Quote: jonh "I have compared both on defence. Pryce's defence has been better than Goulding, in fact Goulding's defence has been a problem and needed work for most of his senior career especially his positioning.
Goulding has been dropped before for his defence and if he is dropped on Saturday it will be because of his inferior defence to Pryce.
The fact you seem to be missing is that players and coaches target weak sides, which is why more traffic has been going that way, rugby league teams have a plan they have tactics it is not all a coincidence when team single out players.
Both have scored tries when have played on the wing, the simple fact is though Pryce has shown more consistency and less weakness in his defensive play, (and by the way having defensive positional weakness does not always lead to tries).
Out of interest why do you think his side has not been tested as much.
1) Because players can only pass to the left.
2) Because it is all a fluke and luck.
3)Because the coach has identified a side to attack.
4) Because the play makers are getting more joy down one side of the field.
Now for me it is 90% of the time a combination of 3 and 4, but you seem to feel it is a combination of 1 and 2.'"
This is once again largely your opinion though which you seem to dress up as fact. I suppose though if you repeat something often enough people may believe it and it does tend to become fact on these boards. You constantly drop little jibes or negatives in about Goulding like it somehow makes Pryce a better player. Why dont you compare him to Richards or Roberts? If Pryce is so good why has he been stuck in the u20s most of the year? Surely your coach knows the players better than anyone and is best placed to judge and up to now he has been choosing Goulding. It is therefore safe to say that he rates Goulding higher. Didnt Ainscough even get recalled before Pryce got a game? It doesnt seem that your coach rates Pryce too highly and only picked him as a last resort.
If Goulding was as bad as you say and at fault as much as you make out wouldnt he have been dropped in the last few weeks? There certainly wasnt anything wrong with Goulding's defence or positioning at Salford and from what I have seen of Wigan this year there hasnt been any there too, if there had he wouldnt have played the games he has. Even some of your fellow fans are saying you are wrong blaming Goulding for the tries you have and one poster says he has been at fault for only one. I have seen Pryce be at fault for at least one in the game against Huddersfield so there is no difference there. You just totally ignore the facts and anything that may not suit your argument. As a result it really is difficult to take your comparison seriously when you are obviously so biased. Has Goulding not given you his autograph or something as you really seem to have something against him?
I have already posted a whole range of reasons why teams may attack one side more than another and why there may be more tries on one side of the field, you just seem to be obsessed with taking one point in isolation, whilst ignoring the others, as you think you can argue against it and get out of the stupid posts that you have made previously. Looking at Wigan they attack far more down the left than the right, Salford do too, as do Leeds amongst others. It happens for a variety of reasons, regardless of opposition, and there is not a one size that fits all answer. What you completely fail to realise is that it is a team game and not all tries that are scored on the opposite side of the field are automatically that wingers fault, even if it is outside him, no matter how much you want them to be to suit your argument. Indeed more often than not it is the fault of those inside him.
