Crew Personalities

Carrying along in the same theme as yesterday, and with the women's squad crews now selected, here is how the different seats were worked out... Well it's not as if any seat racing was done, so it can only have been done using this selection procedure -

Cox - Jimmy/Diego, Ruth/Emily : God reincarnated. However, they can't drive a car anymore. They take 10 miles to change a lane, over steer, can't find the brakes, and yell to the car a lot.

Stroke - Rachael W/Jo, Sam/Tom : 'It's a tough job but only I can do it.' Strokes are born and made to be the most competitive person in the boat by far, and if they stroke long enough, become overly competitive in everything they pursue, or don't pursue..

Seven - Caroline T/Zoe, Rob B/Ali : The seven seat is the Bitch Niche. The longer one rows at seven, the more sophisticated and complex the bitching becomes.

Six - Julia/Katy, Gav/Billy : If you bred Arnold Swarcheneggar with a Golden Retriever, you get a six. Six is also Seven's yin. The gentle giant, gorilla in the mist. Six absorbs most of seven's bitching and keeps it from moving through to the rest of the crew.

Five - Jihan/Lauren, Morgan/Graeme : God. Yahweh. Allah. Buddha. It's not that the five seat IS those things, it's just that's how (s)he gets treated. Five is an example of what happens to a bum that is treated like a king, they act like one.

Four - Caroline R/Nicole, Dom/David : The Amnesia-seat. Take a genius with a photographic memory. Four seat is not stupid, just has immediate and catastrophic memory loss. Four is why racing shirts are handed out on race day.

Three - Jane/Rachael M, Andy/Crusher : Late in the water. Late to practice. Late to class. Late to work. Late out of the water. Late to his date. Late to the team bus. Late for everything but chow line.

Two - Kirsty/Corina, Col/John : Lean to the Left, Lean to the right, stand up sit down fight fight fight. Cheerleader. If (s)he says something funny, (s)he repeated something the bowman prompted them with

Bow - Emma/Rowena, Russ/Gildas : Comedian. The bow seat creates a strange fatalism. They know that in a catastrophic collision, they'll be the only one to die or get paralysed. (S)he can be humorless and witless off the water, but on the water when there is breath to spare, you're sure to catch a chuckle if you listen.

The WEHORR crews (give or take a couple of subs) will be out on the water this weekend for their first race.

PS - I take no responsibility for any of these descriptions, and are not necessarily the views held by myself - although I do tend to agree with some of them. It was borrowed from here, and gives much fuller descriptions.