Unimpressed about having to dig out the Fladen suit in July.

Rower: How was our steering today?.Coach: *whilst cleaning mud off the boat with a pressure washer* I think we'll give you higher grades in effort than attainment.

Unpopular opinion of the day:. Given the desire to find space in the time table for new events/to expand other events, a 32 boat PE makes no sense.

I was doing some work on the truck (aka watching YouTube tutorials and swearing when nothing worked) and a man watched me for 10' before asking if I was a mechanic and whether I wanted to work on his BMW. Absolutely nothing he saw me do could possibly be mistaken for competence.

. is someone new doing the HRR documents? We have new and different formatting this year?.

People who design boats with centre bolted footplates on anything larger than a single should be beaten with their own arms.

A sad story in one picture.

The shell has done well there to still be mostly in one piece.

There's a special place in hell for people who design motorway service stations and put the loos right at the back as far away from the door as possible. (Yes I am aware of the concept of shop footfall but still straight down to hell you go).

I reckon I currently consume about 5 flies per coached outing at this point of the season. I would really rather this number decreased.

10pts to this person who successfully took a trailer through a Maccies drive through.

The economics of new boat buying are so topsy turvy the sensible budget option for a certain tideway club is genuinely the reverse wing Filippi octo. I feel sorry for the person who has to organise the trailer bed.

Are we about to see a few 8.32s come onto the secondhand market soon?

I would be pretty peeved if I were an intermediate level junior club coach having to race Champ today rather than 1st 8 because mediocre schools need their own protected category.

I bet you this kid wouldn't tow a boat trailer worse than some people I've seen.

10pts for clearest, most legible, boatcode.

I'm going to highlight one sentence from this article because it says it all.

The Telegraph BR article today is comedy gold. Whilst I have sympathy on the PGCE front. Leading on the plight of the 12 year rule which is written in black and white and directly in response to the article's author is hilarious.

more doubling up, without any more athletes. This is an understandable strategy to claim more coverage. I think more of the rowing community would be open to this if it was laid out clearly rather than a press release saying reps bad mxd 8 good which just makes us all facepalm.

So multiple people have sent me this today. And I totally understand why loads of people hate it. The rower in me hates it too. But I think the issue here is comms on what WR is trying to achieve. I interpret their actions as trying to get more medal events, with. .