Comments on: The College Cup: Revealed

By: iloveali

iloveali — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 13:37:42 +0000

Katie Marshall is not Downing JCR pres – it's Ali McWhirter. Just saying…

By: Paddy

Paddy — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:33:28 +0000

Fair enough, although I wish you had!

By: McDougal

McDougal — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:21:34 +0000

PHouse only won the IVs because their competition were all tired from their VIIIs race – they couldn't field an VIII. There were several IVs that would have destroyed them had their crews not raced earlier in the day

By: Pranav Sood

Pranav Sood — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:10:43 +0000

We didn’t count IVs at Fairbairns. Only University IVs held in October and then VIIIs at Fairbairns.

By: Paddy

Paddy — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:51:32 +0000

Wait, hang on, rowing is 60 points for a senior boat coming first? So Peterhouse has ten points how exactly?

By: Paddy

Paddy — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:51:49 +0000

Peterhouse came third (men and womens) in the track and field cuppers at the start of michaelmas, and we won the mens' IVs division in Fairbairns.

Also we have pool to fall back on as the 'sport' we're really good at.

…so I'm not really sure how we came last out of the undergraduate colleges, even with our disadvantage in terms of numbers (speaking of which, I think places should be adjusted based on number of people at the college… it does make sense to!). I suspect that Trinity and Johns would be slightly annoyed though…

By: Bennetisacunt

Bennetisacunt — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:25:50 +0000

Try playing it then, cockface. See how you manage.

By: fred

fred — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:36:54 +0000

Rowing is the only sport in which the top college crews can compete against (and beat) other University 1st VIIIs. For example, Trinity last year beat Loughborough, UCL, Dublin, Exeter and Manchester to name but a few. They also comfortably beat the Army, the RAF and the Navy (NB the army being the next fixture for the Blues rugby team.) This is a college crew we are talking about here…
The standard is relatively very high in comparison to other college sports. It's only because CUBC are ridiculously good (because of all the internationals) that college rowers aren't getting to represent CU at their sport.

By: r.bennet

r.bennet — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:29:45 +0000

ULTIMATE FRISBEE IS NOT A SPORT

By: Ultimate fun

Ultimate fun — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:43:52 +0000

This is a pretty serious issue. Ultimate frisbee has long been struggling for equal recognition. It is, after all, clearly not a sport played only by lonely engineers with too little coordination to join the boat club, but a true display of physical and technical skill.