Shaun Edwards seems to have just about mastered the art of coaching and motivation, but if he has a weak point it may well have been revealed on Sunday in his inability to keep a lid on his expectations for Danny Cipriani.

Edwards had just seen the 20-year old execute two gliding outside breaks and soft offloads to Dominic Waldouck that both ended in tries for his team mate, plus a kick the width of the field that tumbled end over end through the air before bouncing so perfectly for Paul Sackey that he could have signed a few autographs in the crowd before pouching the ball to score.

“He’s not the worst player I’ve ever seen,” began the Wasps defence coach, who also alluded to the “rough edges” that still need to be smoothed out in the youngster’s game as he strained to avoid heaping yet another guilt edged appraisal on his player’s shoulders.

Rough edges there most definitely still are, highlighted by the missed tackle that led to Saracens’ opening score.

But when the good so heavily outweighs the slightly iffy, even a taskmaster as notoriously hard to please as the gruff defence coach found it hard to hold back.

“People come to watch the game to watch players like Danny, it’s why you pay your admission fee, the kid’s on his way to being a superstar,” said Edwards.

The fact is, with Daniel Carter injured and - if the rumours are true - unhappy with his lot in the rugby goldfish bowl of New Zealand, if there is a better fly-half than Cipriani playing the game at this moment, he does not reside on this planet.

With Jonny Wilkinson now seemingly injured out of England’s trip to New Zealand this summer, Cipriani can deservedly take centre stage.

And if he makes a mistake, which he inevitably will, the beauty of Cipriani’s approach to the game - which contrasts so starkly to that of the man he has usurped - is that he will have forgotten about it the moment the deed is done.

At his young age he seems to have grasped what it took Wilkinson most of his career to realise. There is no such thing as a perfect performance, and there is most certainly no chance of achieving perfection when you allow yourself to be cloaked in a fear of failure.

What you can do, as a player of so much natural ability, is to impose yourself as Cipriani did in that first 40 minutes against Saracens, and turn a chink in your opponent’s armour into gaping caverns for you and your team mates to pour through.

Those chinks were plentiful in the first half at Saracens on Sunday but they will be less easy for Cipriani to spot in New Zealand.

He will back himself to find them, and if he does, few will be able to refrain from heaping further plaudits atop Edward’s latest effort.