Don’t know about all that, sounds like he’s just going to go for the best club and money second to me. He only pulled his head in for trying to leave the club, when other players started bad mouthing him!
OFFICIAL Lachlan Galvin #277 *Released* Career Discussion.
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To me he sounds like he is a kid who just wants to play footy!
The rest is idle gossip!
hank37w
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Should have read, "make it happen at the Tigers"
Might have made a few people on here a bit more comfortable.
Might have made a few people on here a bit more comfortable.
Tiger_Yoshi
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He is keeping his cards close to his chest about his future....Like I said sounds typical Issac Moses talk. I can assure you if we dont look like making the 8, he is gone....and even if he does sign with the WT, it will be 2 years max..He is not interested in becoming a franchise WT player,,,..he wants to play for a winning club....Roosters/Dogs/Broncos....they are all watching him closely...Lachlan Galvin opens up on Wests Tigers future, Jarome Luai partnership, new tattoos
Lachlan Galvin has a new look, new ink and a new halves partner for the 2025 season. Is it the signs of new beginnings at the Wests Tigers? Hear from the teen star on his Tigers future, Jarome Luai and more.
Matt Encarnacion
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January 19, 2025 - 5:00AM
The responses are in: The NRL’s hottest rookie just got a lot hotter.
“Honestly, I woke up one more morning and I was in the shower and said, ‘I’m going to keep it’. I’m not going to shave it off,” a new-look Lachlan Galvin says of his goatee.
“I’m still trying to find my best look for myself. I thought I’ll give it a trial for the start of this year. But the boys love it. They think I’m hot now. So I’ll take that.”
But the five o’clock shadow isn’t the only thing noticeably different about the Wests Tigers’ boy wonder.
Ahead of his second season in the big league, Matt Encarnacion sits down with Galvin to talk about Jarome Luai, his long-term future, and another new addition to his body.
It’s a new-look Lachlan Galvin for 2025. Picture: Richard Dobson
THE TATTOOS
Goatees aren’t permanent, but the new ink on his right arm is.
And Galvin isn’t shy about revealing the extra motivation he’s literally wearing as he attempts to build on one of the more impressive rookie campaigns in recent memory.
The first is a pact with Westfield Sports High teammates Sosefa Finau, a back-rower who is in the Bulldogs system, and Jeremiah Leatigaga, a lock who’s with Galvin at the Tigers.
The tattoo reads: Make it happen.
Wests Tigers star Lachlan Galvin shows off his new tattoo. Picture: Supplied
“We’ve grown up since we were 13 together and they’re everything to me, my best mates. They’ve been my rock, at school, coming up,” Galvin said.
“We’ve always wanted to play NRL together, so we always had this quote, ‘You gotta make it happen’. No one else can do it for you. You’ve got to do it yourself.”
All three teenagers were part of Westfield Sports High’s triumphant National Schoolboys Cup title-winning team in 2023.
The other fresh ink on Galvin is the initials: I.N.F.E.
It stands for, ‘It’s not for everyone’.
It is dedicated to his old school coach Luke Vella, whose own rugby league career was cut short by a shoulder injury that tore three nerves down the left side of his body.
Vella is now an NRL assistant coach to Cameron Ciraldo at the Bulldogs.
“He’s one of the main reasons why I’m playing NRL at the moment,” Galvin said.
“He was massive for me and I owe him everything. I thought I’ll get a bit of a tattoo reminding me of him on my arm because he done so much for me.
“It’s such a true quote. It’s really not for everyone. The hard work, the sacrifices you make. You’ve got to work hard to get to this point.”
THE NEW PARTNER
Some time over the next fortnight, Galvin will tee off against star signing and new halves partner Jarome Luai to decide who is the better golfer.
“He’s a bit scared I’ll beat him. He thinks he’s a good golfer but I’ll bring up his surfing skills,” Galvin laughs.
Jarome Luai has Tigers fans excited for 2025. Picture: Richard Dobson
Luai has arrived with all the fanfare of a rugby league saviour, having not cut his hair since the first Penrith’s four straight premierships in 2021.
Galvin has played 21 games and has only just discovered facial hair.
But the club and its long-suffering fanbase are banking on the pair fast-tracking their chemistry as a halves pairing to end a run of three straight wooden spoons.
“He is a superstar. I’m a bit of a shy kid. So I didn’t really want to make the first move,” Galvin said.
“It was a bit surreal seeing him for the first time, meeting him and that. He think he’s funny, he tries to take the piss out of me so I try and give it back to him.”
Galvin says the most important part of building on-field rapport is off it.
“If you can talk and go up to him and pretty much say anything, and he can come up to me and say anything, on the field, you’ll get each other,” he said.
“We’re training every day and building combinations, but off the field is the most important thing. Really getting to know each other, going out.
“We’ve built that in the new year and a couple of weeks last year. But off the field it’s been good. He’s really tried to compliment me and come up to me.”
THE FUTURE
Luai has started the first of a mammoth five-year deal worth $6 million, albeit with a clause that opens the door for him to leave after two seasons.
Galvin is on a rookie deal that currently ends in November.
And the 19-year-old is in no rush to extend, which is a stance that, should the Tigers climb off the canvas this year, will result in a healthy pay increase.
“I’m a bit different. I don’t really want it to happen at the moment,” Galvin said.
“I just want to play this year out, play my best footy. I know with the team we’ve got now, I know we can go really well and I don’t want that interrupting (anything).
It’s easy to forget Galvin is just 19 with the talent he has shown already. Picture: Jason McCawley/Getty Images
“When it happens, it happens. I’ll talk to my manager and parents about it, and they can talk to the club about it. I really want to stay out of that.
“When I play my best footy, I don’t want to have distractions or excuses this year because it is me second year. There’s all that second year syndrome. I don’t want any of that.”
All signs point to a long career ahead for Galvin, particularly after getting a taste of representative football with the Prime Minister’s XIII in Papua New Guinea late last year.
It was the second year in a row Galvin had visited the pacific nation, who will soon be attempting to lure players over when they enter the competition in 2028.
Asked whether he could see himself calling PNG home any time soon, Galvin said: “I don’t know, to be honest. We’ll have to wait and see.
“They love their rugby league over there. I was only fresh this year into the NRL and we went over there and they all knew who I was. They must watch and study the game.
And they were good competition, who we (played against). They were strong as, those boys. They’re going to be a force in the future when they’re in the NRL.”
GNR4LIFE
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A player publicly being non committal to his current club is never a good sign. He didn’t even hint that he’d like to stay. All this stuff about winning is BS. We were getting better results when we lost Tedesco and co. Being a competitive side didn’t matter. If a club comes along in a significantly stronger position to win a premiership and the money is good (which it will be), he’ll be gone. I don’t get a single vibe from him that he has a passion for the club. I think he’s out to get the best possible deal for himself. His prerogative at the end of the day, but disappointing to us supporters
Tigerwould
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We should try and sign Luke Vella his coaching mentor and Sosefa Finau from the Bulldogs
Tiger_Yoshi
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Spot on and well said...I feel the same 100%...If I were Richo, I'd be sitting both Galvin and Latu Fainu down before round 1 and say to them, sign a 4 year extension and you are guarranteed to play alongside Luai for the rest of the year and beyond..otherwise you are second string 5/8.
Rock Hopper Steve
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Then there's the complete opposite that will let you down as well look at Stef previously smiling saying how much he loves the club and wants to be club captain one day and next gone nobody knows what's going on in Galvan's head if he stays good if not bye bye, I have said this before junior catchment is huge now in 2 years time more good players should emerge Galvan came out of nowhere it will happen again.
If benji can’t coach galvin is gone
We’d have to be winning at least first 5 out of 10 games to even have a shot at getting him to extend before November 1.
My mail from people close to the club is that benji is a “sh’t coach” and that people are in galvins ear that “you don’t know how bad it is at the tigers until you go to another club”.
But let’s see.
Fingers crossed.
To be fair if Richo and Luai can’t get him to stay - only a great coach like Wayne or Robbo or Cleary or Bellamy could.
We’d have to be winning at least first 5 out of 10 games to even have a shot at getting him to extend before November 1.
My mail from people close to the club is that benji is a “sh’t coach” and that people are in galvins ear that “you don’t know how bad it is at the tigers until you go to another club”.
But let’s see.
Fingers crossed.
To be fair if Richo and Luai can’t get him to stay - only a great coach like Wayne or Robbo or Cleary or Bellamy could.
GNR4LIFE
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The two things that Richo will be measured on is whether he retains Galvin and how quick he is to act if Benji isn’t getting results.
WesternSuburbsBoy
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You’re sitting here saying that Galvin is being non committal to the club & that he already has his eyes on the exit door but then say Richos success will be measured on if he gets Galvin to stay? a bit contradictory don’t you think.
He’s in such a hard place tho
The big signings signed for benji
But also - which big name coach is free that would retain someone like galvin on their own? None.
So I reckon Richo is praying hard that Benji can coach or luai can just pull the team up on his own
Time will tell
GNR4LIFE
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Losing our best junior would not reflect well on the CEO. A CEO some claim to be the best administrator in the game.
Mighty_Tiger
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Gonna be a fun Galvin contract year by the sounds of it.
Rock Hopper Steve
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The angst and debate is going to linger all season unfortunately
The Chad
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I'm so glad we have Latu
Tito Santana
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Make him an offer and give him a dead line.
I think he goes regardless it seems.
Roosters bound for sure.
Stefano all over again.
We’ve got Latu anyway.
I think he goes regardless it seems.
Roosters bound for sure.
Stefano all over again.
We’ve got Latu anyway.
GNR4LIFE
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Deadlines have nearly a 100% success rate of the player not signing.
Rock Hopper Steve
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Yeah just leads them to the exit quicker.
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