If you are trying to get a handle on Jonah Lomu's comeback, and more importantly his future, take your pick.
While the reviews of his hour for Cardiff against Calvisano were consistent, predictions about his prospects covered a wide range.
The Observer and the Independent were cautiously optimistic about Lomu'sAll Black prospects while making it clear he is light years away from that standard now.
The Times however laid it on the line, cutting through the nonsense.
While writing that "no one wants to dispel the dream of the greatest star the game has known", correspondent Matthew Pryor stated, "he does not seem a well man. Much as he wants it, and much as the world wants to hear it, Jonah Lomu is not going to play for the All Blacks again."
And Pryor warned that a sporting freak could turn into a freak show.
He claimed that Lomu had "trouble walking and his eyes were half closing" and doubted if he would play much more professional rugby.
He hoped that the 30-year-old Lomu and those around him knew what they were up to, and were not blinded by financial gain.
I, for one, can only assume that a mixture of vanity and insanity has led a man with a life-threatening condition, and the gift of a replacement kidney, back into such a physically demanding and dangerous sport.
You only had to look at All Black hooker Derren Witcombe, neck in a brace at last week's shambolic People's Choice awards, to know it is not for the faint hearted or bodied.
On a similar note, the time may have come when brilliant All Black flanker Richie McCaw has to consider the heartbreaking decision to retire because of continuing headaches. It is, after all, only a game.
Even - fantasy upon fantasy - should Lomu make it back in black, would it have really been worth the risk? If those like Pryor continue to speak the truth then maybe, just maybe, the message will get through to the person who most needs to hear it.
