Last night he looked very different to when we had him at the start of the season. He looked very low on confidence and dropped a bomb for a try and got caught out on a couple of 40-20's which he didn't do before with us.
Giving him a spell with us at a lower level than SL where he WILL regain his confidence will help him no end.
He's a very popular player with our fans and got a great cheer when his name was announced last night and I've no doubt he'll be great again for us like he was first time around.

Oh and Ben Davies is awesome. He will be the best prop in SL in a few years time. He absolutely loves the game, never stops running and never wants to come off.

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what has Shaun Ainscough ever done for us?

You asked a perfectly reasonable question. I once asked if Gaz Hock kept on making unforced errors because he knew he wouldn't get dropped and if he'd benefit from competition for places. I was shot down in flames and told how we can't cope without him. Lets see what happens if we get him back and he has to earn his place. I predict less brainfarts. Some players are untouchable

I agree I think he's been messed about a bit too much this season and needs a bit of stability with a team.

Ben Davies is an amazing player!

I think Wigan will get him back. Probably be up to him then to prove he deserves re-signing!

I think the lad aint good enough for wigan. He has had a few chances now and has bombed them all he is suspect in defence and suspect under the high ball, granted he can score tries but other players in the squad can finish justg as well. No-one can say he is as good as richards, roberts or goulding.

To be fair though he's young and there's time. I really thought prior to this season that Goulding was slowly letting his career at Wigan slip away, but hats off to the lad he's worked damn hard and been excellent this season on the wing. So I don't think anybody should write Ainscough off, he needs our support.

It's nothing to do with who signed the players.



He's not as bad as he's made out to be either. And to say he had his chance last week and was average is just ignoring the fact the rest of the team bar Farrell were average and he was stuck outside Bailey.

If Goulding had played and been left as exposed by Bailey as Ainscough was there is no way Goulding would have come in for any criticism and rightly so IMO as he has done well this season but people have quickly forgotten when Ainscough got this chance last season he did well also. It seems to count for nothing and I'd love to know why his mistakes are picked over to the degree that they are and other players are given the benefit of the doubt Phelps being the classic example.

One average game in the poorest Wigan side to take the field so far this season and he's blown his chance it seems with some.

Then we get someone posing the question does he have an attitude problem which is right out of left field IMO and is therefore just piling the agony on even more despite protestations it was only a question because regardless of what motivated it you can virtually guarantee some lunatic will repost it as fact because someone posed the question.

Dave

Goulding has been nothing short of brilliant this season. He's as solid as they come.

Dave, can I just ask you where the hell was this sentiment and backing from you last season during Pryce's appearances, again mostly during poor TEAM performances and being either played out of position or put outside Bailey and Phelps (where Karl actually did pretty well a couple of times)?

I full back your sentiments, I just find it slightly baffling how you can pick and choose your support so easily.