The New Year is a time for resolutions.
If Morgan Morris is in the habit of making them, he's certainly not going to make a big fuss in revealing them. That's not his style.
"My hopes are just to play as much rugby as I can," he admits.
"I've had a couple of good years now. Hopefully I can just nail down that starting No. 8 jersey for the Ospreys and play week-in, week-out."
Of course, you imagine that isn't the full sum of his resolution. At least, not if the growing noise around the 23-year-old is to be believed.
Many an Ospreys fan believes it is only a matter of time before Morris receives a Wales cap.
One of Wales' finest who just so happens to be quite popular down in Ospreylia, Shane Williams, has compared him to Scott Quinnell.
There are worse players to be likened to.
"It's a nice comparison," says Morris, perhaps a little uncomfortable with such a likeness being thrown his way. "If I have half the career he has, I'll be happy.
"You can see everything Scott has done over his career. It's pretty good to be compared to him.
"I'm not sure. I've got to do more to be on his level and achieve more in my career."
Perhaps his club coach, Toby Booth, is a little better-placed to pass comment on such a comparison.
"The first thing he's most disappointed about is being compared to Scott Quinnell as he thinks he's better-looking!" jokes Booth.
"Besides that, the similarities as a player are very complimentary. He's an advert of what we're trying to do here - give young players opportunities and breed them for the long-term.
"He's one of them who has developed consistently. He's been a dominant ball-carrier. We're trying to bring the defensive side of the game on as well as he can offer things at the jackal too."
So, with the hype growing on the back of some eye-catching performances, and comparisons to the likes of Quinnell only going to amplify matters, maybe there's more to his resolution than just doing well in a black jersey throughout 2022.
"Obviously I think about Wales," he admits.
"Every player does want to go to the next step and progress as far as you can. The important thing is playing for the Ospreys at the minute.
"There's senior players still to come back so there's competition for spaces in the back-row. Unless I'm starting every week for the Ospreys, I can't get too far ahead."
Soon, he'll be fighting for back-row places with some of the returning senior stars, but he's all too ready to admit how much he's learned from his peers too.
"Since I've been in the academy and training with the first team, guys like Justin Tipuric and Dan Lydiate have been brilliant," he says.
"Picking their brains, coming up to me and helping me with my roles and little tips.
"Little things and snippets that go a long way. It's been amazing."
He's yet to have any direct contact with Wayne Pivac or any of his coaching ticket, but that only seems a matter of time - particularly with how few No. 8s Welsh rugby seems to produce.
Virtually every region has been without a traditional ball-carrying Welsh No. 8 at one point or another in the past few years.
"There's definitely an opportunity there, with the lack of No. 8s overall in Wales. But I'm focused on the Ospreys now. If that comes, I'll give my all. But I need to be playing every week here first and foremost."
Ultimately, all he can do is keep putting in the type of all-action performances that have started to get people talking - something Booth is keen to stress.
"I've got a pretty uniformed answer as we get this a lot with many of our players," added the Ospreys boss.
"Ultimately, their performance has to do the talking for them. Then you do your job and they're in the forefront of any selection conversations.
"All they can do is put in good performance after good performance. If they're the right player for that team, they'll get selected.
"He needs to just carry on maintaining the standards he's set and that's all he can control."
Do that and 2022 might just be Morgan Morris' year.
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