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Congratulations to Kings for winning the MR for a second year, well done to Shore for wining the 2nd VIII and 1st IV in very close races with Riverview, for also taking out the 2nd IV. Well done to Riverview for achieving podium positions in all 11 races and wining the 3rd IV, 4th IV, 3rd VIII...

HOTR has been moved to Iron Cove.

Number 7; both Senior and Junior Point scores are too close to call IMHO. In the Senior crews its Shore 171, View 169, Kings on 134. Will come down to the boys on the day.

Bit of trivia no one asked for; before the silver and gold oars that are currently awarded to winning crews at the Riverview Gold Cup, 14 ct gold medals were awarded with the Riverview crest on one side and the engraved name of the rower/cox and the year on the reverse. My grandfather won this...

Well done to the Kings 1st VIII for last week. Riverview Gold Cup is this Saturday and covered on YouTube;

G'day GPSRowing, yes Riverview won 3 out of 4 of the year 10 Jnr VIIIs last year at HOTR, just an indication they were going to be strong in their GPS crews again this year. View's year 10 1st VIII last year won their HOTR race with a record time of 6.08 and change. They have a powerful shed...

Decent speed out of the Riverview boatshed today at the Joeys regatta, winning the 3rd VIII, 4th IV, 3rd IV, 2nd IV and 1st VIII. Well done 'View!

Agreed TME, plenty of depth in the Royal Blue and White, having O'D fit is a bonus. Allsopp, Dalrymple and Granger had a cracker with the other boys previously mentioned, but they all combined pretty well imho to overcome a larger CAS side.

I apologise in advance if people have seen a similar meme for our banned mate, that I generated last time he had a yellow card. I would be surprised if the GPS boys don't win tonight, however haven't seen Waverley this season....

Don’t agree Scrumcap, Riverview have great depth and Connors (12), Granger (14) and Mathews (15), all had a great game for View. The side will be competitive, much larger picture than one bloke, as brilliant at O’D is.

View 2nd XV def Shore 52-8 View 1st XV def Shore 36 - 12

1997 - so many points of interest. Touchie - Gordon Bray Nil X SJC 4 X Shore Sean Maloney how things change over 25 years HB, Gordon Bray as a Touchie, that's gold! Bob Egerton as a coach at Kings is interesting too. Bob taught science and Ag at Riverview in the late 80's and was playing...

TME, we (Minister of War and Finance & I), will be down next week to support the boys against Shore on 1st Field from at least 2pm.

1st XV View 45 def Joeys 38.

Great report TME. Our son’s reported it was a tough physical game and ‘View able to control multiple phases, working well together as a team.