But had Ronan O'Gara been picked at 10 for Ireland instead, surely the Munster veteran would have been thrown the ball and asked to take a punt.
The latter is hardly ever seen, but instead surely imagined: some long-haired hippie wearing a combination of tie-dye and local hand-made fabrics, sitting around a fire strumming a guitar and singing kum-ba-yah while little dark-skinned children dance about.
But the costs of marketing and recouping investment in bespoke drugs for a tiny pool of patients do retard progress in the pharmaceutical industry; a law that clarified and highlighted physicians' right to innovate on the wards instead would surely give the frontiers of progress a useful nudge.
Instead it must surely mean a renewed determination to challenge unaccountable power and dehumanisation.
Instead, slowly but surely, viruses are starting to be seen as a source of a diverse array of molecular tools that can be utilized toward vaccine development and modulation of the immune system.
Surely instead, it would be justice for a court to forensically assess a victim's losses – and then squeeze their abuser's bank accounts until they're dry.
Instead, they should surely tap into the great wellspring of public interest in and curiosity about scientific enquiry, as evidenced by the eager audiences for public lectures, panel discussions, radio talks and TV programmes.
Swiss firms, already short of bright recruits, are stepping up their efforts to lure young Germans, many of whom say they want to work abroad.After years when many young people scorned private enterprise and chose professional and public-service careers instead, it is surely a good thing that more of them should plump for jobs that contribute directly to economic growth.
We use the standard abbreviations 'a.s.' and 'i.i.d.' instead of 'almost surely' and 'independent identically distribution', respectively.
Surely, instead of conducting a "witch hunt" to find the culprit, she said, they should be congratulated for performing a public service.
In terms of the other seamers spot, instead of Bresnan, surely the selctors should be looking at young players from round the countys, who could emulate Finn - someone like Woakes, who's already playing for the Lions.
