Bobbie Goulding

For people with a similar name, see Bob Gould (disambiguation).

Bobbie Goulding

Personal information
Full name	Robert Goulding
Nickname	Bobbie Dazzler
Born	4 February 1972 (1972-02-04) Widnes, Lancashire, England
Playing information
Position	Scrum-half
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1988–90	Wigan	46				114
1991–92	Leeds	35				61
1992–94	Widnes
1994–98	St Helens	211				743
1998–04	Huddersfield Giants	28				148
1998–00	Wakefield Trinity	12				64
2001	Salford City Reds	32				124
2002	Leigh Centurions
	Rochdale Hornets
	Eastern Suburbs
	Total		0			1254
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
19??–97	Great Britain	17				17
	England
Coaching information
Club
Years	Team	Gms	W	D	L	W%
2004–05	Rochdale Hornets
2007–08	Rochdale Hornets
	Total	0	0	0	0
Representative
Years	Team	Gms	W	D	L	W%
2009	France

Bobbie Goulding (born 4 February 1972 in Widnes, Lancashire) is an English rugby league football coach and former player. He is currently the French national team's head coach.

A former Great Britain and England international representative scrum-half, Goulding played for a number of clubs including Wigan and St. Helens, both of whom he won Challenge Cup finals with.

Playing career

Goulding played for St. Helens in the Rugby League Premiership and the Super League. He also played for Wigan, Leeds, Widnes, Huddersfield Giants, Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, Salford City Reds, Leigh Centurions, Rochdale Hornets and Australian side Eastern Suburbs. As a player he most famously captained St Helens in their double year of 1996.

Goulding's usual position was as at scrum-half. In 1990 he became the youngest ever Great Britain Lions tourist at 18 years of age.

Goulding represented England at the 1995 Rugby League World Cup. He gained 17 caps for Great Britain.

He once kicked 11 goals in a Super League match for St Helens.

He set the record as the highest points scorer in one game for Great Britain - 32 points V Fiji in 1996.

In the 1997 post season, Hunte was selected to play for Great Britain at scrum half back in all three matches of the Super League Test series against Australia.

Coaching career

He joined Rochdale Hornets initially as player-coach, and his playing career ended in 2005 after a biceps injury. He left his post at Rochdale in November 2005, citing frustration at the club's financial problems. During his two seasons in charge at the National League One club he had not had a proper contract, despite impressing and twice being nominated for coach of the year.

He rejoined Rochdale as a coach in September 2007 before departing again in May 2008.

On 28 February 2009 Goulding was named the coach of the French National team.

Financial Crisis At Wakefield Trinity Wildcats

In 2000, at the height of a financial crisis at Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, the contracts of all players aged over 24 were terminated during September 2000. The players affected were; Andy Fisher, Bobbie Goulding, Warren Jowitt, Tony Kemp (player-coach), Steve McNamara, Francis Maloney, Martin Masella, Steve Prescott, Bright Sodje, Francis Stephenson, and Glen Tomlinson.

External links

• Bobby Goulding Wigan Career Page on the Wigan RL Fansite.
• Bobby Goulding St Helens Career Page on the Saints Heritage Society Website.
• Leeds profile
• International Statistics at englandrl.co.uk
• Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org
• 2001 Super League Team-by-team guide