Steve Goulding (footballer)

Steve Goulding
Personal information
Full name	Stephen Goulding
Date of birth	(1960-08-18) 18 August 1960
Original team(s)	North Launceston
Height/Weight	185 cm / 81 kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1981 1982–87	North Melbourne Claremont	2 (2) 122
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1988 season.

Steve Goulding (born 18 August 1960) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Goulding was recruited to the VFL from NTFA club North Launceston after being a member of their 1979 premiership team. He played two senior games mid season, a 114-point loss to Geelong at Kardinia Park and he kicked two goals the following week against Richmond, for whom Francis Bourke was making his 300th league appearance.

An on-baller and centreman, Goulding joined Claremont in 1982 and spent six seasons there, during which time he was a Western Australian interstate player. He also represented Tasmania at the 1988 Adelaide Bicentennial Carnival and in 1988 he finished his career back at North Launceston, turning the Robins into a powerful combination where he was captain-coach until 1990, where he won the 'ABC Footballer Of The Year' award despite missing a large number of games mid-season due to a knee injury.

After a stellar finals series, Goulding badly injured his other knee in the opening minutes of the 1990 TFL Grand Final against Hobart and subsequently retired as a player but remained non-playing coach of the Robins until the end of the 1992 season where his highly fancied North Launceston team were beaten by Hobart in the Preliminary Final.

He won the 1989 and 1990 North Launceston 'Best and Fairest' awards.

Goulding also coached Deloraine in the Northern Tasmanian Football League.

He was a 2008 inductee into the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame.

References

Steve Goulding's statistics from AFL Tables
Steve Goulding's profile from AustralianFootball.com
Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.

Western Australian team – 1983 Interstate Championships

Western Australia 24.14 (134) defeated South Australia 16.14 (110), at Subiaco Oval, 4 June 1983 Western Australia 16.22 (118) defeated Victoria 16.19 (115), at Subiaco Oval, 12 July 1983

Both games	Blackwell Cronan Harding Langsford Michael (c) Ralph Rance Solin

State game vs. South Australia	Aitken Edwards Ellis Fong Goulding Holden Ironmonger Magro Mitchell Narkle Panizza Roe Thorne

State of Origin vs. Victoria	Barrett Boucher Bosustow Buckenara Buhagiar Glendinning Malarkey Purser Richardson Rioli Sidebottom Taylor

Coach: Todd

Western Australian team – 1987 Interstate Championships

South Australia 18.16 (124) defeated Western Australia 9.9 (63), at WACA, 16 June 1987 Victoria 16.20 (116) defeated Western Australia 13.14 (92), at Subiaco Oval, 22 July 1987

Both games	Breman

State game vs. South Australia	Bewick Browning Campbell Cocker Goulding Hetherington Hutton Kickett Lee McKenna Menaglio Morton Peake (c) Rowland Thorne Turley Wake Waterson Watson Wilkinson

State of Origin vs. Victoria	Bairstow Brennan Dennis Dorotich Duckworth Hardie Harding Hart Henwood Holden Ishchenko Keene Krakouer Lester-Smith Mainwaring Malaxos Mitchell Narkle Rance Rioli (c) Wilson

Coach: Todd

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