He did.



Friday was his first SL start rather than SL debut.



To describe Golding, or his performance on Friday, as cack is utter ted lunacy.

Exacally. I didn't think he was too bad on Friday and will only get better. Certainly didn't let himself down. The mind boggles how some can write off a 18yr old kid on 1 first team performance, which wasn't even a bad one!!

If, and granted its a big IF, Hardaker is back available and Moon is out, could we see....



1, Golding

2, Briscoe

3, Watkins

4, Hardaker

5, Hall

In those circumstances Hardaker would be fullback, Briscoe centre and Holding wing, I think.



Isn't the concussion rule 6 days though? Moon would be available if all else well with him.

Goulding not Holding. Wrong club/era/position/sport.

GOLDING. Got there in the end.

I'm not sure he'd go for Briscoe at left centre though because of the Burrow defensive issue. LC has to be 4th man in when Burrow is on (with McGuire that side also) so he might not fancy Briscoe there for that reason. Ablett is an obvious choice to go there but could depend on fitness of others in the 2nd row. If Achurch is still missing and with Delaney still feeling his way back to fitness, you would want Ablett in the back row.

There's no mandatory time out. Players have to take COG tests that measure reactions etc and get within a certain percentage of the baseline figure they set at the start of the season.

He was miles out of position for both tries, made almost no ground with kick returns and offered nothing in attack - for all he did we might as well have played with 12 men.



For all saying he 'did well' he did bugger all and is getting off lightly because he's an academy player the likes of nantwich are desperate to do well.

he did well under the high ball for one.

he didnt make metres in the tackled, but he's a schoolkid and im not suprised he wasnt strong enough to do

given that he probably wasnt expected to play as soon as he has, im guessing he wont know the set plays we have or be able to play the same role in our system that Zak does. we also wont have plays specifically designed for his skill set

also, given how our attack in general wasnt very good on friday im really not sure what you expected him to do?



for a kid who isnt full time i thought he did well being thrown in the deep end at short notice, as seemingly did Peacock who gave him a lot of praise in his interview with the YEP

I like it when I'm proved right.