piemandan wrote:The only reason I can come up with for constantly playing Fielden is the fact he cost us an arm and a leg. Other than that, I'm stumped. Noble can't think he's a good player, surely?
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Thought it was a good decision to rest Ainscough today. He's had a good run in the team and it will keep him hungry for first team rugby - not that I doubt he is lacking enthusiasm, quite the opposite in fact!
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Orrell Lad wrote:Thought it was a good decision to rest Ainscough today. He's had a good run in the team and it will keep him hungry for first team rugby - not that I doubt he is lacking enthusiasm, quite the opposite in fact!
I don't think that will ever be a problem for him.
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Orrell Lad wrote:Thought it was a good decision to rest Ainscough today. He's had a good run in the team and it will keep him hungry for first team rugby - not that I doubt he is lacking enthusiasm, quite the opposite in fact!
Exactly.
People need not over-react to the decision, its one that makes perfect sense.
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Asked about Shaun Ainscough's absence, Brian told us,
"He is fine, that element of duty of care we have for players is important, whilst he is scoring all those tries it is exciting but there are parts of his game he needs to work on, as there are with other players. I wanted to see Roberts, Richards and Phelps which offered a lot of threat for us but he will be back
As I posted on another thread BEFORE the game. Ainscough has done well, but has made major errors that need to be removed from his game. Today was an ideal game to give both him and Sam a bit of a rest.
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I personally can't see anything wrong with it tbf.
Everyone including Noble knows who our best/liveliest winger has been this season and I’m sure resting him this week won’t change anything.
Phelps had a strong game against Saints, Richards is out of sorts this season due to injury & swapping between FB and wing so Celtic was the perfect game for them to get some game time and confidence.
Maybe Roberts has been lucky but again I think out of the two of him and Ainscough he’s the one who needs to get a confidence boost and score a few tries.
I’d rather Noble have a look at other options in a game like this than having them forced on him in games like Saints or Leeds.
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Bill_Barlow wrote:Both are being introduced to first team rugby and will need to be rested in games we can afford too. Rest vs Celtic at home or against a bigger side which will be a closer game?
The latter I would have thought unless of course Noble thinks he needs to play these two against the stronger teams. Tomkins played most of the game anyway but it seemed an odd choice to me as playing Ainscough would have given Richards another weeks recovery time.
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shooter69 wrote:Asked about Shaun Ainscough's absence, Brian told us,
"He is fine, that element of duty of care we have for players is important......
Not that tripe again. It was only a couple of weeks ago it was "it doesn't matter how old you it's how you play that counts" (or words to that effect) while talking about Ainscough. He needs to make his mind up.
If he had just said he wanted to try out a different combination, fair enough but this duty of care thing is a load of baloney IMO.
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