Strider
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I dunno why ppl keep rating Mason tbh hah, maybe i will see it one day.
OFFICIAL Lachlan Galvin #277 *Released* Career Discussion.
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Other coaches have worked him out and pushing him sideways in attack. As we have no real shape in attack, he is going nowhere. Also, big forwards targeting him and running straight at him.
Terry T.Nuts
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Douehi can see out this year then piss off next year when we have Taylan May and Toa in the centres. It is painful watching poor old Douehi try to run, he is stuck in cement 99% of the time and offers no attacking threat at all.
hank37w
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He was pointing out how limp and floppy it is which is why he couldn't ground the ball for the match winning try. Pathetic.
hank37w
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Not necessarily regarded as a hero because if he actually scored that try it would have been the only thing that he did right all game, would only partially make up for all the other dud moves he tried to pull off the rest of the game.
Curly_Tiger
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We should revise our offer
If it was a real market his value would be dropping
If it was a real market his value would be dropping
Tom Shines
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story I heard is that he has a matching tattoo with his old coach now at the Bulldogs …. lol if true …
hank37w
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He'll do a Hunt and lose a Grand Final for his team, assuming he ever gets that far.
hank37w
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But then so was the one made to Stefano, fortunately for us neither of them were taken up and we were lucky to dodge another bullet.
Richo must be certain that these offers are not going to be taken up and must do it to make the players and their half wit managers look like a bunch of brain dead fools for not taking up the best deal they could possibly get.
The thing with Lachy now is I don't think he cares if we win lose or draw and that's how he is playing. He and his team have got his future mapped out elsewhere and WTs losing justifies their decision given that they think he is too good for them - taking no accountability for his own performances.
The glory look at me reaction after he scored/didn't score did it for me after what was a pretty rubbish game.
Want something for him but at this point I can see why people think the best option is to move him on.
The glory look at me reaction after he scored/didn't score did it for me after what was a pretty rubbish game.
Want something for him but at this point I can see why people think the best option is to move him on.
hank37w
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I think that anyone that watched the game would have made pretty much the same observations.
Tucker
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That is a really dangerous game to play. If those two took up their deals, what would the side look like next year?
Agree —-however he could come to life at another club just like Mitchell Moses only then we see what his full potential is whether he’s a pretender or an elite!
hank37w
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Unless we get something very good in return I feel that making him play out the rest of his contract in a lower grade would gain us the respect of most of the other clubs and may force the hand of the NRL do something about player managers and contracts, something that really needs sorting out on the eve of NRL expansion.
diedpretty
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Mose was twice the player Galvin is when he left. Just his kicking game alone put him street's ahead
Tucker
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I really dont think he believes he is too good for us.
I reckon he is well aware of his flaws and inconsistencies and is frustrated that they arent being ironed out through adequate development. He has always struck me as a simple sort of kid who just loves to play footy...and become a great player.
Put yourself in his shoes for a moment. For the past 2 years, he has had everyone at the club telling him how good he is, he has been Mr Popularity as he has been classed as one of our guns who is constantly talked up by coaches and his peers publicly. He has been given free reign to play the game as he sees it, making it fun more than a chore or job. The guy takes the field bouncing like a little kid, all smiles and full of confidence. New players join the club and they start talking him up...and some of them are elite! The team is playing better than the last few years and all is positive...until it is no longer so.
The guy went from being talked up as a future Test player and a franchise winning leader to being despised in one afternoon. Fans on social media, who were so over the top with their sickly sweet sychophancy last year now want him hung from the scoreboard at Leichhardt. The club's management are angry and releasing statements and holding press conferences, your peers are taking the piss out of you publicly, the media painting you as the devil, describing you and your family in ways that arent true. Training is awkward and no one is giving you the time they were a week ago. You train, you go home. You play, you go home. I doubt the invites for socialising outside of work are on offer any more.
You are ostracised from the group you spend the most time with. If this was a normal job, youd submit your 4 weeks notice, use up your sick leave and just dissapear. Youd cop the backstabbing for a little while and then youd never see these people again. This situation is very different. His leave notice was 18 months.
It seems obvious to me that this kid is desperately upset and thats why he is playing so poorly. As I said earlier, he isnt a rocket scientist...he loves the game and it is fun to him. It no longer is that way. Now Im sure many on here will say "serves him right", "he brought it all on himself", "I hope this is really tearing him up on the inside"...etc. However, the facts are, he is contracted here for the next 43 playing weeks as well as one more preseason. He is a young 19 year old as well and that must seem like a life sentence to him. There is no good end to this saga. I think we will release him early with nothing in return. The kid is crashing and burning. Every loss is being blamed on him, every poor performance is killing his wild enthusiasm. This is fast becoming a mental health issue. When people feel they have no way out...well we know how some respond. It is a terrible situation for all, and a situation all have had a hand in creating.
weststigerman
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He actually did in the schoolboys grand final with the game on the line. Only difference is one of his teammates stepped up and made up for his error so they won.
