Brad Hunt’s experience at Meadow Lane can be viewed as a microcosm of his first season at Moseley – lots of positives but many, many negatives.

That is not to say the 28-year-old was especially culpable for the recent 62-20 reverse in which Nottingham scored eight tries, seven through their dazzling backs division.

Indeed the wing was one of a handful of players to emerge with their reputations enhanced on an afternoon when the thin Red and Black defensive line had all the weight-bearing qualities of onion membrane.

In fact Hunt’s hat-trick was about the only highlight on an otherwise sobering occasion, as he took his total to five tries in seven starts and at least two of which were high-class strikes.

If his first, popping up in the shadow of the home posts to pick a mazy line through the Nottingham defence said everything about his work-rate and eye for a gap, his third demonstrated his clinical finishing.

With four minutes to go Hunt held his width after Ryan De La Harpe’s break down the left wing and picked Jack Adams’ pass off his boot-straps to slice down the opposite sideline and go in at the corner. Quality.

But, it seems there must always be a but this season, he had the misfortune that his triple counted for nothing.

“If we had have got four tries we would have at least got something out of the game,” he said.

“Personally, yeah I scored three tries but it doesn’t really matter who got those, it was a disappointing performance for everyone.”

The nature of those sentiments can be extrapolated across the entire campaign – both collectively and individually.

While Moseley have at times been almost incongruously incisive given the forward-oriented stuff of days gone or yore, they have also been horribly inconsistent.

And while Hunt’s switch to Billesley Common from Rotherham has gone well, he is the team’s top try scorer ahead of Andy Reay, Mike Ellery and Billy Robinson who have four, and has a far better strike rate.

Part of that is down to the fact he missed five weeks with a neck problem, one that ensures the ever-present but is required when summing up his move to Moseley. Brad Hunt has been a very good signing but that neck of his is a worry.

At least it would be to most of us. Such issues are viewed from a different starting point among rugby players both past and present.

“My dad played rugby, he just said I am soft and to get back out there. That’s the only advice I got (from my family).

“He said on Skype ‘What? Your neck? You don’t need that for rugby, you play on the wing. I played with no ears.’

“He played hooker and inside centre in New Zealand, he’s a fine figure of a man – with his ears ripped off. I think it was pretty rough back in the day.”