thought they'd cut it out, but apparently it went to air. Packer wasn't impressed. Got hauled over the coals for that one! In 1979 Gilmour, reflecting on WSC, said: "I don't think I would have rushed into it like I rushed into it before." In 2003 he would reflect that from "a financial point of view" joining World Series Cricket was the correct decision but "from a career point of view... I don't know. The jury's still out." Gilmour said "From the cricket point of view, World Series Cricket was the hardest couple of years I've ever played in my life. "But on the other aspect – my position in the Australian side – it seems, [from looking at] the players that the Australians picked for the establishment, I think I could have made it and probably could have finished up financially about the same – for playing less cricket. But I don't think it would have done my game any good because I know that playing World Series Cricket – it was tough – I think it made me a lot better cricketer." Final years Following the end of World Series Cricket, Gilmour only played two more first-class games for New South Wales. "They had me earmarked for destruction," he later claimed of the Australian cricket establishment. He began the 1979–80 season well taking 5–35 and scoring 35 in a trial game. He was selected in the NSW side for the first Sheffield Shield game of the season, against WA. He took two catches and went for 0–93 and 1–11. He was dropped for the next game in favour of Richard Done. When asked if he thought he would get back in the Australian side, Gilmour said ""I dunno. It's going to be hard. It goes on performances too well in this game, so I've... been put in the back for a while." He added that "When I finish up [cricket], I'll finish up completely. I've been playing first-class cricket for about 10 years and what cricket's given to me I think I've put back into it. It's taken a lot of time out of my life and. I'm married and I've got two kids and I think I've sacrificed a lot in those 10 years just to play cricket, so I think when I finish I'll finish with cricket and start something else". Gilmour was recalled to play