There is always a tinge of sadness when any footballer leaves his boyhood club, not least at a time in the Premier League when young English players aren't so much nurtured gently to maturity as yanked squealing into the light and then hurled beneath the wheels of the machine at the first downward wrench of the gears.
But I had a reservation; not so much about whether he would look right as about whether he had the maturity to understand.
Having said that, there's increasing evidence that diverting 10-20%, depending on market maturity, of TV budgets to YouTube will straight up improve a campaign simply by adopting a platform-neutral and people-focused approach.
My daughter always has a right to feel but it's how she deals with it that brings maturity.
Back then, when boys reached the age of 13, they transitioned into pants as sign of maturity.
In Belgium, a country now irrigated by a constant stream of footballing prodigies, it is virtually accepted that he will one day inspire his country: he may play in a different position to Vincent Kompany but he radiates the same maturity and authority that the Manchester City and Belgium captain showed for Anderlecht at a similar age.
The film was praised as announcing a new maturity in French cinema, reflecting the complicated sexual and racial tensions at the core of the relations between the coloniser and the colonised.
We know from audience research that viewers want credible newscasters, that maturity is allied with trust.
We were told that the British economy was in as desperate a situation as Greece; the truth was that the Greek government did not know where the next month's loans were coming from, whereas money was pouring into London and the average maturity on government stock was 14 years.
The success of the 28-year-old, who may be handed an England debut in Sunday's friendly with the Republic of Ireland in Dublin, has been fuelled by a growing maturity and self-awareness, what Seddon describes as "getting his head right".
With everyone waiting for GWS and Gold Coast to explode into maturity and the expected sustained excellence of teams like Hawthorn, Fremantle, Sydney and Port Adelaide, how will the Bulldogs evolve from such a low point in their history?
