Wane has been bigging him up all winter and Lockers tipped him as the one to watch on his blog so he must have impressed in training. Blew a couple of overlaps yesterday and a couple of poor decisions in defence too but he wasn't the worst player. He'll get 6-8 matches minimum to prove himself IMO.

We cant afford our centre to be blowing overlap chances when we have got one of our most explosive players outside him. Goulding shot out the line a couple of times and nearly got caught out too. I know its only one game and almost everybody was crap but he looked out of his depth.

TBH i dont think he is good enough i see no difference in him and dodgy hodgy

On which occasions did he blow overlaps? There never seemed to be any clear cut opportunities down the right side and very little space to work with. The same was happening but to a lesser extent on the left because the forwards weren't drawing any players in.

On several occasions Goulding was getting the ball out wide and Huddersfield had 4 men against him and Charnley. That shouldn't be happening for a professional team.

There was one obvious misread defensively, there was also a great tackle covering for a bad miss from Leuluai. He moved up for some of those long passes out wide but always to his own man which meant he still left Charnley one on one.



I expected a thread slagging off Goulding but our worst centre yesterday was Carmont. No player wasted the amount of opportunities he did.

I did have a tongue in cheek joke yesterday about how long he'd get before a thread on here & before he became scapegoat like Noble did so often...



Five him 5/10 games.

Get off the lads back. There were worse than him yesterday. George was pretty pap too...

What Irked me about Goulding yesterday was something he has very little control over. Why did we continually use him as a first choice crash option from our scrums? Its a role made for Gelling but yet we seem to be asking Daz to play that way?

I'm not Gouldings biggest fan and have often been critical of his decision making in the past.

However I don't think he was poor yesterday. George Carmont didn't get his timing right at all, Pat should have had three tries.

Do you mean Matty Russell?



Powell is a halfback.

The simple fact is that if Carmont or another classy CENTRE had been playing instead of Goulding, that ball at the end would have been flicked across and Charnley would have scored in the corner meaning a draw at least. Goulding was playing and didn't have the awareness or the skill to be part of scoring this try. I don't think Joel was a great centre but even he would have made that pass.

He's had almost 80 starts and about 100 games over 6 years in total, and never impressed at centre. His best season was 2010 - outside Gleeson on the wing. He's not a centre and never will be at the top level. He's a good, solid winger and that's where he should stay.



I've faith in Wane and I'm not that fussed about yesterday's game - I think we'll learn from it - but I can't understand his thinking with regards to Goulding (or Marsh for that matter). Neither offer anything at centre at this level. If Gelling isn't ready, give Charnley a shot (hasn't he played centre plenty of times for the Academys?). Charnley at least threatens to break tackles and has that 'x-factor' that has produced so many outstanding moments. Leave Goulding on the wing where he's proven his worth many times.

Too much of a gamble.



Goulding doesn't defend well enough to be played outside a rookie centre. It'd be carnage down that wing if they're switched over.

I know but he will get some time in the first team even if he isn't were he wants to be



I'd give either a shot tbh