Maybe Galvin knows something?
OFFICIAL Lachlan Galvin #277 *Released* Career Discussion.
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liltiger
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Up until yesterday everyone was happy with the trajectory we've been on, we won a few games in years past we wouldn't, we've been more gritty. We still have issues like attack in the red zone, depth and defensive lapses, though by and large we were all pretty much happier with the way we were going. Yesterday was an anomaly, it was a career worst game for pretty much the entire squad. This week against Souths will speak volumes about how the teams travelling. In terms of Galvin the only thing he knows is whatever daddy tells him.
Tucker
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He’s witnessed it.
jirskyr
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I said the same thing to my Dad, NRL at the moment is a knife's edge, you lose too much control and the opposition will carve you up.
For example Staines sets up either of those early try chances and we probably don't get flogged.
Broncos go 14 ahead of the Rabbits then wobble and get reeled in. Knights did the same against Titans.
Tigers' completions weren't even that bad, it was the kicking game and an inability to complete a tackle or slide in defence, that actually until now 2025 was much improved.
I don't understand how that team that ground out wins over Sharks and Dragons can be taken down 64-0. Not just the score, but our 3rd-worst result ever by what was an otherwise respectable team.
jirskyr
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My thoughts are Galvin does ok in the overall run when given lots of opportunities - lots of handles, lots of runs, lots of kicks. He tends to compete at every play and gradually hone himself in.
Yesterday we had some 35% possession and most of that coming out of trouble. So all Galvin's plays were rubbish and they threw everything at the Galvin-Staines edge.
The Chad
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I don't tend to question too many of Benji's choices.
But having an edge of Turuva, Staines & Galvin on a team that is priding itself on it's new found defensive ability seems a massive oversight.
I think if you highlighted the three worst individual tacklers in the squad- all 3 would be in the running.
He makes mistakes & is a shadow of his younger self, but Bird had to play centre.
Galvin has been exposed 2 weeks in a row for his terrible tackling technique. We have been able to hide it most of the season, but as soon as he is targeted, he looks awful.
The days of carrying 'awful' defenders in the starting squad are gone. Coaches are too smart now. Run Luciano & NAS at Galvin & see what happens. Watching him get thrown away by Gutho said a lot. And whatever he was doing with Coates on Sunday...
But having an edge of Turuva, Staines & Galvin on a team that is priding itself on it's new found defensive ability seems a massive oversight.
I think if you highlighted the three worst individual tacklers in the squad- all 3 would be in the running.
He makes mistakes & is a shadow of his younger self, but Bird had to play centre.
Galvin has been exposed 2 weeks in a row for his terrible tackling technique. We have been able to hide it most of the season, but as soon as he is targeted, he looks awful.
The days of carrying 'awful' defenders in the starting squad are gone. Coaches are too smart now. Run Luciano & NAS at Galvin & see what happens. Watching him get thrown away by Gutho said a lot. And whatever he was doing with Coates on Sunday...
Bigger faster stronger and smarter.
No other explanation is necessary.
pawsandclaws1
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He made fundamental errors in the opening exchanges while in possession which immediately provided the Storm with the momentum needed to destroy WTs. There were two appalling end on end kicks within the Storm 10m which bounced up nicely for the defender to gather and counterattack. He gave away a penalty when we had the Storm pinned within their own quarter and his teammates must have been blown away with his interpretation of swan lake when he danced around an attacker 5 times without putting him to ground.
If Marshall retains him in the side, I will be disappointed. I envisage more of those kicks sitting up nicely for Mitchell to say thank you very much as he is on his way to our try line.
If Marshall retains him in the side, I will be disappointed. I envisage more of those kicks sitting up nicely for Mitchell to say thank you very much as he is on his way to our try line.
Agree…
I probably came off as a hater - I’m not!
Don’t agree with the narrative that he’s tanking - I don’t think he is.
All the bad things in his game, have always been there…
You’re right, through sheer involvement - he usually plays in the positive (does more good than bad)
Bit hard up against that side though…
I stand by we’ve not had any real red hot opposition this year until the storm. There’s more of that coming - maybe not that hot, but it’s coming.
I love that sort of talk!!!
jirskyr
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More than six-agains: Why a 20-point lead is no longer safe in the NRL
The record-breaking weekend produced the most double-figure revivals since statistics have been kept, but the impact of the game’s biggest rule change is never far from mind.
Rugby league, you beautiful, twisting, turning, loop-the-looping, mad thing.
Even by the greatest game of all’s standards, last weekend was a new kind of wild.
Twenty-point comebacks from the Bulldogs and Titans marked the first time two teams have reeled in such big leads in one weekend since those statistics have been kept.
According to the NRL, the three successful 13-plus fightbacks at half-time by Canterbury, Souths and the Gold Coast marked just the third time more than one team has achieved that since 2003.
That’s just the half of it. St George Illawarra and Manly each pegged back 14-point deficits before going down, while the Cowboys twice surged from 12 points behind in their 30-all draw against Penrith.
In all, from six games, 114 “comeback points” were scored, while 29 were added by the leading sides.
With eight field goal attempts (two of them successful), Latrell Mitchell and Stephen Crichton masterclasses, trainers spraying footballs with water and Jaeman Salmon spraying Ricky Stuart, the games had it all.
Even by the greatest game of all’s standards, last weekend was a new kind of wild.
According to the NRL, the three successful 13-plus fightbacks at half-time by Canterbury, Souths and the Gold Coast marked just the third time more than one team has achieved that since 2003.
That’s just the half of it. St George Illawarra and Manly each pegged back 14-point deficits before going down, while the Cowboys twice surged from 12 points behind in their 30-all draw against Penrith.
In all, from six games, 114 “comeback points” were scored, while 29 were added by the leading sides.
With eight field goal attempts (two of them successful), Latrell Mitchell and Stephen Crichton masterclasses, trainers spraying footballs with water and Jaeman Salmon spraying Ricky Stuart, the games had it all.
Never far away from the discussion of outrageous momentum swings in the modern game though, are six-agains – one of rugby league’s most seismic rule changes.
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The possession swings of each remarkable double-figure revival on the weekend were as obvious, and dramatic, as it gets.
Canterbury and the Gold Coast enjoyed significantly more time with the ball as they mowed down Canberra and Newcastle respectively, figures that aligned with each round 11 fightback, depending on how far back each team came from.
Coaches and fans point to the set restarts that allow attacking sides to roll on and measure offensive assaults in minutes rather than tackles.
The regular inference is that referees even up contests with six-again calls, which extend possession and speed up the game, with not enough time for the decisions to be properly analysed. It takes two seconds to find a coach who will say this off the record; significantly longer for someone to put their name to it, as Roy Masters and Ivan Cleary did on Friday.
However, of the 44 tries scored in the weekend’s six comeback games, 19 came shortly after a set restart or penalty: 10 for the side storming home and nine for the opposition either rattling up their lead, or clinging to it later.
It’s not a hugely disproportionate figure considering rugby league has always been a game of possession and field position – mounting both is how you mount points.
So far in 2025, Champion Data has recorded six set restarts awarded per game, compared to 5.5 last season.
“Multiple six-agains do allow teams to build momentum undoubtedly, and the way the game’s officiated can have a big impact,” Manly’s Anthony Seibold said.
“But teams chasing down big leads might be more prevalent than ever before because you’ll find teams asking, how can you break the pattern, how do you break that momentum?”
The suggestion from one Sydney coach that the weekend of remarkable revivals is just an anomaly is backed up by the fact that only one other 13-plus half-time deficit has been overturned this year (Raiders v Dolphins in April).
On any given game day, you’ll find an NRL coach drilling into his side that momentum will swing against them, viciously and violently, at one point or another.
“The opposition will run downhill with the ref in their f---ing pocket,” as one put it.
But the contest will eventually swing back your way if you’re good enough. Or for Roosters coach Trent Robinson, creative enough.
“That was the wildest weekend that I’ve seen on the momentum swings,” he said on Monday, having enjoyed the view from his lounge while his team had the bye.
“It’s a credit to where the game’s got to. Defence wins premierships – [and] it still does in the NRL – but there has been this shift towards creativity without the help of field position.
“That’s what’s changed the momentum: teams are attacking really well in the middle of the field. Usually a 10-point lead, people knock it down and it stays that way.
“[Now] a 10-point lead can get obliterated in a couple of minutes ... Teams are going to have to really learn how to control [momentum], how to reverse it a little bit more than we have in the past.”
Six-agains will never be too far from the equation, because one can lead to another, then a try, then another, and what may once have been a three-minute run of possession can double or triple before you know it.
The game swung back against Manly once they’d rallied to 14-all, except instead of six-agains, the Sea Eagles’ handling cruelled them on Sunday. Cronulla’s last three tries in 15 minutes were all preceded by a Manly mistake – maybe the only surefire way to kill off a rugby league comeback for good.
Canterbury and the Gold Coast enjoyed significantly more time with the ball as they mowed down Canberra and Newcastle respectively, figures that aligned with each round 11 fightback, depending on how far back each team came from.
Coaches and fans point to the set restarts that allow attacking sides to roll on and measure offensive assaults in minutes rather than tackles.
The regular inference is that referees even up contests with six-again calls, which extend possession and speed up the game, with not enough time for the decisions to be properly analysed. It takes two seconds to find a coach who will say this off the record; significantly longer for someone to put their name to it, as Roy Masters and Ivan Cleary did on Friday.
However, of the 44 tries scored in the weekend’s six comeback games, 19 came shortly after a set restart or penalty: 10 for the side storming home and nine for the opposition either rattling up their lead, or clinging to it later.
It’s not a hugely disproportionate figure considering rugby league has always been a game of possession and field position – mounting both is how you mount points.
So far in 2025, Champion Data has recorded six set restarts awarded per game, compared to 5.5 last season.
“Multiple six-agains do allow teams to build momentum undoubtedly, and the way the game’s officiated can have a big impact,” Manly’s Anthony Seibold said.
“But teams chasing down big leads might be more prevalent than ever before because you’ll find teams asking, how can you break the pattern, how do you break that momentum?”
The suggestion from one Sydney coach that the weekend of remarkable revivals is just an anomaly is backed up by the fact that only one other 13-plus half-time deficit has been overturned this year (Raiders v Dolphins in April).
On any given game day, you’ll find an NRL coach drilling into his side that momentum will swing against them, viciously and violently, at one point or another.
“The opposition will run downhill with the ref in their f---ing pocket,” as one put it.
But the contest will eventually swing back your way if you’re good enough. Or for Roosters coach Trent Robinson, creative enough.
“That was the wildest weekend that I’ve seen on the momentum swings,” he said on Monday, having enjoyed the view from his lounge while his team had the bye.
“It’s a credit to where the game’s got to. Defence wins premierships – [and] it still does in the NRL – but there has been this shift towards creativity without the help of field position.
“That’s what’s changed the momentum: teams are attacking really well in the middle of the field. Usually a 10-point lead, people knock it down and it stays that way.
“[Now] a 10-point lead can get obliterated in a couple of minutes ... Teams are going to have to really learn how to control [momentum], how to reverse it a little bit more than we have in the past.”
Canterbury’s second and third tries against Canberra, Tom Dearden’s show-stopper to level up against Penrith and Manly’s 90-metre stunner against Cronulla all subscribe to the above.Six-agains will never be too far from the equation, because one can lead to another, then a try, then another, and what may once have been a three-minute run of possession can double or triple before you know it.
The game swung back against Manly once they’d rallied to 14-all, except instead of six-agains, the Sea Eagles’ handling cruelled them on Sunday. Cronulla’s last three tries in 15 minutes were all preceded by a Manly mistake – maybe the only surefire way to kill off a rugby league comeback for good.
hank37w
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I dream that one day we will be a team that is capable, against all adversity, to come back from a huge deficit and actually win a game instead of collapsing like a house of cards.
Rock Hopper Steve
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Lol that's kiss a frog turn into a prince stuff, not what the Tigers dish up, an episode from Fractured Fairytales.
hank37w
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Yes, what the Tigers dish up would no doubt be somehow arse about. 🤣
mtd#2
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NRL 360 suggesting that Galvin could still be off to the Bulldogs
AmericanHistoryX
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Hope so. Maybe they stop playing like a team. And just have 1 hero.
BAGNF05
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Odds shorten every time he watches Parramatta play.
TigerBurnsy
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I know many will hate it if Galvin sign with Gould (I will too) but I think it benefits us greatly if he goes there, much more talent for a swap deal than Parra
AmericanHistoryX
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Hate him? Means you hate a part of yourself. Not me man. Hope he breaks a leg.
mtd#2
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But who?
