Veivers is coming out of retirement.

This club tends to ruin good wingers, so don't expect him to see much of the ball.

Thats so true, Calderwood is a class winger and we ruined him, when we got it out to him and got him involved he was quality. His defense improved with us as well.

Dallas? Carney? Offiah? Robinson? Richards? Boston?

Yeah... we ruin them

Indeed.

In Martin Offiah's six seasons with us, he averaged 31 tries per season.
With this current team I'd expect he would average about two-thirds less per season.

Offiah 6 seasons - average 31 tries per season.
Boston 15 seasons - average 31 tries per season
Robinson 9 seasons - average 19 tries per season
Richards 3 seasons - average 16 tries per season
Dallas 7 seasons - average 15 tries per season
Carney 5 seasons - average 10 tries per season (injury riddled last two years)


Actually Pat's ratio isn't bad considering. Although a high amount of his tries do come from kicks to the corner than general wingplay.

Compare this to:

Calderwood 3 seasons - average 10 tries per season.

Isn't the whole statistic thing Bilko's..thing??

Inside? Do you mean outside?

Not exclusively.

Well ill be damned, and here was me thinking he owned that style of making a point.

He didn't look too good last friday, shat himself at every opportunity. Glad we got rid.

Out of all the "young" players I must admit that the only one that I know enough about to pass an opinion on is Ainscough.

Imo he didn't put a foot wrong in his hit outs last year.

One year on and it's time for him to get his chance.

What's good about Ainscough is that he's very effective around the ruck area.

You'll see him pushing players out of the way to have a scoot and he makes good yards whilst at it. He's a very enthusiastic and alert player.

Yeah hes a workhorse winger. To be fair we havent really done much for our wingers over the last few years but to say we ruined Mark Calderwood is an utter joke. He was gash to start with - like Ade Gardner hes only any good if the centre inside him is class and puts things on a plate for him as well as cutting it up into bite size pieces to make it easier.

That's the impression I have got of him when I've seen him. Sort of like a potential Robinson/Carney type. If he can be half as good as one of them we've unearthed a gem.

Here is a video of Ainscough playing in Australia for England academy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZH4SvAjd6M He plays absolutely outstanding through out. Oh, and a great run by Liam Farrell too...

Here is a video of Ainscough playing in Australia for England academy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZH4SvAjd6M He plays absolutely outstanding through out. Oh, and a great run by Liam Farrell too...

Ainscough is the ideal winger for a Noble team but his lack of height makes Noble oblivious to this fact. In terms of scooting Ainscough is better than anybody else in the first team squad.

First try bet tomorrow for me

Quote ="Alex BP'"Here is a video of Ainscough playing in Australia for England academy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZH4SvAjd6M He plays absolutely outstanding through out. Oh, and a great run by Liam Farrell too...'" He looks like Robinson with the fast footwork and small stature. I’d be chuffed if he’s ends up half the player Robinson was. Is that him at the end as well who boots the ball away after the ref calls a forward pass? I'm not knocking the lad as i don't know him but I’ve heard rumours that he a little bit like Ashton with his attitude. Is this true?

Quote ="Alex BP'"Here is a video of Ainscough playing in Australia for England academy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZH4SvAjd6M He plays absolutely outstanding through out. Oh, and a great run by Liam Farrell too...'" He looks like Robinson with the fast footwork and small stature. I’d be chuffed if he’s ends up half the player Robinson was. Is that him at the end as well who boots the ball away after the ref calls a forward pass? I'm not knocking the lad as i don't know him but I’ve heard rumours that he a little bit like Ashton with his attitude. Is this true?

He needs to start running straight

..looks a real talent and also looks very strong

Yeah, that's him booting the ball.

Well, personally I've never heard of him having that type of attitude but he is fiery and clearly doesn't like losing/failing which is a good thing to a certain extent.

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Too true. It's a big improvement on half the current lot.

He can have any attitude he wants aslong as hes got the talent to back it up

Just been told he's definetly playing tonight

This is his chance. Take it, Shaun. Show 'em what you can do!