...or does he not trust Ainscough?

I never fully understood the logic behind that. It's not as though he was ever likely to be in a game situation where a trampoline was readily available for him to leap above his opponents.

then you could play Phelps on the wing...this isnt about Ainscough.

It's about Phelps, Famous Amos, Richards and Ainscough.



4 into 3 doesn't go!



Nobby has gone safety first picking Phelps IMO

Exactly.



Dave

Honestly





What does Phelps have to do with Shaun bloody Ainscough.



Phelps is our fullback, the best fullback at the club.



Ainscough is a winger, he is battling with Roberts/Richards for selection.



Everyone having a pop would be deadly quiet if Phelps was a Wiganer and Ainscough an import.







Bang On

Frightening

You were due to make a good point sometime fella

Its about improving your muscles in jumping. Jumping on a trampoline as harder then on grass and will improve your muscles. It's like running on the beach is harder then on grass. So by spending hours jumping on a trampoline and getting stronger that way will make it easier when you need to challenge for a high ball.



I think a lot of Basketball players do it, also some tie weights to their ankles to strength their jump.

I also agree with this. For me there are two other overseas players going before him at the end of the season and these are Tim Smith and Phil Bailey. I have nothing against Bailey really but we simply do not need him with the amount of second rowers we have at the club now.

Looking at players in isolation as you and Neil are doing rather than looking at the make up of the entire team before deciding whether an out of contract player gets a new deal is a great way to end up with a poor team.



As previously pointed out it isn't just to do with Ainscough but the make up of the back line.



Roberts and Richards are going nowhere and presumably club wants Ainscough to stay as well. The club must also have an eye on the quota and making money available for the signings it supposedly wants to make.



Put all that together and that should mean Phelps doesn't get a new deal.



If he was a great player it would be different but he isn't and being the best full back at Wigan ought not an automatic reason to get a new deal unless being the best full back we have also equals being a very good full back.







How do you conclude that? Plenty of Wigan born players incur the wrath of the message board from time to time.



With regard to Phelps he isn't particularly good anyway and keeping him on reduces the recruitments options of the club when we have players contracted who could do the job.



I can't understand why anyone would bat an eye if he was let go. Retaining him because he is enthusiastic is not a good reason to keep him on and he needs to be worth it as a player and IMO he isn't.



Dave

Skiiers do it as well, and they tend to out-jump and sometimes outsprint those from other sports. Trampolining would be a great idea.