Quote ="Odem"Goulding was the same. Look how he has turned out, these things take time. Some players take a little longer to develop. The pace of marsh used in the right way would be a devastating weapon.
Goulding made his Wigan debut in 2005 and we only started to see any return on the time we invested in him in 2010 and after a quiet spell he has been one of the top centres in the league this year and looks like nailing the number 3 shirt for years to come at just 23/24 years of age.'"
Comparing Marsh to Goulding is like comparing chalk and cheese. Goulding was always highly rated, represented England at every age level and was the number 1 centre at his age group. Marsh has never been this sort, or calibre, of player. Also Goulding may have made his debut in 2005 but people forget that he had only just turned 17 and that he broke a bone in his foot in this debut and missed the rest of the season. He was then treated abysmally by Noble in the following years, along with some other young players, and never got any sort of run of games before being made a scapegoat, usually unfairly.
Goulding has never been greedy either and the way he is playing now is much the way that he played in the academy. People seem to have levelled this accusation in the past because his winger didnt get the ball much, whilst completely ignoring the fact that he very rarely got the ball himself due to the ball stopping once it got to Phil Bailey and because of our style of play at that time. Marsh on the other hand as always been a greedy so and so and doesnt know how to pass. Even in the try he scored at the weekend, which was very poor defence by McGoldrick as much as anything, there was a point where he had created the overlap and should have passed to his winger but didnt.
I couldnt see Marsh being here next year and definately cant now with the signing of Thornley.
