Re: The Shenton enigma. : Mon May 21, 2012 5:01 pm
Saddened! wrote:
It wouldn't surprise me to see Shenton turn back into an international centre at his next club, whoever that might be. You might mock him, but Wigan could do worse, he's a lot better than Gelling and Goulding who seem to be the rather average future of Wigan at centre.
Oh dear
Shenton was ok at Castleford and did well as a big fish in a small pond. We have seen this many times with players and have had more than our fair share at Wigan with the likes of Danny Orr and Denis Moran springing to mind. However even at Castleford I never saw anything that special in him and he always seemed a fairly bog standard centre.
Goulding has been outstanding this season and is the form centre in Super League. He has been our number 1 centre this year, playing far better than Carmont, and has great hands, great defence and scores tries. There is simply no comparison with Shenton.
Gelling has never even played a game of centre at Wigan and I dont know if he ever will as I honestly could not say where his best position would be. Thornley has much more of a chance of taking over Carmonts role than Gelling imo.