Our start to the season has been generally encouraging,

It didn't take a genius to figure out what he had athletically,

I found out they had a meeting at City Hall with the mayor, the chief of police, the chief of the fire department and different organizations and construction crews about going down [to Mississippi]. They wanted team names for everybody, so I said I would take the Marines from Parris Island, so we would be the Parris Island Team.

I am obviously gutted at missing out on this game, although I will have the phone to my ear for most of the time all the way from Tenerife. I have every faith that the boys will acquit themselves well and get a result.

We have to wait. We have to decide in another month what to do. But it will be another year until we know what will become of New Orleans.

This was the kind of game it's always going to be with Hunt,