I will give it until Castleford away before he gets replaced by Gelling i reckon. I think its wishful thinking by the coaching staff that Goulding will be good enough at centre imo.

He has to be allowed to be given a fair crack IMO, certain things didn't work out yesterday but I thought both our centres made some mistakes with decision making and the timing, but maybe that's just down to rustiness. He probably knows himself this is his big chance as he has got Gelling wanting to prove himself as well. As ABP said you can't fault his enthusiasm but sometimes you need more than that.

Thing is he's had a shot there before he's a winger simple he doesn't know how too pass a ball

At last!!! Somebody that agree's with me!



Never a centre in the memory of man, 3 times he blew overlaps yesterday, his decision making is extremely poor and im yet to see him beat a man. If he has got a future it is on the wing, thats if Roberts doesnt re produce his form before his injury.

But what other options do we have? Gelling is nowhere ready yet. If we could get a top class centre then I'd agree but there's very few lacking. For the time being we have nobody else to put there.

What about Powell?



I know it's not his position but got to be better than Goulding it might come off like i'm giving him stick but i just dont think he should be were he is and he wont get on the wing with Paaaat and Charnley there

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.