OFFICIAL Lachlan Galvin #277 *Released* Career Discussion.

Magpie_Magic said:
Look Galvin is just a rookie, but he is a good defender in comparison to most 5/8s and especially at 18.

But just thinking about the the best defensive halves I've seen since 1975.

1) Wally Lewis tied with Ellery Hanley.

Daylight second.

2) Andrew Johns and Terry Lamb.

3) Brad Fittler and Greg Florimo

4) Tom Raudonikis and Alfie Langer an also Des Hasler .

Honarable mentions to Mick Neil, Michael Morgan, Kevin Walters.

I'm sure I missed someone.
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Kevie wasn't a great defender
 
happy_tiger said:
Kevie wasn't a great defender
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Your right, I took it back.

And we may discover that Galvin turns out a 13 in the future.

Even the black pearl was a centre and lock also.

Just a reminder how difficult it is find a good defender in the halves especially 5/8.

That's why the King was the best ever at 5/8. A leader, a runner, a passer a defender and tough as.
 
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Magpie_Magic said:
Your right, I took it back.

And we may discover that Galvin turns out a 13 in the future.

Even the black pearl was a centre and lock also.

Just a reminder how difficult it is find a good defender in the halves especially 5/8.

That's why the King was the best ever at 5/8. A leader, a runner, a passer a defender and tough as.
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I raise you Brett Kenny,Wally was a great player and could play more positions but Kenny was a better 5/8 imho
 
Magpie_Magic said:
Sounds poor. Thought lots of players were off their game from the outset from both sides last night despite the tremendous intensity and commitment obviously.

How does Luai rank defensively for missed tackles as a half through year throughout the competition?

Don't have stat's but would think he is above average as a defender in his position.
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The most underrated part of luai's game. People think he's a poor defender somehow, or look at a stats sheet of missed tackles and avoid tackles going for a hit rather than wrapping the ball up, and some 'falling off' tackles which are intentional.

Here's a fact. In regular season and finals this year, the left side of penrith is the best defensive edge in the NRL conceding only 21 tries all season. That is less than 1 try a game on average. Now we look at who is on that left edge for penrith. Turuva/To'o throughout the year (turuva's defence on the right was shocking. At centre: Taylan May for the first half of the year, then Alamoti, then he gets injured and young rookie Casey Maclean comes in, then Alamoti returns. At second row, sorenson is in and out of the team all year with a niggling hamstring injury, garner develops his game to a new level, and mav geyer fills in. But the constant? Luai.

Another area of his game this year was the stepping back in that looks repetitive and annoying to watch, but it fractures defences and is unpredictable no matter how many times he does it. He did some of it in origin at 5/8 and for penrith, but when he was halfback he was much straighter. In the last few years before this one, he was known as probably the best half at giving early ball and setting up his outside men, because he's had some guns in Crichton, Kikau, Burton, To'o, Tago and others. However this year, he had to adapt to sorenson being out for a big part of the year, Taylan May who was more of a winger than centre, as well as rookie centres in alamoti and maclean, with turuva not known as a prolific try scorer. This stepping motion was mainly when he was first receiver on the latter part of the tackle counts. Watch the GF, instead of going right, Luai loops a 20 metre left-to-right pass to Cleary after identifying a haunched over Shawn Blore and nathan puts martin through for a key try just before half-time.
 
I just heard him on SEN and he radiates great energy. Every interview I hear or see he has a smile on his face and always talk’s positive. I know he won’t publicly smash the club anyway but he genuinely seems happy here. I enjoy watching his interviews he does give off great vibes for our future. Fingers crossed he and Romey form a great partnership to get us rolling early next year.
 
Tiger_claws said:
I just heard him on SEN and he radiates great energy. Every interview I hear or see he has a smile on his face and always talk’s positive. I know he won’t publicly smash the club anyway but he genuinely seems happy here. I enjoy watching his interviews he does give off great vibes for our future. Fingers crossed he and Romey form a great partnership to get us rolling early next year.
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This is the interview here for those who missed it: https://audio.com/mark-davis-1/audio/lachygalvin-interview-sen1170
 
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