OFFICIAL Lachlan Galvin #277 *Released* Career Discussion.

jirskyr said:
Opinion

Tigers to blame as bullies and hypocrites pile on Galvin



Peter FitzSimons

Columnist and author

April 16, 2025 — 11.45am

The Lachie Galvin carry-on?

Friends, when it comes to hyperbolic hypocrisy, when it comes to bullying bastardry, when it comes to sheer shittiness in rugba league, I think we have a post-war record, yes? (Which is saying something.)



Tigers young gun Lachlan Galvin breaks his silence on the decision to leave the club at the end of 2026.

For those who’ve joined us late, Galvin is the 19-year-old wunderkind of the newly resuscitated Wests Tigers, a great player who’s been carving ’em up a little like Benji Marshall in his prime. He’s got verve in his swerve, Veuve in his make-up. He plays champagne rugby league that is a joy to watch!

But here’s the thing. Marshall is now Galvin’s coach, and despite the Tigers recently tabling a $5.5 million offer for five years of the young man’s services, Galvin quietly declined. He did not loudly decline. He quietly declined. All the noise since has come from Tigers management and players. It is understood that the reason for Galvin declining to sign the contract is not because he wants more money, necessarily, but because he thinks he might become a better player under another coach, and that Marshall is not necessarily his kind of coach.

Cue, the said hyperbolic hypocrisy, the bullying bastardry, the sheer shittiness led by – of all people – Jarome Luai, who went so far as to put on his Instagram account an image of god-knows-what, emblazoned with the words: “Team first.”

Sorry, what?

“Team first,” Jarome?

YOU’RE the one saying that? Is that the approach you took, when leaving the team you were born and bred to, the one that raised you as a footballer, the one writ large in your very DNA, Penrith? Or did you just observe the greatest of all rugby league traditions – the very one that the game was founded on in 1908 – to take the money and run?

Well, you’re right, you didn’t quite do that.

For in your case, you paused long enough to put a clause in your contract with the Tigers saying you reserved the right to talk to other clubs at the end of this year, and depart after the 2026 season, if you weren’t happy with the way things were going – or, clearly, if you got a better offer. Can you see much “team first” in that clause, Jarome?

You were joined by Api Koroisau, in the delegation that went to see Marshall on Monday to say you didn’t want to play with Galvin any more, and he should be dropped.

You, Api Koroisau, you? Mate, you didn’t even resist the big bucks as long as Luai did, but left the ’Riff two years ago! Who the hell are you to wring your hands and say Galvin has let the side down by choosing to do precisely what you did?

Two other Tigers players have publicly joined the carry-on, turning on their 19-year-old teammate – and the end result is that Galvin has, unbelievably, been dropped to the NRL’s version of reserve grade.

For what, exactly?

Seriously, to be a player as good as Galvin and find yourself in the NSW Cup, you’d have to think he was guilty of at least one cardinal sin – not going out drinking with the boys after the game? – if not two, but I can’t see any. I repeat: everything he did was quiet. All the noise has come from the Tigers, now leading a baying mob of NRL fans, and Galvin has merely responded to it.

And you, Benji, want to tear him a new one for chasing the money? Which one of you, or your players, hasn’t? The only one I can think of in recent times would be ... Lachie Galvin. As far as we know, money is not the driving force in this imbroglio. He simply doesn’t think Marshall is a great coach. Is this not his right?

The end result of the whole debacle is a Tigers train wreck. Bodies, everywhere. Ill will abounding all around. The Tigers were just back on track, starting to win for the first time in yonks. And now this. Through gross mismanagement, what should have been a minor affair has blown up, de luxe, resulting in one of their star players being sidelined and vilified by all and sundry. Seriously, the online hate against him is extraordinary. (Not quite as bad as the hate your humble correspondent gets when I opine that COVID vaccinations were a good thing that saved millions of people, but close.)

And he’s 19!

Get in the bin, the lot of you hypocrites and bullying bastards.

Oh, and if you’d like to discuss it, I’ll either be in my trailer, or hiding behind JT on the sidelines.
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Peter Fitzsimmons is a dong beater…

SMH procedure on how to maximise views with an opinion piece:
1 - Find a topic that everyone is passionate about and generally share the same opinion on.
2 - Write an emotive piece that is contrary to what everyone is saying, without any regard for the facts.
3 - Publish.
 
tig_prmz said:
Say what you want about Gus, but reading all the articles- he sums up the situation best on his podcast.

People will cut snippets of his quotes to help their narrative, but if you listen to his whole take on it, he hits the nail on the head.
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Just listened to it and he couldnt believe Galvin endorsed the comments about Benji. Very fair comments and said the Tigers were strong!!
 
tig_prmz said:
Say what you want about Gus, but reading all the articles- he sums up the situation best on his podcast.

People will cut snippets of his quotes to help their narrative, but if you listen to his whole take on it, he hits the nail on the head.
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Of course he does he has a vested interest and is using his media interest to get involved in a contractual dispute that no other GM has access to and who he has labeled the best junior talent he has ever seen.
Also just happened to release a player just this week - though he never imagined that Lachlan Galvin would become available while stating this can't go on any further.
Talk about positioning yourself.
 
BlackWhiteGold said:
It is by James Hooper but this paints a slightly different picture on the playing group than what some journos want to believe. Especially if that's what Galvin said to the group. Either he gets tongue twisted with his words or is very egotistical, maybe a bit of both.

www.foxsports.com.au

Truth behind Tigers' bombshell Galvin call... and the comment teammates couldn’t cop — Hoops

Truth behind Tigers' bombshell Galvin call... and the comment teammates couldn’t cop
www.foxsports.com.au www.foxsports.com.au

Key pars ...

The narrative about the Wests Tigers senior playing group demanding teenage five-eighth Lachlan Galvin be axed to NSW Cup is wrong.

Wests Tigers coach Benji Marshall made the decision and then asked the senior players if they supported his line of thinking.

The Tigers senior players agreed with Marshall’s plan to drop Galvin back to Western Suburbs and the Wests Tigers coach ultimately made the call.

....

Given the way the Galvin story has lit up rugby league when the players rolled in for training on Tuesday Wests Tigers coach Marshall asked the local junior if he wanted to address the playing group.

There was no pressure. Galvin didn’t have to talk if he didn’t want to but given the furore that’s erupted to the teenager’s credit he said he was happy to address the group.

Galvin essentially told the Wests Tigers playing group: “You do you and I’ll do me.”

We can only imagine how this was received among the Wests Tigers players.
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You do you, I'll do me...

No wonder they blew up...

Fkwit
 
MightyTigerPies said:
Peter Fitzsimmons is a dong beater…

SMH procedure on how to maximise views with an opinion piece:
1 - Find a topic that everyone is passionate about and generally share the same opinion on.
2 - Write an emotive piece that is contrary to what everyone is saying, without any regard for the facts.
3 - Publish.
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Being a famous author PF should write a series of articles on Rugby players who bolt overseas for the cash and leave his beloved Wallabies languishing at no 8 in the world rankings.
 
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