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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vieux Talonneur" data-source="post: 1165762" data-attributes="member: 73144">I said on another thread that despite being fairly young he has a much higher effective playing age. Players only have so many years in the tank and if you start early as Curry did the odds are he'll finish earlier too. Conversely with Pearson who started top flight rugby much later.If he was advised to take a year out of all rugby to extend his career, that's one thing but I doubt he'd voluntarily just step away from England. Natural competitive instinct of the sportsman and, as you say, there are plenty of good options who would all sell their grannies to get his shirt. Time moves on very quickly and the graveyards are full of indispensable men. As news story of the week Just Call Me Dave once said to Blair "You were the future once".</blockquote>