Conditions warm and sunny. The Big match, two eights locked together in an Oxford Cambridge style match. Both crews confident and ready. The crews have been named by the press as Betty and Swollocks after a pair of old club members.
Lets hope that they can live up to such auspicious, if slightly cheesy, names.
The pundits are forced to slash their odds on Swollocks after the crew dramatically clicks during the warm up. Rumours that the stroke man almost wasn't allowed to the pre-race liquid carbo loading due to sartorial crimes are also quickly quashed. The crews row to the start, the tension is etched on the faces of all. The crews hardly notice as they focus on the race ahead. Betty and Swollocks line up.