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Will the women's boat club gain the Lents Headship within the next 3 years?

After their fantastic performance this Lents, it's not that far away. Can they do it in 3 years?

Yes		57%

No		43%

Total: 37 members' votes

by Dubya - Sun 6th Mar 2005, 8:44pm

Dan said: After their fantastic performance this Lents, it's not that far away. Can they do it in 3 years?

Let's not get carried away.. It probably could be done - but could it be done without sacrificing some boat races to Oxford that might otherwise be won by future triallists from First and Third?

by Caius and Downing ladies managed it - Mon 7th Mar 2005, 9:17am

Dubya said: Let's not get carried away.. It probably could be done - but could it be done without sacrificing some boat races to Oxford that might otherwise be won by future triallists from First and Third?

This is because CUWBC have in the past relied so heavily on FaT Ladies to make up their crews!
Who's sticking around from the Ladies Lent VIII next year?

by Simon - Mon 7th Mar 2005, 9:50am

Dubya said: Let's not get carried away..

No, let's get carried away, just for a while... Double headship in 2007, anyone?

by Dubya - Mon 7th Mar 2005, 10:07am

Caius and Downing ladies managed it said:
Who's sticking around from the Ladies Lent VIII next year?

Are any of them actually leaving?

by Amelia - Mon 7th Mar 2005, 11:03am

Hopefully I'll be in some far-flung corner of the world next Lents for my elective, although if an overbump to headship looked likely then I could always do a boring research project based in Cambridge instead...

by Danielle - Mon 7th Mar 2005, 2:00pm

I'll be far away too, year abroad calls: spain, beaches, bar work - can't say i'll miss this country much :-) FaT women really ought to take the headship though, now that everyone else is scared of us...

by Anything to do with being short - Mon 7th Mar 2005, 2:02pm

Simon said: No, let's get carried away, just for a while... Double headship in 2007, anyone?

Why wait? Bump for the Men, double overbump for the women on Clare day one, then make it both crews head at the end of the second day of Lents 2006.....

On a more serious note: one "soon-to-be-buftie" (no matter pass or fail, I stop being eligable when I have my viva) hoping that the women's club will seriously sustain this and become the dominant force they should be!

It will take time and planning.

by RTT - Mon 7th Mar 2005, 2:18pm

Anything to do with being short said: It will take time and planning.

And jelly babies and hugs.

....only kidding. Well done to the women for knuckling down with their training and getting the results they therefore deserved.

by Amelia - Mon 7th Mar 2005, 3:25pm

"....only kidding. Well done to the women for knuckling down with their training and getting the results they therefore deserved."

...despite Messrs Rose, Allen and Davies' best attempts to make the opposition (Pembroke, Queens' and Newnham respectively) go fast. Or was it all just a sham, and really you were softening them up for us? ;-)

by RTT - Mon 7th Mar 2005, 3:52pm

Amelia said: really you were softening them up for us? ;-)

Setting you up for the overbump I think you'll find. No point trying if the crew one in front are too poor (obviously JPD needs to sort out his coaching).

by pia - Mon 7th Mar 2005, 4:06pm

well, we do have some people thinking about trialling and I am one of them. But I admit to be slightly torn between taking FaT ladies where they belong and working towards one single, straight 2k race, even if against Oxford.

... and after all it is Maggie we are chasing on Day 1.

by Erica - Mon 7th Mar 2005, 5:28pm

I'm glad to see the men starting to think about taking us seriously for a change :op

In reply to the poll, I think we certainly "can" take the headship within three years, but that actually doing it may take longer (see points above about triallists).

Now that Trinity finally admits as many women as men (to UG courses,at least), our standing in the bumps charts ought to come to reflect the size and strength of the boat club a little more accurately. Ra Ra First and Third!

PS I'll be around for at least another two years, although I'm considering trialling next year.

by RTT - Mon 7th Mar 2005, 5:42pm

Erica said: I'm glad to see the men starting to think about taking us seriously for a change :op

And I'm glad to see the women starting to take training seriously for a change. Coincidence? ;-P

by Wanted a second overbump :o( - Mon 7th Mar 2005, 6:34pm

RTT said: (obviously JPD needs to sort out his coaching).

And Amy Wallace her coxing; there'd only have been one year to the Headship if Newnham had closed a little faster on Maggie :o)

by alla - Tue 8th Mar 2005, 12:16am

pia said: well, we do have some people thinking about trialling... But I admit to be slightly torn between taking FaT ladies where they belong and working towards one single, straight 2k race, even if against Oxford.

well, it's not quite like that... there may be one or two perks along the way...

www.wehorr.org

try the results page and the university pennant in particular...

by pia - Thu 10th Mar 2005, 6:55pm

alla said: well, it's not quite like that... there may be one or two perks along the way...

www.wehorr.org

try the results page and the university pennant in particular...

Congratulations on that, by the way. 5th, what a fantastic result! Good luck in Henley!!!