If the Conference South turned him into an ugly centre-half then it is the international stage where Fraser Franks is showing his footballing intelligence.
Every footballer will tell you he knows the exact moment when Old Father Time told him to retire. His call to me came at the end of a 2007-08 season during which red-hot strikers like Jon Main had been getting too quick for me.
Kidderminster Harriers pulled off a award-winning double in December, with Steve Burr and Jamille Matt winning the Manager and Player of the Month gongs.
It was appropriate for Wayne Hatswell to announce he was hanging up his boots on FA Cup first round weekend, exactly 12 years after his name first came to prominence on Match of the Day.