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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Every Time Ref" data-source="post: 786603" data-attributes="member: 71826">Isn't this kind of the point? Saying that a player who has played one international game is "different gravy" from all the previous over-hyped failures mentioned, and that he would definitely have made a massive impact in his first five internationals, is a ridiculous level of hype based on very little.To be clear - I'm not saying I don't rate Slade highly. But let's stop pretending we know who is going to be World Class when they are 21, then acting all surprised when they're forgotten at 27. I think that was precisely the point of the post, and one I agree with.</blockquote>