I too think Karl Pryce will come good, he certainly has the ability. With regards to Goulding, I would have him back at Wigan. He must have been given the number 3 shirt for a reason.

and when you stop trolling you are going to have to finish your homework.

Don't forget it was Noble who gave him that shirt

Goulding and Pryce as Wigans long term centres; sounds good to me.

I've never said that at all - my opinion is if he's better than a Wiganer then he should play, I'm not bothered where he's from. I just don't think he's got what it takes to play for Wigan, and I think the money spent on him could and should be better spent elsewhere. That's just my opinion.

I like being proved wrong on player's so I hope he does pick up but from what I've seen from him so far he doesn't warrant a shirt, reserves or first team.

The way i see it Goulding has shown enough application to be a top player, but lacks the ability.

I have seen more from Pryce to think he may well be a very good player for our team, than i ever have with Goulding.


Goulding will in my opinion never be a player in a team that is consistently challenging for honours, Pryce just might be, and for that reason we go with Pryce and allow Goulding to make a career at another club rather than hold him back to play a bit part when there is no chance he has a future at a club with our ambitions.

Is Pryce as bad as mathers? ..no really
Ship him our way, we'll turn him into a decent player


We've even made Matt King look good this year

no you simply made him look bad last year, he is still far from where he should be in truth.

Pryce showed in the WCC he has what it takes.

Pryce is coming back from about two years out through injury so his level of fitness was always going to be a problem at first. Due to this he is being played in the reserves to give him game time to build up his fitness levels over this season with a view to him getting more first team chances next year. He has been playing well for the reserves and has as I have mentioned before been used at 6 in a few games and did well in that position too. On friday he did well and was a real problem for the Quins as although he didn't always bust through tackles (speed hitting the tacklers is limited by his fitness at the moment, no sense in going hell for leather but having to go off after half an hour, he had to pace himself to play the whole game) he always had 2 or 3 men needed to stop him and this creates gaps that the team can exploit. Next season when he can hit the line at full whack he will be one of our better attacking players.

In regard to Goulding one thing I always noted about him during games was that he hardly ever passes to his winger. This would often end an attack when a pass to the man outside would have got us many more metres and often a try. Whether this is through poor decision making or a selfish attitude is anyone's guess but I think his time at Salford may help him to improve this aspect of his game which for me was a major flaw. My reasoning for this is that he has played on the wing at Salford where he is on the other end of such situations. This should help him to realise how valuable a pass out to the winger from a centre can be as he will recieve the pass and score tries/ advance the attack. When he then does not get a pass he will be annoyed at his chance being wasted. This should make him look to give the pass in these situations when playing at centre rather than hold the ball and lose the opportunity. This should mean him coming back as a better player than when he left on loan.

I personally thought Pryce played ok on Friday, better definately than his previous outings for the 1st team.
He might not have been bursting through every tackle but you watch and he bounced the 1st man off almost every time and a few times has a hand free for an offload.
As for Goulding I think we should get him back for a while when his loan spell is up and see how the experience has paid off. You never know, he might look like a more complete player from it all.
Plus he will have more chances because we were spreading the ball both ways on Friday for once, a new dimension thats developed since Hock has been missing.