Asked about Shaun Ainscough's absence, Brian told us,

"He is fine, that element of duty of care we have for players is important, whilst he is scoring all those tries it is exciting but there are parts of his game he needs to work on, as there are with other players. I wanted to see Roberts, Richards and Phelps which offered a lot of threat for us but he will be back



nobles thoughts of warriors site

As I posted on another thread BEFORE the game. Ainscough has done well, but has made major errors that need to be removed from his game. Today was an ideal game to give both him and Sam a bit of a rest.

I personally can't see anything wrong with it tbf.

Everyone including Noble knows who our best/liveliest winger has been this season and I’m sure resting him this week won’t change anything.

Phelps had a strong game against Saints, Richards is out of sorts this season due to injury & swapping between FB and wing so Celtic was the perfect game for them to get some game time and confidence.

Maybe Roberts has been lucky but again I think out of the two of him and Ainscough he’s the one who needs to get a confidence boost and score a few tries.

I’d rather Noble have a look at other options in a game like this than having them forced on him in games like Saints or Leeds.

The latter I would have thought unless of course Noble thinks he needs to play these two against the stronger teams. Tomkins played most of the game anyway but it seemed an odd choice to me as playing Ainscough would have given Richards another weeks recovery time.

Dave

Not that tripe again. It was only a couple of weeks ago it was "it doesn't matter how old you it's how you play that counts" (or words to that effect) while talking about Ainscough. He needs to make his mind up.

If he had just said he wanted to try out a different combination, fair enough but this duty of care thing is a load of baloney IMO.

Dave

What he has said today in no way relates to what he said a couple of weeks ago, they are totally seperate points.

Dave, Ainscough is making mistakes time and time again. He made many of the same mistakes at academy level.

He is a very promising young winger, but had that been Mathers or Pryce many on here would have been calling for his head.

Noble was right today.

I have never known opinion divided on so many of our players, Roberts & Phelps were the targets of those around me today.

I agree.

Rogue our club could commit murder and you would back them

You have been watching games at Orrell long enough to know that any faults displayed by Ainscough were displayed by him during those 3 years. Who has been the head coach of Wigan RLFC in those 3 years? Exactly Mr Duty Of Care. Why in 3 years did he not eradicate such faults? Why in those 3 years did he leave the boy to rot in the Academy which is even less taxing than the Reserves? Why was he not sent out on loan for a season? The only reason Ainscough even got in the reserves was after he played so well for England v Aus that Noble and co had no choice but to move him up. Where is Mr Duty Of Care in all this. What was the Duty of Care in stringing Priest along in the reserves and then dumping him. Will the same happen to JWalker?

Why did Mr Duty of Care not have season long loans arranged pre season for players? I think you have as good an idea as I do what Mr Noble was up to pre RLWC and during/after.

I will wager you this Rogues. Had Hansen been fit Joel Tomkins would not have played today. Have you not woken up to how the lad has been treated recently by Mr Noble? At the back half of last season Joel Tomkins was one of several players who got Mr Duty Of Care out of the mire.

This season Ainscough and Tomkins have both saved Mr Durty of Care's job and how does he repay them. exactly. Two boys playing out of position because as you known Ainscough is a right winger and Sam is a left sided half.

Loyalty, Meaningful is worth far more that rhetoric duty of care garbage spouted by a guy who thinks he's on a chef programme.

There's only one Charlie Seeling

Well said that man.

It was a game that allowed the academy grade players to get a game, like Smith.