Et Al Community Bulletin Board
GH with life-changing T-shirt news
Bad news for Australia last night, eh? Not to worry. There’s good news for the Et Al community: Christmas is taken care of. First of all, it’s here - the hottest T-shirt since, well, the last one we pimped, the Usman 232, which don’t get me wrong was also cool. But now, by popular demand, you can make every day Craig Serjeant Day with our overdue tribute to my boyhood hero, Australia’s great white batting hope of 1977, in 100 per cent combed cotton.
Just look at him, will you? The luxuriant mop; the cheeky smile; the autograph! Players knew how to sign their names in those days, dammit. Also: stats. His Test runs (522) in one corner, his highest score (124) in the other. It could have been so many more, but I cherished every one. This great design by our very own Dan Et Al is available in an incredible range of colours, from hipster pistachio….
…to imperial burgundy.
You know you want it. Just go here: do it now. My eleven-year-old self would have loved it; putting it on will be like turning eleven years old again. No doubt we’ll be wearing ours for….
…our live podcast on the eve of the Sydney Test match, at the Akasha Taproom in Spencer Street, Five Dock. There will be special guests too. That guy. And him. Maybe her. The other one as well. And we’ll be recording it. What could possibly go wrong? It starts at 3pm, so you’ll have plenty of time to go on to The Grade Cricketer’s live show. Hell, we might go to that ourselves, just to see how it’s done.
Speaking of your other favourite podcast, Pete and I will be mixing it up with Sam and Higgos next week, with the ostensible purpose of launching their new book: The Grade Cricketer: Alphas, Champs and Chop Kings. Pete will be interviewing the authors at Red Mill in Rozelle next Wednesday night (tickets here), and I will be borrowing his questions to repeat them at Como Park in South Yarra on Thursday night (tickets here). All your worlds will be colliding!
Also, while I think of it…..
….there’s this, ICYMI, the product of two years down a veritable rabbit warren in search of the oldest prisoner in the history of the world and the hundred-year-old murder behind it all. Deposit $50 in my account (bsb 733152, acct 525322), let me know your address (gideonhaigh@hotmail.com), and a signed copy of Who is Wallace? will be on its way. If you need any more convincing, Pete and I will be discussing it in a special pod this morning - assuming he can find the copy I posted him.
In fact, for all your Christmas needs, don’t forget to check out our merch page. Compliments of the cricket season to all Et Alers.
Yours in Craig Serjeant,
Gideon
I hope Craig Sergeant has a sense of humour? Sometimes this sounds a bit lampoonish. I’m sure he was a very good shield player and got a test century in difficult political circumstances, something every young cricketer would aspire to!
Ian Davis and Martin Kent were the two players that I thought were great as a young cricket fan. Maybe it was the confluence of the middle-order batter to opener to fade out in WSC days career arc? Who's to say how the fascinations of young cricket tragics develop?