No offence to Shaun Wane....but why release Goulding, but persevere with the eternal 'potential' of Anthony Gelling !

Probably because Gelling has broken a tackle in his career..

What about the eternal potnential of Darrell Goulding? I'm still waiting for him to put three seasons together without playing so poorly he gets dropped for the rest of the year (it's never yet happened, though he did once manage two)

Goulding did fulfill his potential IMO and proved his worth but that's probably the issue. Even at his very best he's still only decent rather then outstanding. It's a worry that I'd still class him as our best centre tbh because he probably shouldn't be. There are too many rough edges in the other 3 supposed centres games at the moment but on the up side they have plenty of improvement in them.

One lad who could really benefit from all this is Oliver Gildart. He's very young but there's an opening there and he's a classy player. I'd be looking to try and get him a game this year.

Gouldings leaving so sooner or later you won't be able to defend Gelling or any of the other centres by having a yet another unwarranted pop at Goulding.

The way Goulding plays as centre to Charnley works. It works very well too.
On his own merits DG doesn't appear that great but he is responsible for a large number of tries Charnley has scored these past seasons.
The situation does remind me of a Saints player, Ken Large, who was centre to Van Vollenhoven. TVV was one of the all time greats but Large was rated as ok but not superb. The thing was that they both played very well alongside each other and Large made many a try scoring opening for TVV.
It was a great partnership with one being the senior partner the other the junior.
I see it very much in the same way with Goulding and Charnley.
We could pay a heavy price for breaking up that partnership.

having Sam chiming into the line and HH dummy runs also helped Goulding ship the ball on to Charney and gave us great attacking down that side

He has been very good in 3 of the last 4 seasons ffs, 2010, 2012 and 2013. In 2011 he was certainly no worse than average and was injured for half of it anyway.

Lets look at the other seasons then. In his 1st season he played 1 game as a 17 year old, I dont know what you really expected of him that season, indeed a year later he was playing in an u18s Grand Final. Then there are 3 seasons when he was 18, 19 and 20 in a relegation threatened team with the likes of Tim Smith, David Vaeleki, Cameron Phelps and Karl Pryce. In this era he was playing under Millward and Noble when he was often made a scapegoat by the latter. He actually did very well in many games considering his age against some very good centres like Senior and Hape. Again I dont know what you expect from him as a teenager, Hampshire, Powell, Williams et al have all been flops so far if you are trying to make out Goulding was poor in his first 4 seasons

Awesome try!!!!!!!!

Quality hat trick from Gells, he just keeps looking better and better the more game time he gets

Three tries Goulding would never be capable of scoring..Great move by the club to upgrade and have Gelling as first choice centre.

Time has move on and if Gelling continues the way he played tonight I can't see Goulding being selected in front of him.