Ageing a Herring Gull thanks to the ring (2n-cycle to 3rd-cycle)

Here is a Herring Gull that one would have aged as a 2nd-cycle in the field, were it not for its colour-ring:
http://picasaweb.google.be/Zorkyyy/3cHerringGullsColourRinged#5435611329511308658
http://picasaweb.google.be/Zorkyyy/3cHerringGullsColourRinged#5435611367016665906
http://picasaweb.google.be/Zorkyyy/3cHerringGullsColourRinged#5435611402146547714
Except for the colour-ring, there is not much that betrays this bird's true age. All primaries look really similar to 2nd-generation feathers: no white mirror, no white apical spots, slight brown tinge on inner primaries, only thin white tips to inner primaries. On the right wing, one or two inner secondaries show an adult-like pattern (blue-grey, with broad white tip), but such feathers are not present in the left wing, so, in theory, they could have been acquired through accidental loss. The only thing is probably the tail band, which is normally broader and more solid in 2nd winter.The primaries look like 2nd-generation, but the bird is a 3rd-cycle none the less. It was ringed as a pullus on 10 July 2007 and the pictures were taken on 7 Feb 2010.