IT was a quiet week competitively on the water, but an interesting one from an administrative point of view, with Radley College putting out an advertisement for a director of rowing, writes Mike Rosewell.

The three major local, and successful, rowing schools Radley, St Edward's and Abingdon have always had their master in charge as a teaching member of their staff, who ran the boat club and all the coaching as an addition to his teaching commit- ments.

Times are changing, however, and it is difficult in the modern world with its pressures on academic pursuits, and indeed more administration in running a boat club, to find the schoolmaster/ coach who is prepared to do two jobs for the price of one.

Frenchman, Jean Le Manac'h, the master in charge of rowing at Radley for the past six years and a member of the Radley coaching team for the past 23 years, says: "The new man needs clear decks around him. We want new blood and new ideas."

At present, 15 members of the Radley teaching staff help with coaching the 13 crews that on an average weekend represent the school.

There is a also a full-time skilled boatman and a boat builder based at the boat houses.

Not a bad new post for an ambitious coach.