And 7 years younger than Amos Roberts who he's outperformed in pretty much every single game they've both played in since the middle of last year.

Roberts is quite clearly not 100% match fit yet, otherwise hed walk into the team over Goulding, Roberts would have won man of steel last season if he hadn't got injured, dont even try and compare them.

Goulding and Marsh were like the Chuckle Brothers yesterday (to you, to me, to you, to me!) Why did we keep hoisting bombs for those two to score when we had George Carmont (who was immense against St George) on the other side of the pitch and Charnley who tried his heart out yesterday?

That was the wrong tactic, but not Goulding's fault. He did very little wrong yesterday, and did a lot right. The Westerman try was Tommy's fault, and the Briscoe try was an exceptional bit of athleticism from a very good winger. Ran the ball out hard, and (as I think it was) DaveO pointed out, won 2 penalties for us by catching them offside.

At the WCC, don't forget, we were solid on that side as soon as Joel replaced the unfit Gleeson.

Sure, he's no superstar, but in these salary cap days, we can't have superstars in every position.

Physically, he will never be the best, and that will always limit him - he isn't the fastest, nor big for an outside back - so as a winger he won't run them in from our own half on an overlap, and as we should have discovered far quicker yesterday, he isn't going to dominate the skies like a Richards or Folau. Haven't seen his passing game for a while as he has been out on the wing.

However with ball in hand, or in defense when he isn't left against 3 men, in terms of technique he is possibly the best threequarter we have, his scooting is superb, his decision making is very good imo, he generally runs the right lines for his size imo. If we're displacing players like him, it is just another indication of how far we have come, and how much strength in depth we have.

That depends on whether Deacon is fit for Friday after his bump on the head yesterday. If he isn't I'd guess we'd move Sam to 6 and play Amos at FB, providing Amos is fit again obviously

try spelling his name right first pal, and what did he do soo wrong yesterday as opposed to charnley, oh yeah except get 2 tries on a plate for him

But still not 'mid' 20s.

Yes Roberts may well have won the man of steel but you seem to ignore the fact that if he had this would have been due to his form from full back, not wing. Gouldings form on the wing pushed Roberts to full back and kept him out of the team after his injury.

On the Briscoe try Goulding was obviously blinded by the sun and couldnt see the ball. This happens and all wingers, even Pat, let in tries occasionally from kicks to the corner. Goulding generally is very good under kicks, better than most wingers, and has rarely conceeded any tries like this. Indeed I cant even recall the last one. It is funny though how when Sam missed bomb after bomb against Salford it was blamed on the floodlights, Goulding misses one because of the sun and he has a problem according to some.

Just a thought...

Maybe we should swap him and Marsh round with Goulding in the centres and Marsh on the wing. Marsh runs with the ball more like a winger, and Goulding keeps coming inside to defend.

Could work. Goulding's got more experience too which would help playing a bit further inside.

for one uve spelt his name wrong so if u were watchin the wigan side so much that you can criticise him then you should know how to spell it and two u cant blame one player for the defensive issues and he was struggling with an injury picked up in the warm up

Plus he's not exactly a stranger to the centre position. He wasn't too bad when he's played there in the past, I reckon it'd be worth another shot.

Being fair mate, the pass was a shocker and we got pulled back for crossing anyway

You're seriously picking someone up on their spelling? Is this an ironic post?