Ainscough is a much better option, he has been solid under the high ball and he gets caught of position a lot less often than Raynor. He is also our only true pace in the team, which with the number of break away tries Leeds score it could come in very handy.

Id say platt give ainy a good run for his money in speed.

Platt has some decent pace when in full flow but Ainscough appears to be a lot quicker off the mark. Explosive power and pace from a standing/slow start is what we miss in this squad.

Raynor is pretty quick too

He's certainly not slow for a big guy.

Our right hand side of Platt and Ainy has been one of the few good things we've had going for us this year. They're an affective partnership which it would be foolish to break up. But MP has made a couple of odd selections this year already

I'd hope this wasn't the case but we shall see. As Diligaf said there is alot of rugby to be played over the next week so lets see what happens at 7:30 tonight when the teams announced!

Come On You Bulls!!!

I agree with "debaser". Raynor's positioning in defence is terrible. He almost always comes inside and leaves his opposite number a clear run in. I'm surprised an experienced winger like Raynor makes such schoolboy errors. Hopefully Potter has had a word with him about this.....but I don't hold out any hopes.

Perhaps Raynor would better if he had a centre inside him who could tackle

Maybe tonight he'll be paired with Platty, in which case I'd expect him to have more confidence in his centre partner and stay out on the wing

Is this not the problem we had last season with Reardon and coming in off the wing?

Should have gone for ainscough tonight, raynor never saw daylight, ainy is rough aggressive and a fighter he would have helped our cause tonight, get him in for France

He'll play on Monday I'm sure