One hand you bag them to commenting next you complain they don’t correct narratives.
Be consistent.
OFFICIAL Lachlan Galvin #277 *Released* Career Discussion.
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One hand you bag them to commenting next you complain they don’t correct narratives.
Be consistent.
Tucker
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It’s two sides of the same coin.
hank37w
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Possibly a non disclosure agreement in play due to the fact that it may have looked like the Wests Tigers actually had some sort of a win in what the media are painting as a losing position.
hank37w
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I hope he has a career ending injury that the insurer fails to pay out on.
hank37w
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. . . . and beat them in an elimination semi. 🤣
mtd#2
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Id love to say it's unbelievable but it is the norm...Canterbury’s signing of Lachlan Galvin might make or break the Bulldogs’ most promising title tilt in more than a decade.
To many, it could have them contending for premierships for the next decade.
Brad Fittler, as is his way, is thinking bigger.
The man Phil Gould has compared Galvin to, more than once, as the most prodigious teen he’s seen in 50 years of footy, sees a play-making upside where most don’t see an NRL halfback yet.
“They could change the way the game is played,” Fittler says.
Cameron Ciraldo’s Belmore rebuild has already been constructed on a high-octane ‘check and release’ defensive system that has consistently ranked them among the worst teams for missed tackles (12th this year, 17th last season), yet conceded fewer points (18.31 per game) than any side in the past 18 months.
Lachlan Galvin trains with the Bulldogs.Credit:Canterbury Bulldogs
How the Canterbury coach navigates Galvin’s delicate introduction to the ladder-leaders is the latest fascinating watch in the 19-year-old’s enthralling career.
The Bulldogs have signed him on a deal worth more than $2.5 million with the No.7 jersey firmly in mind, though Ciraldo discussed several positions with the young tyro before signing him, and no position has been promised.
Still, Fittler posits a scrum base set-up that builds on the foot speed, small forwards and short passing that Canterbury’s attack has developed effectively this season, with Galvin in the seven.
“If you sat with Burton, and then Galvin, one’s a left-footer, one’s a right-footer, you play Galvin on the right,” Fittler said on The Sunday Footy Show.
“These days, locks are pretty much like halves, people like [Bulldogs utility] Bailey Hayward.
“You could play someone in the middle as a link to both of [halves]. And then all of a sudden, the game really changes.
“The one thing you could also do is stop sitting your halfback in the line so you get 120-kilo blokes running at them, but sit him behind the line, so he can pop in wherever he needs to. This could be a game-changer.”
Like the high-energy, desperate defence Ciraldo crafted for Ivan Cleary at Penrith, Fittler’s suggestion sounds a lot like the Panthers’ championing of Isaah Yeo as the best ball-playing lock in the game.
Off-air, the former NSW coach explains further.
That Canterbury’s lightweight forwards like Hayward, Kurt Mann, Jaemon Salmon and Josh Curran produce such a constant, rolling threat and such a constant ability to ball-play, that the Bulldogs could camp themselves up on the advantage line with numerous fast-moving parts, and largely jettison the long-shift plays that are everywhere you look in the modern game.
Lachlan Galvin trains with Canterbury at Belmore.Credit:Canterbury Bulldogs
Galvin could end up defending like “Allan Langer, Ricky Stuart and Greg Alexander used to” Fittler says - somewhat out of the way, saved for attacking duties and until his 190-centimetre frame fills out.
First though, Ciraldo is working out where the Tiger-turned-Bulldog fits into his 17 against Parramatta next Monday.
No call will be made until the coach has seen Galvin train alongside his new teammates this week, but jettisoning the more-than serviceable Toby Sexton as game-managing No.7 would be a hell of a call.
Sexton will eventually make way and land a deal somewhere in the NRL next season.
Introducing Galvin off the bench alongside Hayward against the Eels is the safest play, seemingly without the same undersized issues that playing two utilities would do at other clubs. What’s one more utility to a Canterbury side that thrives on them?
As for Galvin’s halfback hopes, Andrew and Matty Johns are among those that don’t see it. Cooper Cronk - a utility turned champion No.7 himself through hard work and smarts - has his doubts as well.
What the teen tyro does have is a pure halfback’s sheer want to be involved in the game.
Throughout his 18 months of first-grade, Galvin has averaged around 52 touches per game, a level of involvement that leads all five-eighths in that period and trails only a few on-ball halfbacks like Nathan Cleary, Isaiya Katoa and Nicho Hynes.
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Of playmakers genuinely taking on the defence in a statistic the NRL terms ‘line-engaged runs’, only Katoa has done so more often than Galvin this year.
His base-level play-making temperament appeals to coaches just as much as his rare skill and ability.
It doesn’t change the concern that the Bulldogs risk running without direction. Guiding Canterbury around the paddock was a role Burton struggled with when he played halfback, while this is Sexton’s greatest asset.
Hayward might offer another answer as well given his prowess when stepping into the halves this season, most notably in stirring wins over Cronulla at Shark Park and the Raiders in Canberra.
How Galvin fits in here, now, down the line and even in Fittler’s bigger picture, makes the teenager the NRL’s most compelling story once again.
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Tucker
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Of course that’s the case - he was 18 years old with zero senior footy experience.
GNR4LIFE
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Not many leaders at 18.
hank37w
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Hope you've got a really good bull bar, wouldn't want to do any damage to your car, just maximum damage to the piece of garbage.
Odessa
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And now has a massive ego
Tucker
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I’d say he had that already.
Guys , we just do our talking on the field ! When they upgrade LO and build a new toilet block the men’s can be the Glenn Morrison , and the Women’s can be the Lachlan Galvin .
We have a new villain . Hopefully the players feel the same level of betrayal as we do .we know Latu and Mason want to sttick around . Mason was the most talented 6 according to his Aus schoolboys coach . In his age group . Galvin was just the star of the last tournament .
And we all know Latu was the chosen one for his agre group the one above and the one below .
So we have the talent . And most importantly they want to play for the club.
We need to get some steel and desire into the jersey . We need some mongrel . Either at 13 or prop only with May . A hetherington type / maybe even both would go alright .
I don’t think we need talent . If we were an ice hockey team I’d be looking for the dirtiest goon you could find . Someone to rally behind . As we can’t play like that obviously , we need to find someone like that . I dunno where they are .
Because I feel this team has all the talent it needs . They need belief and a fire in thier belly !
We have a new villain . Hopefully the players feel the same level of betrayal as we do .we know Latu and Mason want to sttick around . Mason was the most talented 6 according to his Aus schoolboys coach . In his age group . Galvin was just the star of the last tournament .
And we all know Latu was the chosen one for his agre group the one above and the one below .
So we have the talent . And most importantly they want to play for the club.
We need to get some steel and desire into the jersey . We need some mongrel . Either at 13 or prop only with May . A hetherington type / maybe even both would go alright .
I don’t think we need talent . If we were an ice hockey team I’d be looking for the dirtiest goon you could find . Someone to rally behind . As we can’t play like that obviously , we need to find someone like that . I dunno where they are .
Because I feel this team has all the talent it needs . They need belief and a fire in thier belly !
liltiger
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Should be here in this podcast sorry can't remember what part, but the whole thing was a good listen. Around the 13.30 mark. But I mucked it up Richo told Weidler he's going to the Dogs as soon as the media reported Galvins issues with Benji, not the 2024 preseason like I said earlier, I must have mixed up two convos from 2 podcasts about Galvin. Sorry.
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hank37w
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Forgot to mention, don't slow down, speed up because if he gets thrown into the air you don't want his body landing on your roof.
A caved in roof is an absolute shit of a thing to repair.
Odessa
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Mason works for Canterbury I am quite sure with the junior forwards
Tired Tiger
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What a complete Arsehat ......
Lachlan Galvin understands if jilted Wests Tigers fans have “hatred for me” over his messy exit from the club and is prepared to begin his Bulldogs career in reserve grade or from the bench to avoid disrupting Canterbury’s premiership challenge.
Galvin spoke for the first time on Monday after finalising his protracted release from the Tigers, insisting that he had no issue with million-dollar halfback Jarome Luai, coach Benji Marshall or club officials.
He also dismissed the widely held belief that disillusionment with Marshall’s coaching contributed to his departure, but understands if Tigers fans don’t forgive him anytime soon.
“I understand where [Tigers fans] are coming from. I think they can have their opinion, and they can have their hatred and that against me. I understand that,” Galvin told Nine News, insisting as well that his controversial manager Isaac Moses’ issues with the Tigers and Marshall played little part in him moving on.
“This whole thing was my decision. I had told Isaac what I wanted, and he says ‘yes’. I’ve run this thing, I’ve backed myself, and I’m a pretty confident kid in that way. I’ve chosen what I’ve wanted, and obviously we’ve got all this backlash from it, and I’ll take that on the chin because it’s something I’ve driven.”
The 19-year-old declined to go into allegations of bullying during his time at the Tigers, given the terms of his release to Belmore prevent him from doing so.
Lachlan Galvin and Jarome Luai didn’t last long as the Tigers halves.Credit:Steven Siewert
Luai and Tigers winger Sunia Turuva both made pointed social posts when Galvin’s contract saga exploded in mid-April. Despite that, the star five-eighth insisted he had not fallen out with Luai and other teammates over a decision “made in my best interests”.
As Bulldogs coach Cameron Ciraldo weighs up a club debut for the teen star against Parramatta - who also went hard for him to partner Mitchell Moses - Galvin backed Marshall’s handling of him as a young playmaker.
Galvin’s shift from Concord to Belmore has been the biggest story of the NRL season, and particularly galling for beleaguered Tigers fans given he had been positioned as the club’s future and pitched a $5.5 million, six-year extension accordingly.
He has instead taken up a Bulldogs deal worth around $2.5 million until the end of 2028, and said Marshall’s coaching did not cost the Tigers their most promising local junior in a decade.
Lachlan Galvin trains with the Bulldogs.Credit:Canterbury Bulldogs
“Benji was great to me, I’m so grateful for Benji giving me my debut,” Galvin said.
“It wasn’t coaching, it was more just developing, and that was all on me. I wanted a change, and I just felt a change would get me out of my comfort zone.”
Of a reported falling out with Luai, Galvin said: “Jarome [and I] got on fine. We probably weren’t going over each other’s houses, having sleepovers and that.
“People like to think that we never got on, but behind the scenes we were always talking and never got to a point where we hated or never spoke to each other.”
Ciraldo was instrumental in Canterbury trumping the Eels for Galvin’s signature, along with assistant Luke Vella, who coached Galvin at Westfields Sports High School and remains a trusted confidant.
Galvin was emphatic in his belief that he is an NRL-standard halfback, but said coach Cameron Ciraldo had not promised him the Bulldogs No.7 jersey occupied by off-contract halfback Toby Sexton.
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Despite being one of the best young halves in the game, Galvin’s signing has been met in some quarters with fears it could destabilise the ladder leaders, particularly given Sexton is expected to depart at season’s end and hooker Reed Mahoney has also been given permission to test the market early.
Galvin said he and Ciraldo had discussed the prospect of being eased into the Bulldogs set-up either against the Eels or in coming weeks, a prospect he has no issues with.
“I’ve already spoken to Ciro about that,” he said.
“We’ve had long talks about reserve grade and coming off the bench and I’m all for it. It’s whatever is best for that team.”
Lachlan Galvin understands if jilted Wests Tigers fans have “hatred for me” over his messy exit from the club and is prepared to begin his Bulldogs career in reserve grade or from the bench to avoid disrupting Canterbury’s premiership challenge.
Galvin spoke for the first time on Monday after finalising his protracted release from the Tigers, insisting that he had no issue with million-dollar halfback Jarome Luai, coach Benji Marshall or club officials.
He also dismissed the widely held belief that disillusionment with Marshall’s coaching contributed to his departure, but understands if Tigers fans don’t forgive him anytime soon.
“I understand where [Tigers fans] are coming from. I think they can have their opinion, and they can have their hatred and that against me. I understand that,” Galvin told Nine News, insisting as well that his controversial manager Isaac Moses’ issues with the Tigers and Marshall played little part in him moving on.
“This whole thing was my decision. I had told Isaac what I wanted, and he says ‘yes’. I’ve run this thing, I’ve backed myself, and I’m a pretty confident kid in that way. I’ve chosen what I’ve wanted, and obviously we’ve got all this backlash from it, and I’ll take that on the chin because it’s something I’ve driven.”
The 19-year-old declined to go into allegations of bullying during his time at the Tigers, given the terms of his release to Belmore prevent him from doing so.
Lachlan Galvin and Jarome Luai didn’t last long as the Tigers halves.Credit:Steven Siewert
Luai and Tigers winger Sunia Turuva both made pointed social posts when Galvin’s contract saga exploded in mid-April. Despite that, the star five-eighth insisted he had not fallen out with Luai and other teammates over a decision “made in my best interests”.
As Bulldogs coach Cameron Ciraldo weighs up a club debut for the teen star against Parramatta - who also went hard for him to partner Mitchell Moses - Galvin backed Marshall’s handling of him as a young playmaker.
Galvin’s shift from Concord to Belmore has been the biggest story of the NRL season, and particularly galling for beleaguered Tigers fans given he had been positioned as the club’s future and pitched a $5.5 million, six-year extension accordingly.
He has instead taken up a Bulldogs deal worth around $2.5 million until the end of 2028, and said Marshall’s coaching did not cost the Tigers their most promising local junior in a decade.
Lachlan Galvin trains with the Bulldogs.Credit:Canterbury Bulldogs
“Benji was great to me, I’m so grateful for Benji giving me my debut,” Galvin said.
“It wasn’t coaching, it was more just developing, and that was all on me. I wanted a change, and I just felt a change would get me out of my comfort zone.”
Of a reported falling out with Luai, Galvin said: “Jarome [and I] got on fine. We probably weren’t going over each other’s houses, having sleepovers and that.
“People like to think that we never got on, but behind the scenes we were always talking and never got to a point where we hated or never spoke to each other.”
Ciraldo was instrumental in Canterbury trumping the Eels for Galvin’s signature, along with assistant Luke Vella, who coached Galvin at Westfields Sports High School and remains a trusted confidant.
Galvin was emphatic in his belief that he is an NRL-standard halfback, but said coach Cameron Ciraldo had not promised him the Bulldogs No.7 jersey occupied by off-contract halfback Toby Sexton.
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Despite being one of the best young halves in the game, Galvin’s signing has been met in some quarters with fears it could destabilise the ladder leaders, particularly given Sexton is expected to depart at season’s end and hooker Reed Mahoney has also been given permission to test the market early.
Galvin said he and Ciraldo had discussed the prospect of being eased into the Bulldogs set-up either against the Eels or in coming weeks, a prospect he has no issues with.
“I’ve already spoken to Ciro about that,” he said.
“We’ve had long talks about reserve grade and coming off the bench and I’m all for it. It’s whatever is best for that team.”
BAGNF05
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Lachlan taking about getting early ball to the best player in the world really highlights how we are pretty weak in the centres, and Toa has been serviceable.
