Wane confirmed it in an interview on Wigan Today. I cant get the link as its blocked at work but its in the article calling Gelling a 'beast' and comparing him to Kevin Iro

Pleased with this. I said this season was make or break for him and he has certainly taken his chance.

www.wigantoday.net/sport/wigan-w ... o-1-668032

www.wigantoday.net/sport/wigan-w ... o-1-668032

I really like Gelling, I'm made up he's getting his chance. It does leave me wondering where this leaves Goulding though with Gelling and Sarginson seemingly nailing the centre spots.

Apparently Goulding has signed for Hull KR. This would leave Gelling and Thornley as our centres with Sarginson covering basically anywhere in the backs/halfback

Fingers crossed we can get Thornley back towards the back end of the season. He started the year on fire!

I'm not sure Goulding's future lies with Wigan to be honest. Gelling, Sarginson and Thornley are all between 3 and 5 years younger, had far less top flight experience and yet look as good or better than Goulding. I do like Goulding but he should really be noticeably better than the other three considering they are all rookies and he's had over 150 first team appearances

why would he do that?

why would anyone do that?

You would deduce that HKR offered him more money than Wigan.
After the WCC Wane said that Wigan weren't big enough and they had to look at their recruitment.
Gelling has been re-signed, Thornley is on a long contract then Joel re-signed.
All three are massive blokes. Sarginson maybe a reserve centre more than Joel and he is quite tall. The smallest of them all, Goulding, is apparently now leaving.

My guess would be money.

Wigan may also think that now his the right time for Goulding to move on at the right price.

Heard that he was going to Hull not Hull K R.

If true, then the same question (and answer) applies.

Very true

Some classic Gelling tonight

You mean injured? Least he stayed on unlike soft Walsh

Why would we risk him when we had it in the bag anyway?

Made the most metres of anyone on the pitch.

Always does but as a centre he was awful last night. He has got the basic skills to play the position although he's slightly more natural then Sarginson who was truly terrible.

As players I like the pair of them but no way are they centres. I was all for giving Gelling a run there and had wanted to see it since he first came but he's proved that whilst he's a real handful of a player he isn't cut out for the subtleties of the position. As for Sarginson he just can't make a right decision at centre. His natural instinct is to step right straight away which takes him away from his winger on that left side. He'd be better over in the right centre berth IMO.

Both are decent fill in options but I'd rather see Sarginson at fullback or wing and Gelling in the pack.

Doesnt mean he played well or that he is a good centre. People get fat too carried away by stats, which are often meaningless anyway without any context, without looking at the actual game. Play any 2nd row at centre and tell them to blindly take the ball up from every tap penalty and they would return much the same.

I would love to see how many of Gelling's metres are actually easy metres such as a nice easy 10 metres from a tap penalty, which no other centres do at Wigan and it is not something that is in the gameplan either. It is like the stupid way he runs down blind alleys from dummy half on the 4th tackle and wasting the set when a move is one the other way. Its all very well raving about the metres but at times it is detriment to what is going on on the field. Once again he was also missing tackles, throwing forward passes etc but he makes a lot of metres so thats okay.

have said for a long time he's not cut out for a SL starting spot.
positives - great effort. great physique. fantastic in the air.
negatives - no rugby brain, no obvious position to play him.

hes a decent squad player who is a good filler in, but isnt good enough to hold down a starting spot if others are available.

the fact that he looks OK is SL is more a testament to the lack of quality in the centres in general than anything else.

All 4 of our centres frustrate me one way or another. Gelling has got all the physical attributes and is a decent defender (though he does get beat one-on-one quite often) but he lacks the necessary skills to be a top centre. Sarginson is quick and elusive but isolates his winger too much in attack and is ropey in defence. Goulding is probably our most natural centre, despite lacking the physical attributes of our other options, but his form has gone backwards since 2012 and he seems to be missing Tomkins creating the space for him to put Charnley away. Thornley was looking very good up until his injury but he has a tendency to be inconsistent.

What we'd do for another George Carmont to come along eh!

Carmont on one side, the other 4 melded together Frankenstein's monster style on the other.

Correct, if we dont sign a centre for next season we are in trouble.

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..