Re: Is disqualification enough ?

Rower123- here here!

Amusingly (to me, anyway) this newsgroup used to be dominated by Americans. As Americans tend to do, we'd forget that others around the world might want to read and post too. However, the non-Americans were regularly chiding us anytime someone failed to qualify a race, club, geographical region, etc as being somewhere in America.

But, then, once the newsgroup "tipped" and became largely British, this standard of courtesy that we were always being reminded of went out the window and typical posts increasingly had headings like 'Sir Steve', "boat race", 'head of the river' or just 'HORR'...

Just an obsevervation of how things change when the shoe is on the other foot...

Marc



Rower123 wrote:
Mark
this forum / site / usergroup is international and is read by people
all over the world. Recently and increasingly UK posters, in particular
those based on the Tideway (River thames in London) assume that this is
the centre of the universe and that all reading will be intimitely
familiar with all local issues described.

In order to make postings more accessible, it would be good if all
posters give a little background and context.

I guess you are referring to the Head of River Race 2006 in London,
that you row for Agecroft and are annoyed at your crash with University
of London at Harrods. However someone in Aus could hardly make that
quantum leap from your 0 information.

For the record, I saw the Row TV video. Looks like it messed up your
race. However I agree with Alastair, it looked like your cox could have
avoided the crash, even if off ideal line. This would have been
infinitely less slow than not rowing for 10 secs waiting for bow to
recover his oar.

Anyway this will matter little to you if you achieve what you are after
in the summer (presumably Henley Royal Regatta). On the other hand,
even a top 10 pl would seem like little consolation if you exited the
Thames Cup (HRR club VIII) on Wednesday (1st round).

.

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