0/Tish Sky Sports 3 Tonight? : Thu Mar 05, 2009 4:10 pm  

Anybody else watching the Varsity Match tonight between Oxford and Cambridge Universitys?

: Thu Mar 05, 2009 4:13 pm  

Certainly am, last years was a good 'un!

: Thu Mar 05, 2009 4:14 pm  

Might have it on, but hardly compelling viewing.

: Thu Mar 05, 2009 4:15 pm  

piemandan wrote:

Certainly am, last years was a good 'un!

I have never watched one of these matces before but I certainly will be watching it tonight.

: Thu Mar 05, 2009 4:19 pm  

wigan rugby wrote:

I have never watched one of these matces before but I certainly will be watching it tonight.

They do get stuck in good and proper. I'm led to believe they train pretty much on full time as well, before their lessons start in the morning.

It's weird though because no matter how good they are, they aren't going to play the sport on a full time basis - Most graduate to become doctors etc.

[JTB]

: Thu Mar 05, 2009 4:24 pm  

piemandan wrote:

Most graduate to become doctors etc.

Do they? I bet there's not more than a couple of medical students. I remember playing Oxford when I was at Uni and chatting with their lads they were all doing heavy academic stuff like English Lit, Classics and Greek.

Although the Varsity game is built up due to the history, the better RL players tend to come from the less academic places with sports courses such as Leeds Met, Loughborough and UWIC. We got torn a 2nd booty by one lad when we played Loughborough who has done the rounds of the likes of Batley etc since he left. The standard's pretty low really so even someone like him looked like a superstar at that level.

: Thu Mar 05, 2009 4:28 pm  

JTB wrote:

Do they? I bet there's not more than a couple of medical students. I remember playing Oxford when I was at Uni and chatting with their lads they were all doing heavy academic stuff like English Lit, Classics and Greek.

Although the Varsity game is built up due to the history, the better RL players tend to come from the less academic places with sports courses such as Leeds Met, Loughborough and UWIC. We got torn a 2nd booty by one lad when we played Loughborough who has done the rounds of the likes of Batley etc since he left. The standard's pretty low really so even someone like him looked like a superstar at that level.

Whoever commentated on last years game named the players who were graduating to become doctors. I think one of the captains was at the end of his degree and he was off to become a doctor of some sort.

: Thu Mar 05, 2009 10:08 pm  

Shocking game of RL. Granted I only caught the last half hour but I don't think I saw a completed set.

: Thu Mar 05, 2009 11:58 pm  

Bilko wrote:

Shocking game of RL. Granted I only caught the last half hour but I don't think I saw a completed set.

I bloody missed it

[Pemps]

: Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:18 am  

piemandan wrote:

Whoever commentated on last years game named the players who were graduating to become doctors. I think one of the captains was at the end of his degree and he was off to become a doctor of some sort.

If you do a PhD in Chemistry, Philosophy, English Lit, Maths etc etc you become a doctor of that subject.