Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Kaito]

If I was wrong stating Anasta as Galvin's manager I apologise, it was in an article I recently read in only the last few days, till then I previously thought it was Moses,
Help me out, who is his manager.

Moses is his manager. Braith asked on nrl360 who his manager was (as if he didn't know), that's where you might have gotten your wires crossed. There's a lot of hyperbole & emotional hypochondria surrounding players leaving from the usual suspects on here. Rd.1 man, enjoy the ride

 

[Dennisspicer1]

No need to apologise. Isaac Moses is his manager...the worst manager a club would want to deal with when trying to resign one of their star players. That bloke just wrecks clubs.

You can just see it coming, we are going to be SHAFTED AGAIN.

 

[Tiger Stripes]

Yes them bastards have more ex- tigers than any other club , I think u could be on the money there

Manly have a running 5/8!
If and when DCE retires they need a 1/2.
Galvin, with good coaching, is that half.

 

[supercoach]

Don’t get the Parra and Galvin links.

If he leaves it’s to win football games and I think parra are further behind than us.

I’m more worried about Manly sniffing around post DCE retirement tbh.

The Issac Moses Sea Eagles

 

[weststigers]

You can just see it coming, we are going to be SHAFTED AGAIN.

Haha come on Dennis. Be positive.

I'll say this, Latu is getting the slow and steady introduction to first grade that Galvin should have been afforded. He will benefit greatly from that.

If we lose Galvin, Latu will be a fine replacement.

 

[Lestronge]

Haha come on Dennis. Be positive.

I'll say this, Latu is getting the slow and steady introduction to first grade that Galvin should have been afforded. He will benefit greatly from that.

If we lose Galvin, Latu will be a fine replacement.

My hot take is Latu will prove to be the better half moving forward , and whoever pays Galvin will have paid 1.5mil for a lock . Which is fine , if his trajectory remains the same , but yea. If that’s us … well all good .
But im less convinced about him as a half , at his current body weight and strength .
When he bulks out in 2-3 years he will be a massive handful . Just I don’t think as a half .

 

[rihannafan1]

The Issac Moses Sea Eagles

That's why they signed Onitoni Large.

 

[jrtiger]

That's why they signed Onitoni Large.

Onitoni's managed by Apex, not Moses and Cove. it was the relationship with McDonnell that got him and Ashton to Manly.

the rumours about Galvin to Manly have been there since before he made his debut. they will get even louder as November approaches. we need Latu to be playing 80 minutes at 5/8 each week in Cup in preparation for what's to come. we've been here before.

 

[tigertragic]

My hot take is Latu will prove to be the better half moving forward , and whoever pays Galvin will have paid 1.5mil for a lock . Which is fine , if his trajectory remains the same , but yea. If that’s us … well all good .
But im less convinced about him as a half , at his current body weight and strength .
When he bulks out in 2-3 years he will be a massive handful . Just I don’t think as a half .

Yep fully agree
Not many forwards on that type of money
And how effective would Galvin be if he has to do 40 tackles in the middle every week
Yeo types are a rarity

 

[weststigers]

My hot take is Latu will prove to be the better half moving forward , and whoever pays Galvin will have paid 1.5mil for a lock . Which is fine , if his trajectory remains the same , but yea. If that’s us … well all good .
But im less convinced about him as a half , at his current body weight and strength .
When he bulks out in 2-3 years he will be a massive handful . Just I don’t think as a half .

There has to be a limit on the bucks, because we have another 29 spots to fill after him. No use taking up all the cap space and not having any talent to play with.

We had Galvin all last year, but it didn't win us many games. There's 16 other guys out there.

Newcastle have done it with Ponga...a one man team. Not what we need.

If a club pays a million, good luck to them, but we know that money buys a top shelf consistent and established rep player. I'd be happy to trade him for that and have Fainu playing in the halves. I'm not dirty on Galvin for the record, but in a salary cap era, it's a money vs output equation and Galvin still has a lot of development to do.

His father and management seem impatient to get the big bucks early in his career, but I fear we pay him that and have to wear the highs and lows of a developing player, then he ups and leaves as a finished product.

For that money, you can buy the finished product right now.

 

[cone]

Absolutely not. Barely on the ground and when he is he is a liability. Had one good year but the rest are average at best.

Not one player is take from the Eels apart from maybe Penisini.

Penisini, Lomax, Jack Williams and Hopgood

 

[liltiger]

Your head is in the clouds. We’ve already tried to re-sign him. His management will go to the market. Forget this “We need to be winning BS”. Club needs to start preparing Fainu.

I was optimistic GNR last year and thought you were just being too pessimistic in us keeping Galvin. Iv got to be honest I'm on your page now, of he wanted to stay he would have. Get Latu in now imo he's our future 5/8 anyway even if Galvin stays. Galvin is destined for a ball playing forward role, if he's not willing to commit with us, why should we commit to him.

 

[tylermax]

We may as well accept that we will loose one of them. Romey reckons that Latu is a gun, therefore if Galvin goes I don't believe that we will have gone backwards.

 

[upthetigers]

People acting like loyalty is the big driver here after Dylan Brown just signed an enormous deal to go to Newcastle & wither away his career.

Galvin is going to get offered a lot of money- and that will be the deciding factor. Be it the Tigers, Eels, Manly, PNG or whoever- the market for young halves was set by Sam Walker & Galvin is going to cash in on the hype.

As he should.

The bigger danger, instead of losing Galvin, is signing a player on too much money for what they offer. If there is a bidding war, as I expect there will be, the winner might not be the club that signs him for $13m over 10 years. (No- I know that was Brown's contract- I'm just using generalisations).

Brown came out and said he was worth $1M after his debut game. He was always going to be a mercenary.

 

[weststigers]

People acting like loyalty is the big driver here after Dylan Brown just signed an enormous deal to go to Newcastle & wither away his career.

Galvin is going to get offered a lot of money- and that will be the deciding factor. Be it the Tigers, Eels, Manly, PNG or whoever- the market for young halves was set by Sam Walker & Galvin is going to cash in on the hype.

As he should.

The bigger danger, instead of losing Galvin, is signing a player on too much money for what they offer. If there is a bidding war, as I expect there will be, the winner might not be the club that signs him for $13m over 10 years. (No- I know that was Brown's contract- I'm just using generalisations).

This is correct. It's the dot com boom all over again. Clubs that do this will be handcuffed to bad deals and very few will be able to point to examples of it working.

 

[Buttface]

Penisini, Lomax, Jack Williams and Hopgood

Hopgood.
Always plays above his contract value.
I know for a fact that he “hit it off” with Brad Arthur and that is why he signed with them. So how’s his relationship with Ryles?

 

[upthetigers]

I was optimistic GNR last year and thought you were just being too pessimistic in us keeping Galvin. Iv got to be honest I'm on your page now, if he wanted to stay he would have. Get Latu in now imo he's our future 5/8 anyway even if Galvin stays. Galvin is destined for a ball playing forward role, if he's not willing to commit with us, why should we commit to him.

Disagree. Rationally speaking, if I was Galvin I'd want to see how we go this season before committing to my future. I am buying less and less into the Galvin hype so I couldn't care less either way. If Luai doesn't take control of this team I am done as a supporter I've had enough.

 

[HowDugWT]

Of course I am a huge supporter of Galvin but im not overly angry if he leaves. If he leaves it will be because he wants to play for a winning team or more money which is a real shame for a young player to chase money and success. Tigers coming off 3 spoons we want players who will buy in and be apart of the rebuild if he doesnt want to be apart of it I kinda shrug and look at Latu.
Latu Fainu the extremely highly touted junior who was under high demand before the tigers got him. Had heaps more wraps on him then Galvin. If Latu didn't get that injury at the start of last year he would've started over Galvin and we wouldn't be having this conversation.
I leave it with a link and a timestamp of my favourite moment from last year.

Minute 2.15 for absolute beauty

 

[pawsandclaws1]

The pressure is building nicely at the Roosters.

MSN

 

[2041]

I've been saying for months that if the Tigers didn't get Galvin locked up before the start of the season he was as good as gone. Now it sounds like he never really engaged with even discussing an extension.

Whatever, it is what it is. It pisses me off that we don't seem to be able to retain any of our best young players - I mean, I know some are going to leave but I honestly can't think of the last time we had a genuinely coveted young player and they didn't sign elsewhere at the first opportunity or sooner (well, Tedesco was the second opportunity TBF but even that took a superhuman effort to stop him leaving... for Canberra, FFS). But c'est la vie.

What really irritates me is that the club must have known progress wasn't being made on an extension with Galvin, yet they still let Large go at least in part on the basis that he was stuck behind Galvin. There's a good chance this will end up being Papenhuysen all over again. If we're going to keep losing our young talent we have to maintain the queue coming through behind it, at least.