There's some big names on the bench, namely Mike Phillips and Gethin Jenkins, and it's great to have that experience to call on in the latter stages of the game.
He has a team built around him and eight years of experience to call on, meaning he can target stages which arenot pure sprint days.
It is challenging viticulture, which explains the industry tradition of families such as the Symingtons, with 13 generations' experience to call on in making port.
At night, there are either one or two obstetric trainees resident on-call, depending on experience, and one on-call consultant who is non-resident.
At the end of the day, she said, it must be a carefully deliberative judgment call, based on experience and expertise.
That meant a happy return for Leon Pryce, who scored 73 tries in 160 appearances for St Helens but was mostly subdued until calling on his vast experience in the Catalans' comeback.
It was an understandable move to call on his experience when the government took office.
Meg Lanning said her side were able to call on the experience of winning crunch matches from sticky situations.
"I often call on childhood experience of being on the farm, or staying in mining towns with my father, but never intending nostalgia.
"I can call on my experience now – I never thought I would ever say that, I feel like I am 18 still – and use it to my advantage and help my team as well".
But if he does find a seat at the Department of Energy and Climate Change in the next parliament, maybe he could do worse than call on the experience of Miliband and the knowledge of people like Prof Parker, the unexpected hero of the evening.
