OFFICIAL Lachlan Galvin #277 *Released* Career Discussion.

Tom Shines said:
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Spent force ? He was still playing Origin the first year he went … He was 32 ,,,

He is also one of the greatest players of all time ..Luai is good but couldnt carry Wally’s jock strap …
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I guess me and Wayne will just have to disagree with you.
He was cooked. Luai now is a much better player than Wally was at that stage of his career.
Wally was also very disliked by his own teammates at the Gold Coast.
 
bptiger 0 said:
I just can’t see having Jerome will improve this team , unless we get at leased 4 hard nosed forwards , if we get that we can get by with the backs we have , but we need grunt up front for the half’s to do there thing
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Haven’t you noticed the best teams in the league use big outside backs to make yardage now. It’s been happening for four years.
 
BAGNF05 said:
Haven’t you noticed the best teams in the league use big outside backs to make yardage now. It’s been happening for four years.way
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Oh and by the way we don’t have $8,000,000 in are cap at best we got $1,500,000 , and our need for forwards is way above backs , and by the way we got two panther backs coming how many more do u want
 
weststigers said:
The club has every right to seek to balance the cap and fill gaps in the squad.

Secondly, these players are not regular first graders on decent contracts. If they can get a start elsewhere, it benefits both parties.

If it's by mutual decision, it's fine. The Galvin situation is not mutual.
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Shopping any player around to off load them is not by mutual decision. Sullivan and Klemmer finding they would be shopped around contradicts what Richo has stated about contracts. Tartak isnt going to settle for anything less for what his player to contracted for, he has quite of number of kids in the top 30 so dealing with him is going to be very difficult for us.

I am all for our club to balance their salary cap to what it needs to be so its optimised but the correction that is needed here is a huge. Even after a few players like Sullivan,Klemmer, Papalilli and anyone else they can move is done, what is there in the market to bring in, its clearly not much better, especially when we need to pay over to attract a player to our club. Luai had to be lured with $300-400k more per season than what Penrith offered him, even the high spending Bulldogs pulled out late.

We also have very little depth with all the young kids that have been signed to top 30 deals for next year. Many of them couldn't dominate SG Ball this year. I feel for Richo and Benji there is a huge mess to clean up,
 
supercoach said:
Can’t see him extending his contract anytime soon, even if he will be forced to see out his current deal on average coin. Moses is like a dog with a bone, he will keep banging on the door for the release and the publicity it generates has a extremely negative affect on the club.

Also it would probably suit a team to get him in a few years down the track when he is a hardened NRL player.

If and when they reject our offer I would get Latu into no6 and use Galvin as a 14
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Poor Latu Fainu has hamstring issues it was one of the reasons why Manly didn't re-sign him. The kid is a freak but has had continual issue for the last 3 years. Hopefully he finds his way out of this recurring chronic issue.
 
ROZELLE.O.G said:
Shopping any player around to off load them is not by mutual decision. Sullivan and Klemmer finding they would be shopped around contradicts what Richo has stated about contracts. Tartak isnt going to settle for anything less for what his player to contracted for, he has quite of number of kids in the top 30 so dealing with him is going to be very difficult for us.

I am all for our club to balance their salary cap to what it needs to be so its optimised but the correction that is needed here is a huge. Even after a few players like Sullivan,Klemmer, Papalilli and anyone else they can move is done, what is there in the market to bring in, its clearly not much better, especially when we need to pay over to attract a player to our club. Luai had to be lured with $300-400k more per season than what Penrith offered him, even the high spending Bulldogs pulled out late.

We also have very little depth with all the young kids that have been signed to top 30 deals for next year. Many of them couldn't dominate SG Ball this year. I feel for Richo and Benji there is a huge mess to clean up,
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Mate this lot is coming last. What's your solution? Keep them all?
 
Todd Packer said:
I guess me and Wayne will just have to disagree with you.
He was cooked. Luai now is a much better player than Wally was at that stage of his career.
Wally was also very disliked by his own teammates at the Gold Coast.
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The QLD State of Origin selectors who picked him for the series in 1991 agreed with me … Mark Geyer didn’t think he was cooked when he backed down from him
 
ROZELLE.O.G said:
Poor Latu Fainu has hamstring issues it was one of the reasons why Manly didn't re-sign him. The kid is a freak but has had continual issue for the last 3 years. Hopefully he finds his way out of this recurring chronic issue.
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Quite a few people on here talked him up to the moon and back and I find it strange the NO ONE mentioned this when waxing lyrical about this kid last year.
 
Todd Packer said:
I guess me and Wayne will just have to disagree with you.
He was cooked. Luai now is a much better player than Wally was at that stage of his career.
Wally was also very disliked by his own teammates at the Gold Coast.
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Luai is a professional athlete, trained to within an inch of his life and provided with the best of everything.
You cannot compare him to a bloke who had none of these same conveniences.
 
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Tucker said:
Luai is a professional athlete, trained to within an inch of his life and provided with the best of everything.
You cannot compare him to a bloke who had none of these same conveniences.
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I'd be happy to clear out more of our low IQ low effort players in the squad & add 3-4 more high effort, workhorse trainers to the team to help set the standard (like Luai & Turuva). Players like Jack Williams (Sharks), Morgan Knowles (St Helens), Matty Lees (St Helens) etc.
 
Tom Shines said:
The QLD State of Origin selectors who picked him for the series in 1991 agreed with me … Mark Geyer didn’t think he was cooked when he backed down from him
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Origin isn't club football.
The truth is that Wally's reputation was entirely built on Origin, but we're comparing them as club players aren't we
At club level he never excelled. He only played 80 games over 5 seasons, 3 of those with an Origin standard team that under achieved. The Broncos only dominated once Kevvie ousted Wally.
Wayne sacked Wally because he was lazy trainer who was unpopular with his teammates and Kevvie was simply a better player at that stage.
To compare prime Luai to a broken-down prima donna is ridiculous. The Geyer reference is meaningless.
I can only assume you're too young to remember that time and you're repeating urban legend.
 
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