Shaun Ainscough

Quote: Saddened! "Does so.

I put

"Dear Ian,

As a fan of rugby league and a lover of the sport and not just my club, Wigan Warriors, I am dismayed to read the comments posted onto the Twitter social networking site by Shaun Ainscough. I follow a lot of players on the site, I find it an interesting insight into the lives of the characters and personalities that play this great game. I particularly enjoy reading the thoughts of intelligent, well respected people such as Richie Mathers.

I read Shaun's at the weekend following St Helens' sensational defeat of local rivals the Warrington Wolfs. His updates included the following"Thanks for all your support all I need is a chance and guaranty I take it laaaaa **** the critics eat poop all u dowters eat poop"[/i

I did wonder if perhaps he was referring to you with the last statement after him being sent out on dual registration so much this season.

[i"Not happy with a previous message fuk I can't wait till I get the chance at the big time 500% I will take it **** all u who dnt like me"[/i

Whilst I find the the overall message here to be agreeable, him wanting to prove his doubters wrong, I don't feel that a player representing this great club should be using such hurtful and offensive language in the public domain.

[i"Yeaaaaaa lads r chuffed saints r scum Warrington eat poop haha warriors r us "[/i

I am an ardent Wigan Warriors supporter, a season ticket holder of some 52 years and I have nothing but respect for our great rivals St Helens. I find this language and aggressive tone completely unacceptable, particularly as these comments have been made in the public domain.

[i"Come on u saints scummy c*#t$ "[/i

I actually wept when I read this. I find the content of this 'tweet' to be wholly unacceptable. I dispair of the youth of the town and find it truly disheartening that a club representative should utter such words.

[i"With all team watchen game come on saints it's so wrong but feals so wright lol"[/i

This update implies that Shaun is not educated to a standard that one would expect of a representative of this great club. I understand that Shaun's online rantings are outside of your direct control, but I find the whole thing highly offensive and totally and utterly out of character for this great sport. As another great supporter of the Wigan club I am sure you will agree entirely with the shock and dismay I felt upon reading these posts. Instead of articulate and insightful postings about the sport all I was able to read on Shaun's tweets was an aggressive and offensive diatribe.

Yours sincerely,

Mr O. Rogue (74, Wigan)'"

For some reason Ian’s reply came to my email?

Quote: Saddened! "“Dear Mr O. Rogue,
Wasthematter wiv u?

Ower shorn is well educashoned and got a dergree in inglish at our collage of educashon. jus cos he sez wot he meens dusnt meen u shud disrespect him.

At this tyme u shud support him in his our of need not criticize his plane speeking.
Anyway he didn’t no that anyone was acking in2 his tweet and so it woz private, so their!

But we have castrated him - sorry castigated him 4 suportin scummy saints as we no that althow we no they a miles better than our pie teem, we r not aloud to say it in pubic.

We no were u live!

Yours simply
Ian Lenegan”'"