Most new SNP MPs will be inexperienced, not all will love or want to follow the wily Alex Salmond.
This means he is inexperienced, but also untainted by any of Malawi's recent scandals.
Scottish Labour will need to find its sixth leader in eight years from a small and largely inexperienced pool of potential candidates at Holyrood after losing 39 of its 40 Westminster MPs in the catastrophic defeat at the general election.
Ryan Harris has welcomed the handful of inexperienced additions to an otherwise "stock standard" England squad for the return Ashes tour, saying the uncertainty around their best batting options will play into the hands of Australia.
Hodgson will be sweating on the outcome of Sturridge's scan, especially given the England boss is already having to take an inexperienced squad to St Jakob Park.
Yet, while patience will be required with his inexperienced lineup, there remain serious doubts over the partnership between Rooney and Sturridge.
I started writing about being Muslim and female and Asian for the Observer's comment pages when I was young and inexperienced.
Politically inexperienced SNP candidates and organisers may hold the party back in seats such as Paisley and Renfrewshire South, where the 20-year-old SNP candidate Mhairi Black is dividing her time between revision for university finals and fighting Labour's national election campaign director, Douglas Alexander.
To the dismay of inexperienced politicians in his left-dominated coalition, creditors have dug in their heels with cash reserves drying up inexorably as negotiations over a deal to unlock further bailout funds have gone to the wire.
Using his courier system Bin Laden could still exercise an element of operational control over al-Qaida, but increasingly the men he was directing were younger and inexperienced, the fugitive leader complained.
While no one would recommend inexperienced climbers tackle skyscrapers, perhaps we should just let rooftoppers take the risks they want to take.
