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Productivity was slowed this week due to the following emails:

Seldon unqualmed about playing in the A grade comp

I’m happy to scratch single figures for 3 hrs on dodgy puddings so you show ponies down the order can boost your averages against the medium pace merchants to get us to 80 each week. And then we bowl em out for 70 no sweat.

In all seriousness, I firstly am with Chewie on this one – I just want to play crick with my mates = where you go, I go (…until I go to Wagga I s’pose…).

Secondly, I feel A Grade is nothing for us to be concerned about – I’ve umpired them in the past and I can say there were no Brett Lees charging in and no Mark Waughs smashing it all over the joint. If anything, there were some older hacks that thought they were a hell of a lot better than they are* (I can’t wait to hear the first “you can’t hack the big league” sledge from some Santa-gutted geriatric cricket nerd bowling on some pudding in back-streets Killara).

The main factors in A Grade I see are:

1. the cricket nerdiness quotient is higher;
2. the state of the wickets making batting difficult
3. there will be minimal/zero passengers in opposition teams
4. the possibility of a get-square all-in against Stone Cold Steve Austin and his mates in the West Pymble game (most of you will not have played them, suffice to say Pagey’s “Hit him in the v@g” may jog a few memories).

I don’t see us as an embarrassment like Wanderers were in A Grade last yr – sure we may not win the comp but it’s probably the best fit for us in NSCA at the moment.

And as the Butthole Surfers once sang, “it’s better to regret something you have done, rather than something you haven’t done”

Cheers
Matt

* you could read that as ironic

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