OFFICIAL Lachlan Galvin #277 *Released* Career Discussion.

We are a completely different club from when we lost Teddy and Moses..

If we lose Galvin we still have Laui, Latu, Api, Bula, May, etc...
There WILL be players out there that would love to come here and play with this team.

Richardson knows how to build a club and what he has done in 12 months is outrageous.. Souths wanted him back, but he signed here. (best signing we have had as a JV)

We deserve this success and if Galvin doesn't want to stay for the rewards it's his lose IMO
 
bbobb said:
I think it showed that he is more effective playing a little wider of the ruck at the moment. He doesn’t need to touch the ball 5 times a set. Just pick his times to inject himself when he sees an opportunity.

In the To’a/Turuva movement, it was actually Api who played the pivot role and got the defence to slow down which provided Lachie the necessary space to do his thing.
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Watching Galvin live even before the game his an 18/19 yo energizer bunny and is so raw and skinny. So much talent but just a kid. As benji says he just wants to play. Still a bit ball hog ish but it will iron out with Laui. Lachie is the best raw nervous talent I have seen since benji … 🤔 slams coming but we pay what we need
 
hsvjones said:
We are a completely different club from when we lost Teddy and Moses..

If we lose Galvin we still have Laui, Latu, Api, Bula, May, etc...
There WILL be players out there that would love to come here and play with this team.

Richardson knows how to build a club and what he has done in 12 months is outrageous.. Souths wanted him back, but he signed here. (best signing we have had as a JV)

We deserve this success and if Galvin doesn't want to stay for the rewards it's his lose IMO
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Post of the year!!!
 
Year_of_the_Tiger said:
Watching Galvin live even before the game his an 18/19 yo energizer bunny and is so raw and skinny. So much talent but just a kid. As benji says he just wants to play. Still a bit ball hog ish but it will iron out with Laui. Lachie is the best raw nervous talent I have seen since benji … 🤔 slams coming but we pay what we need
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Every time he calls the ball and it’s not on is another rep to learn from. I think we just have to live with that. He’s played less than 30 NRL games. Imagine him at 100 NRL games when he’s played 2 more seasons with Api & Luai.

It’d be madness to let the kid leave at that point.
 
IMO, Galvin is not yet a $1M player. I don't think any 19-year-old NRL player is. He'll get there but like Luai or Brown or Cleary, that contract will come after a period of sustained success. Say at 23/24 years old. Even that is earlier than the others mentioned who didn't get their $1M contract till later. None of them got $1M per year at age 19/20. Luai had to wait til he was 28 and won 4 premierships. This obsession of jumping the gun and paying overs is all player-manager shenanigans to control the narrative and create a false economy.

With that in mind, it is 6 months into this year's deal at the end of April. This is when I think a deal will be presented by WT. A top-up of $250k for the remainder of this year (bringing it up to $500k), an extra $350k for next (bringing it to $700k). Then two more years at $800k pa.

That is the equivalent of another team offering him $1.1M For 2027/2028. No other teams can offer him what we can (due to the extra 18 months we can increase his deal that they can't). And I doubt other teams will offer over $1.1M per season at this stage in his career.

He will be 24 at the end of that contract and that's when he will get his $1M+ per year deal either with us or with someone else. If he doesn't seriously consider that deal, then fine. We keep him for this year (on $250k) and next (on $350k). Have a real crack at top 4 next year with him and save cap space.

My hunch is he extends and all this talk is part of the art of the deal, as frustrating as it may be, and regardless which way it falls we sorta win either way. One way, we keep a local junior on good coin but not overs. The other is we have him for next year on a steal. Win win.
 
watersider said:
He is very rough still. Some brilliant moments and some momentum killing moments. In thinking about his creativity and instincts, however, he is a pretty rare player. There's not many halves out there that have that ability to play that way, let alone teenagers.

I still think katoa is the best young half in the game, his organisation and defense and kicking game already look very consistent and solid. But Galvin is a different sort of player and potentially as valuable.

He's much looser this year which has both created errors and moments of brilliance. He is already a much better player than Moses or brooks ever were for us and he is probably close to that Tedesco level where the tigers game is starting move around him, with or without luai.

You can also see the way luai creates the space for Galvin, holding up the defensive line with his guile, and they are looking like a surprisingly good combination, even though they do still have moments of getting in each others way or pulling in opposite directions.

You can also see that the tigers would still be threatening with only luai, where I'm not confident Galvin could carry the team on his own. In other words, I think luai makes Galvin better and is allowing him to do his random stuff.
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This may be a little random but I see Galvin as a bit of a loose cannon, he can go either way, maybe a bit of a rocks and diamonds type like Benji but I see Fainu as more in the Katoa style of mould.

Both I believe have massive potential but only time will tell how they develop and how successful they will be.
 
upthetigers said:
I want to see more of Latu to be sure
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When Latu
Buttface said:
Patience could be the key to his career though?
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hank37w said:
This may be a little random but I see Galvin as a bit of a loose cannon, he can go either way, maybe a bit of a rocks and diamonds type like Benji but I see Fainu as more in the Katoa style of mould.

Both I believe have massive potential but only time will tell how they develop and how successful they will be.
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Katoa is superior to Galvin in my opinion
 
Galvin has talent but it is up to the board how they manage this talent. The improved season is a start, trying to get Bulldog mate across for next season is another step in the right direction.
 
BAGNF05 said:
The slight double pump showed his instincts beautifully. He’s reading how defenders react to him. It’s that sort of ability that earns the moola.

Edit: Luai did similar with his ball playing on the first try. Genuine ball players creating points. Pretty to watch.
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And Galvin was not involved in that first try despite it being shuffled to his designated right edge. This may have actually been a ploy to have the Defence second guessing thinking that we were going to him on the left - instead, Luai does his thing and thru Bula chiming in, the backs get the ball and viola! TRY!
 
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