Comments on: Alex Loudon retires from cricket

By: Richard Marris

Richard Marris — Wed, 11 May 2011 12:26:04 +0000

Perhaps someone should ask public schoolboys if they really need all that coaching they get from retired county professionals.
Anybody can play cricket in this country but if you play it as a kid it’s not long before your heart sinks as the latest Eton rifle unloads his massive coffin from mummy’s Range Rover.
And then to find out that the kid who was coached within an inch of his life and took up a spot at your county’s academy was just marking time before his dad got him a job in the city… brilliant.

By: the scientician

the scientician — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:00:21 +0000

is Rob Key an alumnus of Dulwich College? Last time I checked, that was hardly a gritty inner city sink estate comp.

By: Miriam

Miriam — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:04:02 +0000

I just looked up Gavin Robertson and found this:

“The term “roller-coaster career” would probably rarely be more applicable to a player in first-class cricket than Sydney-born offspinner Gavin Robertson”.

I’m not sure that I would have described Loudon’s career as “roller-coaster”. If it were a fairground ride at all, it would maybe be the TopSpin.

By: Uncle J rod

Uncle J rod — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:38:44 +0000

But the question i have is was he any good? I’m getting a gavin robertson vibe off him.

By: Suave

Suave — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:40:06 +0000

Never allowing Etonians to become ‘Old’ would be a start!
I suggest we kill them all by lining Sir Robert Of Key up at the gate on graduation day, flinging full length balls at him, and letting him smash sublime cover drives at their heads all day.. Robert, Sir of Key, would be delighted, for the chance of a knock about (especially if we promise PIE), we’d be delighted at the end result, and surely the selectors would realise that they’d made a grave mistake (fearing for a sublimely timed cover drive to the head), and send him to Sri Lanka where he obviously belongs.

Huzzah

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:31:54 +0000

Personally I don’t think Old Etonians should be allowed to reproduce, let alone become professional cricketers.

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:22:21 +0000

Nads.

Let’s just say it was an opinion piece by one of our writers and we didn’t want to make it an official King Cricket editorial stance.

Yes. That’s what we were doing. It certainly wasn’t a mistake as might be indicated by the word ‘nads’ at the start this comment.

By: Jen

Jen — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:44:56 +0000

Heavens! I had always assumed that it would take a truly cataclysmic event to shock you out of the somewhat impersonal “we” and inspire a heartfelt, personal “I”.

I doubt even Alex Loudon could consider Alex Loudon’s retirement to be truly cataclysmic.

By: the scientician

the scientician — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:15:36 +0000

Have you even considered for a second that he might be retiring to become a professional monkey wrangler? Well? Have you?
hmm?