Completely agree. I am a Feka fan but his game is very limited, as is Ainscoughs. Madge is a stickler for defense and looks very hard at game stats in this area.

Thought Pryce might have been in line what with all the tries hes been scoring for the under 20's. Maybe Madge doesn't like what he sees

Fair comment, though his net return is still positive. It's a good (hypothetical) question, though: would you prefer someone to score 20 tries and concede 10, say, to one who scores 10 but has perfect defence?

Give me that option anytime.

Ditto. Any one of those ten tries conceded could in theory cost you a game, and 2 SL points with it. If I was a centre I'd want to have a winger outside me I coud trust to defend properly and be in the right position at all times

Sure, but that works both ways, any of those 20 scored could equally well win a game.

I think some of this stuff about Ainsough's defence is being exaggerated. I've been critical of him in the past, but I don't think he's the complete turnstyle that some are suggesting, or that anything we've seen of him at Cas should be a source of concern.

At Cas he was clearly playing in a woeful team. Against Huddersfield, they were flanked on a number of occasions - it wasn't just Ainscough, it was Shenton as well.

In fact, I've heard it's because of this that he's been brought home.

People are going overboard about Ainscough's try scoring abilities aswell.

Sure, but again that works both ways. He'd be equally as likely to score the winning tries in a close game, and concede tries like we did against Sheffield, when it didn't really matter.

I can see both sides..and I know Madge, too, prefers defence - I'm kinda playing "devil's advocate" here.

Perhaps so, though I'm not aware of anyone with a better tries per game ratio.

I get what you mean, but some of the one on one efforts to make a tackle have been very poor.... I honestly think people under dont see or accept how poor is defence can be. As for the big arugement that he scores alot of tries, well we havent exactly suffered with that this season, 3 out of the top 4 try scorers are from Wigan.

You can't say stuff like that.

Anyone that dares to say his defence isn't as bad as made out on here always get shot down.

The fact of the matter is that you’re right Cruncher his defensive lapses are majorly over exaggerated on here by some. The same people are very quick to rubbish his defence but never to acknowledge just how good he is in attack. That isn’t being blind to his defensive weaknesses but rather giving a balanced picture of his overall game.