On my way to work this morning I called in and saw the local convenience store here in the city had a box of 09/10 Select cricket on the counter!! I only need a Lee Gem for the master set but I couldn't help myself and picked up 8 packs to help me through the morning. 
I did extremely well - 1 foil sig (Tait), 1 5000 run (I Chappell), 1 Gem (S Waugh), and in the 7th pack I could see an Elite sig sitting in there! I put it aside to save until the end, extremely excited about who it might be........hopefully a Hughes, or a Watson....gee maybe even a Haddin would be nice. Well, I pulled the card out of the pack and staring back at me was...
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ANDREW MCDONALD!
I have never been so excited and then so shattered in all my life!! I know I shouldn't be complaining (memories of Liam's Allan Border TTM come flooding back as i write this!!), but dammit I'm filthy!! I temporarily forgot he was in the set and I can only hope when i redeem it it comes back blank like yours did Graham!!
What it did do though was remind me of how much has changed even just over the course of this summer - if Select were putting together an Elite signature set now, Bollinger would be a certainty instead of McDonald, and the Hauritz Elite would now probably be a better pull than the North which was not the case at the start of the summer. Hilfenhaus and Siddle are both out injured, while Watson's stocks have continued to rise, and it seems as though Phil Hughes is still the man in waiting - who knows where his career will be in 3 or 4 years time - will he definietely be in the Test team? Time will tell...
Great effort by Select this year though, they nailed this 09/10 set. I hope there is a similarly high quality set next year.
I did extremely well - 1 foil sig (Tait), 1 5000 run (I Chappell), 1 Gem (S Waugh), and in the 7th pack I could see an Elite sig sitting in there! I put it aside to save until the end, extremely excited about who it might be........hopefully a Hughes, or a Watson....gee maybe even a Haddin would be nice. Well, I pulled the card out of the pack and staring back at me was...
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...
...
ANDREW MCDONALD!
I have never been so excited and then so shattered in all my life!! I know I shouldn't be complaining (memories of Liam's Allan Border TTM come flooding back as i write this!!), but dammit I'm filthy!! I temporarily forgot he was in the set and I can only hope when i redeem it it comes back blank like yours did Graham!!
What it did do though was remind me of how much has changed even just over the course of this summer - if Select were putting together an Elite signature set now, Bollinger would be a certainty instead of McDonald, and the Hauritz Elite would now probably be a better pull than the North which was not the case at the start of the summer. Hilfenhaus and Siddle are both out injured, while Watson's stocks have continued to rise, and it seems as though Phil Hughes is still the man in waiting - who knows where his career will be in 3 or 4 years time - will he definietely be in the Test team? Time will tell...
Great effort by Select this year though, they nailed this 09/10 set. I hope there is a similarly high quality set next year.
