fpiglet
Darby Loudon (17)
Having attended one of the GPS schools were rowing was a major sport, to cast any aspersions on those non-GPS schools who put a mighty effort into giving their rowers an opportunity is a bit poor, fpiglet. It's all a game fer Chrissake, all the more the merrier. AND it gives the sport added depth which wouldn't've otherwise been there. Do you know there are NO girls schools in Sydney who have their own rowing shed? They've all had to beg, borrow and negotiate space in boys schools' and senior clubs' sheds around Sydney. But Sydney girls schools' efforts to take part in rowing pale into significance when put up against what some NSW country schools do to take part. Sydney GPS schools get it bloody easy in the rowing stakes.
The NSW country schools' commitment to trek out to local dams for training and then trek even further to regattas in Sydney or on the North Coast is to be admired. If Kinross Wolaroi wish to maximise their time at a regatta in Sydney and mix up their rowers among various crews, maximise away KW. Just don't ask for a start.
I'll make it simple, if you didn't read my comment precisely and just went all feral about GPS schools (you brought them into it not me...)
The point is:
You (and the last blogger) seem to miss the point that all the other competitors (in the 3rd VIII) are there to race their grade. By all means KW race but what about going in (to the 3rd VIII) as an invitational entry if the crew is, as stated by ELM, so fast? Maybe if they had waited four or five events they could have rowed in the SB 2nd VIII or SB 1st VIII that would have been more their standard (as times demonstrated).
As stated, I'm all for their rowing programme, you must have missed that point too.