Ingram was as inconsistent as the rest of them when he played four day cricket for all of last season, but I heard him described as the best one day batsman in domestic cricket at one time during the summer, so being without him all season in the Championship has to be a huge miss for the club.
Similarly, I'm not convinced the batting would have been much better if Cooke had been there for the second half of the season, but if you're a Glamorgan coach or official called to task by the Committee to explain our very poor four day results and batting performances towards the end of this season, you are bound to cite the absence of these two players as a reason for all of the defeats.
I'm not sure what more Morris could do in terms of bringing youngsters through and the most encouraging thing about our Championship season is the way so many of them have shown at times that they have the quality to make a decent career for themselves in the game.
If there has been a failure, it's been that the batsmen you rely on most have not been consistent enough - Bragg has done better than normal to be fair, but Rudolph has been dreadful, Wallace has been given responsibilities which he would have struggled to cope with in his batting pomp and Cooke was his usual up and down self when he played.
To me, Glamorgan are a bit like England in that, when they are behind in a game and have to bat a second time, they nearly always fold and end up losing heavily. Both sides tend to score their runs quickly, but England struggle to build partnerships and have only one or two players who I have confidence in to bat long and responsibly - with Rudolph having such a nightmare season, there isn't one player in the Glamorgan side I feel like that about currently!
I'd prefer to give Croft and Morris another season where, hopefully, everyone is fit (Rudolph spoke about Ingram playing four day cricket again in that interview I mentioned earlier) - I'm not wholly convinced that the experienced men at the top of the order will be able to deliver the goods, but Donald, Lloyd and Selman are developing cricketers and you'd like to think there'd be a bit more to come from them.