Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
Yes on today at 1630.
I am a Oxford man myself they won last year and I hope they do it again today.
Looks like we will lose the tennis today .
If it was not for our woman winning at sport we would not have any cups etc to put in the show case this year.
RACE NOT AS I GOT IT IN THE HEADING SACE
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#2
At least this is one cup which can't be won by the Aussies, French, or Italians. My youngest son lives in Chiswick and his garden is right on the Thames bank overlooking the area just after the finish line. Looks like the weather will be right for sitting out with a cool beer or three.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#3
i haven't watched it in years, when i was a kid it was oxford for the boys and cambridge for the girls.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#4
Easy win for Oxford but feel sorry for Cambridge and the lad who let go of his ore.But like most sport now on the TV far to much talking for over 1hour before the race it gets very boring going over and over the same thing just like match of the day now all I want to see is the boat race or the football not all the other rubbish that goes with it.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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#5
howard mcsweeney1 wrote:i haven't watched it in years, when i was a kid it was oxford for the boys and cambridge for the girls.
Pwoppa toff
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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#6
Cambridge foe me every time.I lived 30 miles from Cambridge.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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#7
Cambridge foe me every time.I lived 30 miles from Cambridge.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#8
I was born in Cambridge but have never lived there. I was there on Saturday for my brother-in-law's birthday party but I need the satnav to get around.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#9
I have worked a lot in Cambridge nice place last time was renewing a railway bridge over the River after a train was derailed anyway I had great fun one morning when told to put the rubber stopper across the river just as the Cambridge crew was about to go under the bridge we was working on ,they were shouting at me telling they were in training for the boat race and needed to carry on.
I SHOUTED back did you not read the notice of the closing times of the River you will have to turn back they were not happy and I will not put down what they shouted back at me.
Guest 1033- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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#10
My mate's son works for the bank that sponsors the boat race, and they hand little flags around for the employees to wave in support of one or other team. When he was asked which colour flag he would like, his reply was along the lines of (Howard will appreciate this) ' Sky Blue with Claret is the only blue I'm interested in, certainly not in a bunch of ******s rowing a boat'...haha.