I was actually thinking the other way around to be honest. Carney was very quick over the full distance whereas Robinson, like Ainscough, was electric over the first 30-40 but wasn't the fastest over the full track.

I seem to recall reading something about speed when he was at Wigan. May have been in an interview I think. Apparently, he was quickest over 40m but Radlinski, Dallas and Renouf were all faster over 100m.

in all honesty how often do players go on over a 40m break?

The amount of young Wigan players that go on to play for other clubs has actually made watching the opposition a lot more interesting for Wigan fans and its been interesting to see how the likes of Luke Robinson, Stephen Wild, Kevin Brown, Shaun Briscoe etc have performed since being shown the door.

Ainscough has suprised few people that saw him develop in the academy, he's a very confident player and as has already been mentioned he has been one of the few highlights of the season so far for Wigan.

Hope he stays grounded.

Me too. This is something which all young players need to do to become very successful, having the talent and staying grounded are definitely two fundamental attributes of a young player. I hope Shaun can do it.

Reminds me of Jason Robinson in that respect. Same explosive pace as you say over the first 40 or so metres, then seems to tail off.

Lets just hope he ends up like Robinson

Kris needs to have a chat with him, he wrote the book on staying grounded. Spoke to him after his first match and after his last match, same Kris, Proud to have played for his home town club

Ainscough is an exciting player and the idea he may get a feeling he's better then he is right now may happen.
If that does then they should certainly show him his trys.
Also if they want to bring him back down to earth then show him his airshot at the ball which allowed Scott Donald to score last Friday.
No doubt he's a terrific talent, he not the finished article by any means and to achieve that he needs to work at some aspects of his game.
At the moment he simply can't be dropped! He's far too good!

Lets just say if Ainscough was a 19 year old NRL import we'd be creaming ourselves with those performances. The fact he's homegrown is even better!

He looks a very good prospect. He'll let a few tries in from kicks due to lack of height - it's up to other players to protect him in that regard as well. Be interesting to see how he reacts to that - pray he's more Jason Robinson than Leroy Rivett.

Always knew Ainy would do well since he was a youngster. Got all the attributes

Easily solved by playing Pryce next to him in the same way the Bulldogs had Idris defending on the wing instead of the smaller EL Masri.