changed since 1066....................:smiley

Pardon moi monsieur, The Royal House of Plantagenet ascended the thone in 1154-1485 and probably beyond! :)

[teamsaint]

Pardon moi monsieur, The Royal House of Plantagenet ascended the thone in 1154-1485 and probably beyond! :)

and they were quite literally French, with, according to certain reliable ( ) internet sites, Henry IV ( born 1367)being the first properly English speaking Monarch.

apparently. N'est ce pas, Monsieur BBM ?

Although, if they were like the current lot,they all talk B******cks whatever language its in.

( I don't follow the last three words of your post, BTW!)

Edit: Apparently it was Henry IV ( Part 1).

[Flosshilde]

... yes, C "Ambridge" were not good losers.

Did they lose both races?

[Flosshilde]

I don't think that's the point
It's like the way that some Universities are allowed to enter multiple teams on University Challenge (and give out fake MA's)

& the USA's 'World Series' rounders contest (in which no other country takes part)

[MrGongGong]

& the USA's 'World Series' rounders contest (in which no other country takes part)

and the "World Saxophone Quartet" ?

[vinteuil]

Did they lose both races?

... they lost all four (girls, boys, girls reserves, boys reserves)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

why do they go backwards?

Well they do when they swim backstroke.
And in Tug-of-War.

But the real reason it that the rowers can push with their feet whilst pulling with their arms, thereby going faster than they would if paddling forward, as in canoeing.

I want one of these:

https://www.facebook.com/fyneboatkits/photos/pcb.10153071850566598/10153071781601598/?type=1&theater

[LeMartinPecheur]

I don't think that's the point
It's like the way that some Universities are allowed to enter multiple teams on University Challenge (and give out fake MA's)

This is ridiculous and ignorant MrGG. It's the other (jumped-up, red-brick) universities that issue fake MAs, with that absurd insistence that some extra work is necessary

And as for multiple teams, I absolutely agree with you. It would be much fairer, albeit a little predictable as to outcome, if the two proper universities (well, only the one actually, but we'll let that pass for now) were allowed to enter a grand 'team of teams', rather than diluting their very best talent to give the also-rans a faint chance