Leuluai
Palea'aesina
Smith

Phelps is hit and miss for me. Basically the choice is for next year Ainscough or Phelps for a front line shirt.

I appreciate on a couple of occasions Phleps has linked really well from 1, but in defence he is technically shocking and i see no reason to praise that. In the end his lack of technique will cause him a major injury or a crucial miss.

Made some great one on one tackles tonight.....

Phelps is the best option at fullback. So his selection is nothing to do with Ainscough. Ainscough has to fight with Roberts/Richards for his place.

You are forgetting that John rarely goes to games..............


Frankly, if he spent the time in English classes it would be understandable, but it appears that he spends the time elsewhere.................

How is it between Phelps and Ainscough? Phelps is better than Roberts, Richards and Ainscough at fullback. So unless we sign Billy Slater, Phelps should be our fullback. The other 3 can fight for the wing spots.

Not see my post

But fwiw, I agree

Salford broke our line about 3 times from deep and Phelps put try saving tackles in each and every time.

He's as brave as they come and is doing a fine job at fullback.

Maybe long term we'll need to look at the position but at the moment i'm more then happy to keep Phelps there for at least the rest of this season and probably next year aswell.

Exactly, it certainly isn't a priority in the next year or two.

We've got bigger fish to fry haven't we.

A prop for 09, a halfback for 09 and then another prop for 2010 before we look at the fullback position.

Maybe we'll find a longer term solution from within. How highly rated is Josh Vievers?

Roberts and Richards are on long term deals Phelps is not. Ainscough looks like facing another year on the sideline if Phelps resigns and on top of that if it is anything more than a 1 year deal will seriously hamper our quota situation for 2011.

Personally i think it would be a huge error to hold Ainscough back for another year, and a very dangerous tactic too regards retaining his services for the future, there are many clubs in both codes queuing up for him.

Although not at Wigan Roberts has shown himself to be a far superior fullback than Phelps, we need to bite the bullet give him a run at 1 next season as that is where his future at Wigan is. A run of games and i am certain Roberts will come good as a 1.

Was dreadful under the high ball tonight.

Umm. He missed one?

More than one from my seat.

Was good in everything else he did.

Which seat? The one at home?