He has forwards to return from injury but his major dilemmas lie behind, although the way New Zealand dealt with the running threat of Billy Vunipola highlighted how much of a step-up the tour was from the Six Nations.
The leak, earlier this month, of the N.L. M.V.P. Ryan Braun's failed drug test helps give the lie to the oft-repeated claim that, by humiliating Bonds and Clemens in such extended fashion, we have put the performance-enhancement dilemma behind us.
Of course, one of the dilemmas of any "behind-the-scenes-of-finery" television – Inside Claridges, Restaurant Wars, Michel Roux's Service – is that the guest is set up to look like a pampered fop and the staff brainwashed forelock-tuggers.
As radicalised young Muslims increasingly join the conflict, what of the families - and the political dilemma - they leave behind?
Meanwhile, lurking behind these ethical dilemmas, is the suspicion that tech and pharma companies stand to make millions from pushing these questionable technologies and therapies, thereby widening the gap between the "superhuman haves" and the "human have-nots".
Root has solved the issue of who should bat at three, at least for the moment, but behind that lie several critical dilemmas.
In works such as In Siberia, Among the Russians and Behind the Wall, Colin Thubron has teased these dilemmas into rich, poetic prose.
Instead, we have a curious practice in this country of hiding behind pieces of paper when confronted with moral dilemmas.
Where Woody Allen presents contemporary intellectual and moral dilemmas through a filter of irony and doubt, Benigni tries to hide behind the innocence of the buffo.
