Aside from Walker, as well as Farrell played, he's not physically ready for a starting spot yet given his troubles with cramp at the hour mark and Mossop for now appears a better impact option from the bench, as he noticeably tired in the second half and switched off from some defensive assignments down the right flank (wasn't alone).

Ainscough doesn't have good enough concentration on his positioning to be a top level SL winger at present, so I'd say he isn't mentally ready.

Couldn't argue with the above. It did appear that the team as a whole were tiring as the match went on.

Well if you had been concentrating you would have seen Bailey shouting to Ainscough who he wanted him to cover and who he had got covered. With Bailey at the side of him he had no chance from the start.

Ainscough may as well of brought a chair on and sat down. The ball never got out to him enough, the two or three times he got the ball he made ground and looked dangerous. It was inside him where the whole Quins team seemed to steam through. Phelps got mullered a couple of times for pace especially the first try as well. Our squad maybe isnt as strong as we thought.

Ainscough isn't a scapegoat for last night by any stretch, I thought Bailey was awful in defence also - at least Ainscough has the excuse of first team inexperience, whilst making one notable cover tackle in the first half on an accelerating Kevin Penny and being generally starved of the ball.

Our whole right side defence got torched several times in the second half. I dont think injuries can be a valid excuse because there was still enough quality out there in Wigan colours to have won the game. The chances were there to be turned into tries but 2nd half but we just didn't take them

Quick question - which side of the defence had been completely reshuffled as a consequence of the injuries?

That was my point but you said it better lol!!!

I was trying to say he was in the position he was told to be in by his team mate. I heard him shouting to him!

How often are Amos or Pat given the ball? They MAKE things happen themselves.

Why respond to them.....

Yeah no ones ever puts them through with a nice pass Every try they score is down to them alone and no one else is involved. Gleeson and Carmont are surplus to requirements as they don't need their centres

Dave

Very subjective after one game. So does Shaun Ainscough and it was this quality that won our first game of last season against Harlequins.

One game? Eh?

And no it wasn't.

Very?