You are of course technically correct but on this occasion he deserves letting off and I think whoever it was who told him off after scoring his début try wants his head testing. A quiet word after the game would have sufficed.

Dave

True next time he may look for the supporting player who is not there, he may throw the pass and see his supporting player drop it, or he may back himself like any true try scorer does and cross the line for 4 point.

Check out old video's of Offiah, regularly ran to the corners to score.
Back then though we had a Botica, so it was 6 points anyway.

People will moan about anything



"The players done have passion for the shirt" is something I have read many times on here. Ainscough shows some and you all start moaning.

GET A GRIP.. at least next week when he is dropped for Mathers you all wont have to moan about someone celebrating a try scored after beating a man one on one on the outside (wing play weve not seen at Wigan in quite a while).

Well Played Shaun, wore his heart on his sleeve tonight and deserved the MOM award.

Did anyone see him shouting at the team under the south stand sticks after conceding another try?

Shaun Ainscough was the one silver lining last night - he offered the little bit of optimism that we have quality home grown players on the fringes of the team who want to play for the club - if given the chance.

If he isn't in the team next week then I will once again despair of the selection policies of Noble.

If he isn't in the team next week we should barricade the training ground and stop Noble ever getting near the place.

So, can you describe this try for me please?

So much to say, and so little evidence.

If he celebrates early scoring a 50 metre try everyweek its fine by me



Shaun really impressed me last night and made himself undroppable for next week but this is Noble

and we have Pat, Bailey and the banned one returning

In a sense it was good to see Ainscough celebrating in advance of scoring. It showed just how much it meant to him. A Wigan lad scoring his first try at the JJB in the first team. Its what dreams are made of. At least he had something worth celebrating! Well done lad. Here's to many more celebrations. But next time try and score neaer the posts when Pat's not playing! Only joking.

He was so close to going in touch, the decision not to pass to the man inside him could easily have backfired. Fortunately for him it didn't.

Brilliant debut IMO. At least, we have a winger who looks like a winger, runs like a winger and scores classic winger's tries.

We'll keep him.

Does anybody know why he was limping throughout the second half?

Ill fitting footwear - he had to change his boots and will have a nice set of blisters this morning.

It wasn't the celebration that was wrong, it was the fact that he should have gone close to or under the posts, which would have put Wigan level.
Instead he gave Roberts a difficult kick and we were still two points behind.

Another point from last night was Ainscoughs disallowed try in the first half was never forward. I saw the replay three times after the game.

Agree on both counts.

As long as he learns, he can be forgiven for not going under the sticks / passing inside, but if he does it again then we need to worry.

It wasn't a forward pass, but Ganson was whistle happy in them first ten minutes.

What did Hudson go on report for?

Proper Winger if you ask me, head down and go.

Handling the ref after their disallowed try.

Right, there was just a load of bodies around and couldn't see from the East. Should be a lengthy ban similar to Hock's then.

Once again Jack you miss the point totally.

At least I saw the point, unlike you.

Pretty pathetic really, thousands of posts about games you never see.

What an awesome debut, I had tears in my eyes at one point. I have been readily awaiting this for absolutely ages. After watching 18s and reserves regularly and then his call up for england academy, I just knew we had something special and was so excited yesterday when I realised he was in the starting team.

Yeah he may not have had the best positioning of where he put the ball down, but that try was one of the most exciting I had seen at the JJB in a long time.

Just hope that Sam's regular callup to the first team isn't too far away. The one thing you can't take away from the lads is their passion to play for wigan.

I am praying that the visas for our current new crop of aussie players are withdrawn, can't believe that people said that smith had an awesome game last week and in the space of a week its reduced to the crap we had to watch last night. Even roberts didn't impress me.

Pryce did though, he is really gonna be a handfull when he is fully fit, he reminded me of Graeme West with his running style, his hand offs were brilliant and that tackle he made on the wing made me so glad it wasn't me running down it.

The one where he flew in, then the next thing... BOOOOOOM!!!!

Pryce knocked him almost into the stand



As for Ainscough, superb young talent. Similar to Carney and Dallas (when we challenged to win things!). Hope he gets a good run in the team, but I'd put my money on Noble dropping him and bringing in Phelps when he's fir again.

You can see the Wigan lads play with their hearts on their sleeves when they get picked. The desire to win is there.

Something interesting also that I heard on SL extra last night:

Stevo: It is widely known that Wigan haven't replaced Barrett
Eddie: They haven't replaced Andy Farrell either..

One word to describe Ainscough last night [size=150AWESOME[/size
I am glad to see a winger who has the confidence to back himself on the outside, and have the ability score. This is what we have been lacking. Keep it up Shaun. Don't ever lose that confidence. He is going to be a great.

IL don't let the RU or anyone else poach him.
Now we just need Sam to get a shot next week.

I wonder if he wud have bin given a chance if pat n phelps had played i think not under this coach it was his debut and scoring made it a great nite for the kid good luck to him lets hope he gets more run outs.