OFFICIAL Lachlan Galvin #277 *Released* Career Discussion.

Tiger_Yoshi said:
FWIW, I work with a prominent player Agents son (name withheld) and he often shares at high level some intel on clubs…apparently the Eels are not fussed if Brown leaves, they were not convinced by Browns performances last year when. Moses was out injured….they are prepared to throw up to $1.4m a season to lure Galvin to partner Moses for the next 10 years…The Galvin family and his Manager are aware of their intentions
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I reckon Parra are our biggest threat, I’ve said before, if you really love your club, you’d go back.
 
Tiger_Yoshi said:
FWIW, I work with a prominent player Agents son (name withheld) and he often shares at high level some intel on clubs…apparently the Eels are not fussed if Brown leaves, they were not convinced by Browns performances last year when. Moses was out injured….they are prepared to throw up to $1.4m a season to lure Galvin to partner Moses for the next 10 years…The Galvin family and his Manager are aware of their intentions
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Good to see Parra have learnt their lesson about long contracts on big coin paid on potential...
 
Tiger_Yoshi said:
FWIW, I work with a prominent player Agents son (name withheld) and he often shares at high level some intel on clubs…apparently the Eels are not fussed if Brown leaves, they were not convinced by Browns performances last year when. Moses was out injured….they are prepared to throw up to $1.4m a season to lure Galvin to partner Moses for the next 10 years…The Galvin family and his Manager are aware of their intentions
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Don't need intel to know that, any casual fan knows Brown is overrated. But to all the clubs interested in his services, start a bidding war please.
 
jrtiger said:
Penrith's cap model is what needs to be adopted by WT. identify your core and attribute a percentage of the cap to said core, and fill the rest of the squad with local juniors and solid first graders.

on Galvin, it's extremely hard to determine his value as he's 19 and has only played one season in a poor quality team where he was given the license to roam. the first six weeks of this year is going to go a long way to determining his value.

I think right now he's probably worth $650k, which could rise to potentially $800k depending on how he gels with Jarome. there is no way he's worth seven figures. talk to me when he's been part of a side that's made finals and he's playing regular rep footy.
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It didn’t start off that way though.
Before success came say 2019 Penrith had paid two marquee recruits as their highest paid players and possibly Nathan Cleary.
Everyone of their core players were developed within and would have cost them about 60-70% of what they would get on the open market.
Our current situation is similar with our two highest paid also being our most important recruits and a couple of lingering high paid ‘marquees’ surplus to demands ie Klemmer.
Unfortunately we are at the 2014 state of Penrith and not the 2020 stage. We won’t have the same luxury that they had to manage their cap around their core as we will be over paying for ours for quite a while. The big change for Penrith happened in 2019 where some of those inflated contracts were moved on an emphasis was placed on enhancing the profile of the local guys.
The other interesting thing and this goes a long way to their long term success.
There biggest profile exports have been local juniors and or recruited to the club and into their system from a young age. If they were once unknowns like Fish and Luai becoming marquee talents; why can’t a new bunch of unknowns be developed to replace them.
Ice recruited this year is their highest profile signing since Capewell in 2020 and even then he wasn’t a guaranteed starter for Penrith when he was recruited across.
Long way to go for us to look like them, on and off the field.
 
Needaname said:
Before success came say 2019 Penrith had paid two marquee recruits as their highest paid players and possibly Nathan Cleary.

Everyone of their core players were developed within and would have cost them about 60-70% of what they would get on the open market.

Unfortunately we are at the 2014 state of Penrith and not the 2020 stage. We won’t have the same luxury that they had to manage their cap around their core as we will be over paying for ours for quite a while. The big change for Penrith happened in 2019 where some of those inflated contracts were moved on an emphasis was placed on enhancing the profile of the local guys.

There biggest profile exports have been local juniors and or recruited to the club and into their system from a young age. If they were once unknowns like Fish and Luai becoming marquee talents; why can’t a new bunch of unknowns be developed to replace them.
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fair post, I agree with a lot of it. obviously we're a long way away from winning a comp, but there are some similarities in what we've done in the last six months to Penrith in 2020.

the roster turnover has been rapid. within 12 months we've seen Bateman, Papali'i, Sullivan* and Utoikamanu head for the exits, with potentially Klemmer and Olam to follow. some of them we've paid significant freight to see leave, which isn't too dissimilar to Penrith pushing guys like RCG and Waqa Blake out the door.

we're going to take time to get the development pipeline flowing constantly like Penrith, but I don't think we're far off. Bula, Galvin, Tallyn, Mason, Latu, Samuela and Sione have all come into grade across the past two years.

the next crop – likely Makasini, Haywood, Taupau-Moors, Godinet, Brookes, Tauaifaiga and Duncombe – will all begin to poke their heads through in 2026-27. it's at that point I anticipate you'll begin to see an emphasis of enahncing the profile of our juniors.

I don't think it's going to be a similar 'rise' to Penrith, quite frankly I think it's already completely different, but we've moved a lot of players on and brought in new players, who will be supplanted by our juniors in due course.
 
jrtiger said:
fair post, I agree with a lot of it. obviously we're a long way away from winning a comp, but there are some similarities in what we've done in the last six months to Penrith in 2020.

the roster turnover has been rapid. within 12 months we've seen Bateman, Papali'i, Sullivan* and Utoikamanu head for the exits, with potentially Klemmer and Olam to follow. some of them we've paid significant freight to see leave, which isn't too dissimilar to Penrith pushing guys like RCG and Waqa Blake out the door.

we're going to take time to get the development pipeline flowing constantly like Penrith, but I don't think we're far off. Bula, Galvin, Tallyn, Mason, Latu, Samuela and Sione have all come into grade across the past two years.

the next crop – likely Makasini, Haywood, Taupau-Moors, Godinet, Brookes, Tauaifaiga and Duncombe – will all begin to poke their heads through in 2026-27. it's at that point I anticipate you'll begin to see an emphasis of enahncing the profile of our juniors.

I don't think it's going to be a similar 'rise' to Penrith, quite frankly I think it's already completely different, but we've moved a lot of players on and brought in new players, who will be supplanted by our juniors in due course.
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I agree with a lot of what you’re saying there. It’s fair to say that perhaps our ‘core base’ isn’t going to be established as juniors until such time you mentioned.
Until then though our ‘core’ are all recruits and experienced ones.
A crystal ball look ahead 5 years from now you may find our recruits (and old faithfuls like Twal and Seyfarth) have moved on and we have a much different looking team with someone like Bula being and potentially Galvin being our key senior players.
The importance is though on this next 4-5 years of extracting as much as we can from these imports, their experiences, their leadership and in the short term their ability to build a competitive roster over that time.
Prehaps we are more like Sticky’s raiders that made a turn after recruiting in a number of professionals and representatives into a talented base of juniors and growing the team up around them. Mind you sticky still hasn’t had that success but since post 2014/2015 seasons the Raiders have not been easy beats.
 
We should be concerned about players like, Laurie, Garner, Blore, Stefano, Kepaoa, Eisenhuth, Talau and others we gave an nrl start but for whatever reason our training, coaching and experience did not see them flying high. All of those players will be instrumental in getting their new clubs into the finals in 25.
We are leaking decent players. Can anyone seriously see Galvin staying in November?
 
twentyforty said:
We should be concerned about players like, Laurie, Garner, Blore, Stefano, Kepaoa, Eisenhuth, Talau and others we gave an nrl start but for whatever reason our training, coaching and experience did not see them flying high. All of those players will be instrumental in getting their new clubs into the finals in 25.
We are leaking decent players. Can anyone seriously see Galvin staying in November?
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All of those departees are average first graders at best,surrounded by better players in far superior coaching environments
With the exception of Blore.who already had one foot out the door,none of them are what Id call regrettable losses.And even he is the weakest backrower at the Storm for perspective
..and no...I cant see Galvin staying beyond November unless our team significantly over achieves in 2025 with at worst a mid table finish which takes that issue out of the argument.
Even then,others will be more desperate.and I Moses is notexactly a friend of our club
Wait see..but ensure the exit strategy is in place...Latus performances play a huge role
 
twentyforty said:
We should be concerned about players like, Laurie, Garner, Blore, Stefano, Kepaoa, Eisenhuth, Talau and others we gave an nrl start but for whatever reason our training, coaching and experience did not see them flying high. All of those players will be instrumental in getting their new clubs into the finals in 25.
We are leaking decent players. Can anyone seriously see Galvin staying in November?
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Kepaoa wasn't even on the plane to Vegas.
 
twentyforty said:
We should be concerned about players like, Laurie, Garner, Blore, Stefano, Kepaoa, Eisenhuth, Talau and others we gave an nrl start but for whatever reason our training, coaching and experience did not see them flying high. All of those players will be instrumental in getting their new clubs into the finals in 25.
We are leaking decent players. Can anyone seriously see Galvin staying in November?
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I honestly think he is 30 percent chance of staying long term

The club wants him to stay if he wanted to stay it would be done by now and just concentrate on the season ahead
 
Galvin has the potential to earn a huge amount of money for a 19/20 year old - of course he is going to let this play out while ever there is significant interest. You would be hard pressed to find anyone who could truthfully say they wouldn't do the same if you were in his position.
 
Jedi_Tiger said:
brown to newcastle
galvin to parramatta
would seem likely
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I think it is less likely as the season plays out.
We are starting the season with him as our first choice half (alongside Luai) to play on the right. Exactly the same side as Mitch Moses plays. He could play on the right all year for us, being in the dominant side for his kicking game and effectively sharing the responsibilities as a left right side half duo.
There’s no chance he will go back to being second fiddle alongside Moses. I think he would stay with it with us, or look for a team that has an another left foot / left side kicker as his halves partner until his physical growth forces him infield.
 
Tiger_Yoshi said:
FWIW, I work with a prominent player Agents son (name withheld) and he often shares at high level some intel on clubs…apparently the Eels are not fussed if Brown leaves, they were not convinced by Browns performances last year when. Moses was out injured….they are prepared to throw up to $1.4m a season to lure Galvin to partner Moses for the next 10 years…The Galvin family and his Manager are aware of their intentions
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there is a lot of disinformation that goes on with stuff like this … it could be true .., or maybe they have their eye on someone else and have put this rumour out there to throw people off the scent ..,

I actually thought Galvin was adamant he wouldn’t play for the Eels again … and I thought he wanted to go somewhere good … they could be behind us this season.
 
Tom Shines said:
there is a lot of disinformation that goes on with stuff like this … it could be true .., or maybe they have their eye on someone else and have put this rumour out there to throw people off the scent ..,

I actually thought Galvin was adamant he wouldn’t play for the Eels again … and I thought he wanted to go somewhere good … they could be behind us this season.
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There are a few variables at play, he’s not signing anything for anyone early.
 
On the bright side. Galvin has enough love letters for a lifetime. Thank you all for your entries. Caught everyone's imagination Tucker. Not just yours.
 
twentyforty said:
We should be concerned about players like, Laurie, Garner, Blore, Stefano, Kepaoa, Eisenhuth, Talau and others we gave an nrl start but for whatever reason our training, coaching and experience did not see them flying high. All of those players will be instrumental in getting their new clubs into the finals in 25.
We are leaking decent players. Can anyone seriously see Galvin staying in November?
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Most of those listed aren't better players, they're just in better teams. Put Luke Garner in a non-top 8 team and his performance reverts to what it was with us plus natural improvement.

Ditto Daine Laurie. Put him in the Dragons and he struggles.
 
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