A game we lost incidentally, and last time i checked castleford are having a crap year and widnes are underachieving too. Some fans are quick to forget how crap we were last year before we dropped him. Get rid!

Brilliant.





Reminds me of my owd dad (god rest his soul), he was a carpet fitter and on a shopping trip to Manchester in the early 90's saw a billboard for "Inspiral Carpets" and thought it was a new firm opening up.

The fines always make me laugh, £25? I've had worse parking fines!

They should pay the fine in 1p's, just to the RFL off.

He's 20, not 17. You pick basic defence up when your in the under 10s. Its alright going on about how many tries he's scored, but how many has he let in? Against Harlequins for example, he came back for one game and failed to not just catch, but even jump for the high balls put to him, resulting in 2 tries. First we fired him off to Cas, and now Widnes, please explain to me why we would do this if he was a fantastic winger?? He's fast, thats it. There's nothing more I love to see than a young Wiganer coming through the ranks and playing for his home town club, but on this particular occasion he's made it clear he's to much of a liability, and as I said, in my opinion will end up in NL1.

Someone knows his mini from his mod

You can't fault his desire to make it as a wigan player and for that i wish he would. However he is, and never will be good enough. He lacks what many people refer to as a 'rugby brain', that instinct to be in the right place at the right time whether it be in attack or defense. However good the coach that cannot be tought. National league is his level and, with regret that is where he will end up.

He will be a SL winger for his career, Cas would have him in a heartbeat. He has much more than pace as well, he has fantastic strength and agility. Sadly i think there are issues beyond his playing that will ensure he does not full fill his potential at Wigan.

Is this the same Ainscough that some said HAD to be the side above Roberts?

I cannot understand this argument. i am a big fan of Roberts and his form this year has been awesome, but in his first season he struggled and showed some massive frailties same with Richards in his first season to be fair. Bear in mind these 2 were top class experienced NRL players when they came to us, what was their issue confidence, so many are quick to slate a junior player with obvious ability but certain flaws, and wonder why he struggles.



The same people slated Pryce who with a run of games has gained confidence and opinion changes.





The best though is Goulding who has walked 95% of his tries in all year and been shakey on defence to say the least but some make him out to be top class.



I do not live in Wigan, but I can only assume Ainscough must have upset a lot of people off the field to get the stick he does after the returns he has provided, and the latitude offered to other lads in his position.

Neither can I understand the logic in this apparent anti-Ainscough bitterness, though I suspect it stems from something else.



Last season, when everything still seemed to be going wrong at Wigan, Ainscough emerged as a poster boy for many of those who were getting fed up with Brian Noble. Ainscough, they (rightly, IMO) said, did not deserve to be dropped after the start he made to the season. He became the living embodiment of Nobby's weird and ultimately unsuccessful selection process. To a lesser extent, Ainey also became a whip with which to beat Ian Lenagan - it was argued that we should never have signed Amos Roberts when we had such a good young winger in the camp already (though I still believe that Roberts was at least partly signed as cover for full back).



Others, of course, disagreed (both about Nobby and IL). These were entrenched positions, which for a brief time brought out the beast in everyone. Every disagreement about the relative merits of the coach and the chairman seemed to come back to the Ainscough issue. A similar thing had happened a year earlier with Mick Higham, though that dissipated after he left. Ainscough is still with us, of course, so that dispute is still raging, and, if anything, getting more and more personal.



My own view is that Roberts has now turned out to be a far better player than Ainscough, so that specific argument is over. But Pryce getting Ainscough's place is a slightly different matter. He has been poor throughout his time with us up until a couple of weeks ago, yet seems to have been given more chances than Ainscough. This may be down to something as simple as us not being able to loan Pryce out, though it could also be that Maguire and Wane see something in him that they don't (yet) see in Ainscough.



As I trust Maguire a lot more than I'd come to trust Nobby, I'm happy to accept their judgement. But I still don't see why so many fans are now coming out with the "I always thought Ainscough was crap" argument.

I think he deserves a chance. But only if he can keep whatever made him fight under control because last thing we need is a sending off in a big game.

I think he has potential i mean just look at the form he had at cas he was free scoring. I think if he startss to jump for the kicks etc he will start fielding some, grow in confidence and then he will/should be brilliant.