Darrell Goulding

Darrell Goulding
Goulding while playing for Wigan in 2007
Personal information
Full name Darrell Stephen Goulding
Born (1988-03-03) 3 March 1988
Wigan, England
Height 179 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 84 kg (13 st 3 lb) [1]
Playing information
Position centre / wing
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2005–14 Wigan 175 72 0 0 288
2009 → Salford (loan) 9 5 0 0 20
2015 Hull KR 8 1 0 0 4
Total 192 78 0 0 312
As of 11 April 2015
Source: RLP

Darrell Goulding (born 3 March 1988) is an English, retired professional rugby league footballer. He spent nine years of his career with Wigan Warriors, with whom he won the Super League Grand Final in 2010 and 2013, and also played for Hull KR and Salford City Reds in the Super League. He played as either a centre or on the wing.

Early life

Goulding is a former St. Edmund Arrowsmith pupil. he played for the junior amateur club Wigan St. Patrick's in Ince, Wigan. He was part of Wigan's scholarship scheme and played in Wigan's Academy U18s in 2004 and U21s in 2005.

Club career

Wigan

Goulding signed a two-year full-time contract with Wigan in July 2005, and was drafted into the first team squad for the first time in August 2005 and shortly after made his debut against Widnes.

He scored his first try for Wigan in the 48-22 loss to Leeds on 9 June 2006.

On 6 April 2009, Warrington centre Martin Gleeson transferred to Wigan in a deal rumoured to involve Goulding, since he had only been played twice in Wigan's first ten Super League matches. However, this rumour was rejected when Goulding was released on loan to Salford on 14 April.

Darrell made his Reds' debut in Perpignan, France in the defeat at the hands of Catalans Dragons. He made his home debut a week later at the Willows, scoring two tries - including a 70-metre interception score against Hull. He added a third for the Salford club in his next Super League game - the away victory at Huddersfield.[2]

After returning to Wigan in 2010, Goulding had a breakthrough year, filling in for the injured Amos Roberts for the majority of games.[3] He finished the year with 20 appearances and 25 tries, joint second highest scorer in 2010.[4]

His 2011 season started against St Helens at the season-opening Magic Weekend event.[5] After opening his try tally at Bradford in Round 2, he scored again at Salford in Round 4 and featured in the 2011 World Club Challenge team that lost to St George Illawarra Dragons.[6][7][8] Goulding made five further consecutive appearances, including a try in Round 8 against Leeds, but was dropped after their loss in Round 9 to Catalans Dragons, in which Goulding's error under the high ball had handed Frédéric Vaccari a try.[9][10] He reappeared for Wigan's Round 13 win against Crusaders RL.[11]

Hull KR

In July 2014, Hull KR announced that Goulding had signed a three-year contract with the club starting from the 2015 season.[12] Just 8 matches into his Hull KR career, however, Goulding was unfortunately was forced to retire from the sport due to a string of concussion injuries. His retirement was formally announced on Monday 1 June 2015.[13]

Representative career

Darrell was selected for Lancashire U17s, England U15 and U16s while part of the Wigan scholarship system. He was also included in the England U17s squad to take on the touring Australian Institute of Sport in 2005. In September 2010 he was called into the senior England squad for the first time for the 2010 Four Nations series in Australia and New Zealand, although he did not feature in the tournament

References

  1. ↑ "Wigan Warriiors Player Profile Darrell Goulding". web page. wiganwarriors.com. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
  2. ↑ "Goulding makes Salford loan move". news.bbc.co.uk. 14 April 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-17.
  3. ↑ Stott, Julie (6 October 2010). "England Four Nations Pen Pics". News of the World. Retrieved 6 October 2010.
  4. ↑ http://www.superleague.co.uk/statistics_player.php?hs1=2010&hp1=1806&hs2=2010&hp2=263&stat=tries&season=2010
  5. ↑ Scott, Ged (12 February 2011). "St Helens 16-16 Wigan". BBC. Retrieved 7 May 2011.
  6. ↑ "Bradford 10-44 Wigan". BBC. 20 February 2011. Retrieved 7 May 2011.
  7. ↑ Barraclough, Neil (5 March 2011). "Salford 16 Wigan 32: Gleeson heads for exit as Warriors stroll". Daily Mail. Retrieved 7 May 2011.
  8. ↑ Wilson, Andy (27 February 2011). "Wigan Warriors make brave attempt but Dragons are still worlds apart". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 May 2011.
  9. ↑ "Leeds Rhinos 22-22 Wigan Warriors". BBC. 1 April 2011. Retrieved 7 May 2011.
  10. ↑ "Wigan 28 Catalan Dragons 47: Dureau the hero as champions suffer home hammering". Daily Mail. 9 April 2011. Retrieved 7 May 2011.
  11. ↑ "Crusaders 16-48 Wigan Warriors". BBC. 1 May 2011. Retrieved 7 May 2011.
  12. ↑ "Darrell Goulding joins Hull KR from Wigan Warriors". BBC Sport. 1 July 2014. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
  13. ↑ Darrell Goulding: Hull KR centre forced to retire aged 27

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