SwervinMervin
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We’re bringing talent from Panthers. Manly bringing talent from Tigers. I know what form line I’d rather have my hard earned on!
OFFICIAL Lachlan Galvin #277 *Released* Career Discussion.
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Go_You_Good_Things
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I look forward to seeing our attack without Luai being forced to have a "Galvin first" mentality.
I might be wrong . . . but we have had zero fluidity in attack in most of our games. Tellingly, Jarome has barely run the ball or run many plays. He has deferred to Galvin nearly 100% of the time. It's as though he has been told by Benji that we need to make this kid feel special. Spoilt, if you will.
Hindsight is great and all, but 2 and 2 still make 4.
Galvin with ball in hand sometimes works out, but often it's grubbered into the back fence or crabbed acrossfield, or a lack of pace and punch to get between defenders . . . with zero result.
I look forward with great intent to see what happens when the handbrake is released.
I might be wrong . . . but we have had zero fluidity in attack in most of our games. Tellingly, Jarome has barely run the ball or run many plays. He has deferred to Galvin nearly 100% of the time. It's as though he has been told by Benji that we need to make this kid feel special. Spoilt, if you will.
Hindsight is great and all, but 2 and 2 still make 4.
Galvin with ball in hand sometimes works out, but often it's grubbered into the back fence or crabbed acrossfield, or a lack of pace and punch to get between defenders . . . with zero result.
I look forward with great intent to see what happens when the handbrake is released.
Odessa
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Look at Canterbury last year and this year with Taylor there he has them going great
@Joel Helmes can we get a tigers petition going against Phil Gould please.
He has groomed lachie using his media platform whilst being GM of the dogs.
makes the anti-tampering a joke.
Also Phil Gould loves to think Tigers fans love him because he has this soft spot.
I think its time he feels what we all really think.
We should ask that he never commentates on a tigers game! like the one he will do against the sharks at leichardt.
Tigers fans need to voice this to the NRL.
He needs to be called out.
He has groomed lachie using his media platform whilst being GM of the dogs.
makes the anti-tampering a joke.
Also Phil Gould loves to think Tigers fans love him because he has this soft spot.
I think its time he feels what we all really think.
We should ask that he never commentates on a tigers game! like the one he will do against the sharks at leichardt.
Tigers fans need to voice this to the NRL.
He needs to be called out.
Tiger Stripes
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18 months in mental rehab should fix him up.
Odessa
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Someone in here mentioned Brooks has been offered up to St george so funny the dragons won't take Brooks
He would have been ringing up every sporting journo in the country begging them to let him have his say and when they refused he would ring them back 10 minutes later trying to change their minds.
Tom Shines
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It would be nice if they make the 8 and a journo rings him to get his thoughts about that …. No doubt how he is still a fan and how happy he is said through the most gritted of teeth
Who you blaming for the multiple release requests before anyone even knew who he was?
I love the cop outs here!!
We’ve had every opportunity to sign Gus over however long if he’s so influential and important - why didn’t we?
TigerVinnie
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Tucker
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Said it on a podcast
Yep this was the line they crossed. I have not always been convinced that Benji could make it as a coach with so little experience but have been willing to wait & see the results and the results so far are a huge improvement and the majority of the players love him. I went into the season hoping that Benji could prove my doubts wrong & I am more than happy to eat humble pie.
That the little upstart, his family & grub agent have been so blatant in trying to destroy Benji’s coaching aspirations is disgusting. From what I have heard the, “Benji isn’t a good enough coach” for the little princess, story has been doing the rounds to the media & anyone who would listen for some time.
Sorry princess, you don’t get to try to destroy a coach’s reputation and destabilise a team for your ego or for the dollars.
I hope they sit him in lower grades or bench him until we can actually gain something, don’t waste another minute developing him for someone else’s benefit.
mtd#2
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Do you have the full article you can post
Betterdays22
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Would honestly love him to go to Manly or Parra. Two clubs on the slide and he aint turning them around.
Roar_Power
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I wouldn’t be shaking hands with him or Moses without counting my fingers afterwards.
Go away
TurnStyle
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Haven't seen this posted, so thought I would. From fox sports.
How Bulldogs have courted Galvin for more than a year... in plain sight — Extra Time
Eamonn Tiernan from Fox Sports
The NRL forbids clubs from privately courting contracted players, but there are no rules around doing it publicly.
Canterbury’s pursuit of Wests Tigers wantaway Lachlan Galvin has been hiding in plain sight for more than a year now thanks to the hugely influential voice of Phil Gould.
Bulldogs general manager Gould, who never says anything publicly without an agenda, has praised Galvin at unprecedented levels since the teenager’s NRL debut last year.
Gould almost never showers NRL rookies with praise let alone makes bold predictions about their futures and where they sit in the game’s history.
But along came Galvin while Gould was in the midst of rebuilding the Dogs and the he abandoned that approach with this huge declaration on one of his media platforms.
“Lachlan Galvin will earn more money out of rugby league than any player in history,” Gould said on the Six Tackles With Gus podcast last August.
“I think he’s the best teenage footballer I’ve ever seen. I think what he is doing is absolutely extraordinary.”
That was just a few months after Galvin had asked the Tigers for a release following their ninth straight loss under rookie coach Benji Marshall.
Then, before a ball had been kicked this season, with Galvin’s manager Isaac Moses telling anyone who would listen that Galvin’s next contract call would be about coaching not cash, Gould dropped this gem.
“I’m obsessed with him. I love watching him play... I’m excited to see how he goes with Jarome Luai at the Wests Tigers,” Gould said.
“I think in the future, whoever has Lachlan Galvin in their side will be winning premierships.
“I’m not even worried about putting raps on the kid because he is probably the most exciting young playmaker I’ve seen coming through in a long time.”
Now Gould is one of the brightest minds in rugby league and those three sentences are a classic Gus sandwich, made by design.
Gould is talking directly to Galvin, but he hides it brilliantly under the guise of simply stating his opinion for the punters while on a podcast.
First, Gould announced how “obsessed” he is with watching Galvin but intentionally directs the chat back to the Tigers by adding how much he’s looking forward to seeing him play alongside Luai.
Second, Gould declares that whoever gets Galvin will win premierships, before finally putting the icing on the cake with “I’m not even worried” about putting external raps on him because he can handle the pressure.
Gould knows exactly what he’s doing here.
He knows how far his voice travels and that somewhere out there, Galvin will be scrolling on his phone and eventually see those comments.
What the 19-year-old, who just collected the wooden spoon in his first NRL season, sees on his phone is that one of the most respected figures in the game is saying he loves his ability and thinks he can win premierships.
Whether Galvin even realises it or not, he’s just been courted by a rival club in plain sight.
We checked with the NRL and there are no rules against this, basically because it’s almost impossible to police.
Gould will no doubt deny the Bulldogs interest in Galvin, just as he did when we revealed he’d signed Sitili Tupouniua only for the club to confirm a four-year deal a week later.
Meanwhile, Tigers legend Benny Elias was “flabbergasted” by Galvin’s call to decide his future at the club with 18 months left on his contract.
Elias said if everybody’s been playing by the rules then it just didn’t make sense, so he believes there must already be a better offer on the table.
“The kid has been offered $5 million at 19 and he turns his back on it. It’s just crazy,” Elias told foxsports.com.au.
“That’s the greatest offer the club has made since 1908, for Wests and Balmain, for a kid that age. It’s history in the making and it’s just remarkable.
“For him to say no now, it just flabbergasts me why they would say no right now. Why announce it? Why not keep it quiet and give the kid a chance to reconsider what he’s doing.
“I actually ran into his mother at Leichhardt Oval and she was saying how overwhelmed she was that he was a Tiger and that it had been a dream all her life and that the kid wanted to play for the Tigers. The club and Benji have a massive regard for him, so there has to be something to it because it’s definitely not about money.
“How do you say no two years out? What if they win the premiership this year? There are so many maybes, he must have done a deal somewhere else… you don’t knock back $5 million unless you’ve got to have something better. There are no two ways about it.
“I don’t know what that is but it’s got to be better (than what the Tigers offered).
“He’d have to have a better offer elsewhere. If I was a betting man, it would be the Bulldogs.”
Elias channelled his inner Geoff Toovey and declared “there needs to be an investigation” as to how his club lost their most exciting player in a decade.
“Whether he’s fallen out with the coach, I don’t know. But that’s the risk in signing coaches or players to such big deals because if they have a falling out, the players say ‘I’m out of here’,” he said.
“The club have to be honest with the people and tell them the truth with what’s happened.
“I’ve got the highest regard for Lachlan’s manager Isaac Moses. I know Isaac very well and I know he’s doing what’s best for the kid and I hate saying that because I don’t want to lose him.
“But there needs to be an investigation into why this kid has left, he’s a superstar in the making with a huge future ahead of him yet he turns his back on the club.
“It’s terrible and the worst timing to announce as the club has just got its act back together, we’re winning a few games, there’s good harmony. I know Benji is trying to create a brand new culture.
“It was so hard to get Jarome Luai to the club, to get a strike player like him was really hard work and we paid overs and you just can’t continue to do that because they’ll go broke and the place will just be a disaster.
“The club needs to find out exactly why a kid like Galvin who came up through the system and they invested enormous hours and money into in one sentence collapses the whole joint.
“Slowly but surely we’ve been building the house and the foundation and the culture and everything and we were slowly but surely starting to get the right results and then in one sentence the place falls to pieces.
“It’s gut-wrenching.”
How Bulldogs have courted Galvin for more than a year... in plain sight — Extra Time
Eamonn Tiernan from Fox Sports
The NRL forbids clubs from privately courting contracted players, but there are no rules around doing it publicly.
Canterbury’s pursuit of Wests Tigers wantaway Lachlan Galvin has been hiding in plain sight for more than a year now thanks to the hugely influential voice of Phil Gould.
Bulldogs general manager Gould, who never says anything publicly without an agenda, has praised Galvin at unprecedented levels since the teenager’s NRL debut last year.
Gould almost never showers NRL rookies with praise let alone makes bold predictions about their futures and where they sit in the game’s history.
But along came Galvin while Gould was in the midst of rebuilding the Dogs and the he abandoned that approach with this huge declaration on one of his media platforms.
“Lachlan Galvin will earn more money out of rugby league than any player in history,” Gould said on the Six Tackles With Gus podcast last August.
“I think he’s the best teenage footballer I’ve ever seen. I think what he is doing is absolutely extraordinary.”
That was just a few months after Galvin had asked the Tigers for a release following their ninth straight loss under rookie coach Benji Marshall.
Then, before a ball had been kicked this season, with Galvin’s manager Isaac Moses telling anyone who would listen that Galvin’s next contract call would be about coaching not cash, Gould dropped this gem.
“I’m obsessed with him. I love watching him play... I’m excited to see how he goes with Jarome Luai at the Wests Tigers,” Gould said.
“I think in the future, whoever has Lachlan Galvin in their side will be winning premierships.
“I’m not even worried about putting raps on the kid because he is probably the most exciting young playmaker I’ve seen coming through in a long time.”
Now Gould is one of the brightest minds in rugby league and those three sentences are a classic Gus sandwich, made by design.
Gould is talking directly to Galvin, but he hides it brilliantly under the guise of simply stating his opinion for the punters while on a podcast.
First, Gould announced how “obsessed” he is with watching Galvin but intentionally directs the chat back to the Tigers by adding how much he’s looking forward to seeing him play alongside Luai.
Second, Gould declares that whoever gets Galvin will win premierships, before finally putting the icing on the cake with “I’m not even worried” about putting external raps on him because he can handle the pressure.
Gould knows exactly what he’s doing here.
He knows how far his voice travels and that somewhere out there, Galvin will be scrolling on his phone and eventually see those comments.
What the 19-year-old, who just collected the wooden spoon in his first NRL season, sees on his phone is that one of the most respected figures in the game is saying he loves his ability and thinks he can win premierships.
Whether Galvin even realises it or not, he’s just been courted by a rival club in plain sight.
We checked with the NRL and there are no rules against this, basically because it’s almost impossible to police.
Gould will no doubt deny the Bulldogs interest in Galvin, just as he did when we revealed he’d signed Sitili Tupouniua only for the club to confirm a four-year deal a week later.
Meanwhile, Tigers legend Benny Elias was “flabbergasted” by Galvin’s call to decide his future at the club with 18 months left on his contract.
Elias said if everybody’s been playing by the rules then it just didn’t make sense, so he believes there must already be a better offer on the table.
“The kid has been offered $5 million at 19 and he turns his back on it. It’s just crazy,” Elias told foxsports.com.au.
“That’s the greatest offer the club has made since 1908, for Wests and Balmain, for a kid that age. It’s history in the making and it’s just remarkable.
“For him to say no now, it just flabbergasts me why they would say no right now. Why announce it? Why not keep it quiet and give the kid a chance to reconsider what he’s doing.
“I actually ran into his mother at Leichhardt Oval and she was saying how overwhelmed she was that he was a Tiger and that it had been a dream all her life and that the kid wanted to play for the Tigers. The club and Benji have a massive regard for him, so there has to be something to it because it’s definitely not about money.
“How do you say no two years out? What if they win the premiership this year? There are so many maybes, he must have done a deal somewhere else… you don’t knock back $5 million unless you’ve got to have something better. There are no two ways about it.
“I don’t know what that is but it’s got to be better (than what the Tigers offered).
“He’d have to have a better offer elsewhere. If I was a betting man, it would be the Bulldogs.”
Elias channelled his inner Geoff Toovey and declared “there needs to be an investigation” as to how his club lost their most exciting player in a decade.
“Whether he’s fallen out with the coach, I don’t know. But that’s the risk in signing coaches or players to such big deals because if they have a falling out, the players say ‘I’m out of here’,” he said.
“The club have to be honest with the people and tell them the truth with what’s happened.
“I’ve got the highest regard for Lachlan’s manager Isaac Moses. I know Isaac very well and I know he’s doing what’s best for the kid and I hate saying that because I don’t want to lose him.
“But there needs to be an investigation into why this kid has left, he’s a superstar in the making with a huge future ahead of him yet he turns his back on the club.
“It’s terrible and the worst timing to announce as the club has just got its act back together, we’re winning a few games, there’s good harmony. I know Benji is trying to create a brand new culture.
“It was so hard to get Jarome Luai to the club, to get a strike player like him was really hard work and we paid overs and you just can’t continue to do that because they’ll go broke and the place will just be a disaster.
“The club needs to find out exactly why a kid like Galvin who came up through the system and they invested enormous hours and money into in one sentence collapses the whole joint.
“Slowly but surely we’ve been building the house and the foundation and the culture and everything and we were slowly but surely starting to get the right results and then in one sentence the place falls to pieces.
“It’s gut-wrenching.”
Betterdays22
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I think Penrith actually make the most sense careerwise. They need a 6. He is a bit like for like for Luai and he can learn off one of the greats in an already strong team.
His, his dads or whoever is running the show's ego won't allow him to play 2nd string on a paycut though
BlackWhiteGold
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I wonder whether Sheens & Warren McDonnell are still in the family's ear, probably championing a push for him to Manly along with Moses. McDonnell, Lambkin & Steve Hales (all at Manly) all have a close relationship with Galvin from school & juniors. And would love to get something over the Tigers again!
Personally I hope it's either Manly or Penrith so we can work the situation to either get Brian To'o or DCE, Haumole, Koula, Bullemore, Simione Laiafai, Caleb Navale.
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