Speaker 1: Welcome to three sixty Rugby League from every angle, joining
Speaker 1: me the great Good and tell Us Spring, the Generator,
Speaker 1: Australian Poor Crawley and Andrew Webster.
Speaker 2: Rugby League just continues to deliver.
Speaker 1: There is never a dull moment. We've got a huge
Speaker 1: shot on tonight, Gordy.
Speaker 2: That will start with this.
Speaker 1: Jerome Lewy firing shots on social media after Lachlan Galvin
Speaker 1: has been dropped Fortish week's game.
Speaker 3: What do we make it for Gordy?
Speaker 4: I like it, you know. I think that if I
Speaker 4: was playing with the guy, and I did. I played
Speaker 4: with Justin Hodges when he signed with the Risses. I
Speaker 4: remember the one that probably cut me the deepest was
Speaker 4: when Wendell left us after promising that he was going
Speaker 4: to stay in two thousand and went to rugby union.
Speaker 4: There's no doubt that you get gutted. You get this team,
Speaker 4: you get this brotherhood in a side. And I think
Speaker 4: where the Tigers are and they're building, and Jerome Lewi
Speaker 4: left a very successful club to come and hop out
Speaker 4: one of them, I'd feel I'd probably feel the same
Speaker 4: as him.
Speaker 1: What did you think of this Instagram post from Jerome
Speaker 1: Lewi Do you think it's good leadership.
Speaker 2: Do you like it?
Speaker 5: It shows how disappointed he is, doesn't it. It shows how
Speaker 5: obviously disappointed the team is because you know, they beat
Speaker 5: the Knights on the weekend, the Tigers who have had
Speaker 5: so much bad luck in recent years, and you know,
Speaker 5: three wooden spoons in a row, they're finally back in
Speaker 5: the top eight.
Speaker 6: And then this explodes.
Speaker 3: I love Jerome in a game where so many players
Speaker 3: are too scared to be themselves, he's undershamably himself. He
Speaker 3: was one of the members of the leadership group that
Speaker 3: went to Benji Marshall this morning and said we don't
Speaker 3: want Lochland Galvin in this team. And Jerome's you know,
Speaker 3: he's done it before he's done After origins, he says
Speaker 3: what he thinks on social media and that's just another
Speaker 3: way of him saying that we're not going to put
Speaker 3: up with Lachland Galvin deciding not to play well.
Speaker 4: He knows what wins, right, coming from a very successful
Speaker 4: organization in Penrith, he knows everybody's got to buy in.
Speaker 1: And right has he four premierships in a row comes
Speaker 1: to the club, shows great leadership, has made an immediate
Speaker 1: impact and He's just pretty much said, if you don't
Speaker 1: want to be a part of this team, see you later,
Speaker 1: work work your way back in. Do we all agree
Speaker 1: with Jerome NOI, then we're all happy.
Speaker 2: With with.
Speaker 3: Gordy. Would you have ever put a Kendrick Lamarth song
Speaker 3: on your Insta store?
Speaker 4: It wasn't around maybe eminem and my come don't kill
Speaker 4: my ch don't kill my Instagram.
Speaker 2: Every week.
Speaker 7: This is a new way that they communicate with each other.
Speaker 4: So, you know, back in the day it was us,
Speaker 4: it was face to face, it was you know, having
Speaker 4: a run in at a bar having a beer and
Speaker 4: there was alcohol involved or whatever. So this is now
Speaker 4: he's sitting at home and this is the way that
Speaker 4: they communicate.
Speaker 5: It highlights the furnace that Lachlan Galvin now sits in though,
Speaker 5: doesn't it because, as you said, when you had teammates
Speaker 5: that made a decision to leave the club, you burnt
Speaker 5: for the whole season. Yeah, And this is the situation
Speaker 5: that a nine year old kid has now walked into.
Speaker 1: We're going to dive a lot deeper into this situation
Speaker 1: very soon, and we've got Stephen Crichton coming up very
Speaker 1: soon as good mates with Jerome wife, So we might
Speaker 1: ask him about that a little later.
Speaker 2: But Lockie Galvin has released a statement. Let's have a
Speaker 2: look at it. Bear with me, this goes for a while.
Speaker 1: It was quite a lengthy statement from him and his
Speaker 1: father as well. I totally understand my decision will frustrate
Speaker 1: many West Tigers fans, but please know that it wasn't
Speaker 1: an easy call to make. It's a decision that I
Speaker 1: have discussed that length with my parents' closest friends and family.
Speaker 1: The biggest reason why I made this call now is
Speaker 1: so that the West Tigers have enough time to plan
Speaker 1: their roster without me in the future. That's the absolute
Speaker 1: truth of it. Any suggestion that I already have a
Speaker 1: deal done at another club for twenty twenty seven is
Speaker 1: simply not true.
Speaker 2: And then he goes on to say, I just feel that.
Speaker 1: As I'm move into an important period of my development
Speaker 1: as a half, that I continue to build my game
Speaker 1: at a different club.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: I know this might be hard for some people to understand,
Speaker 1: but I make this decision in the best interests of
Speaker 1: my career. Benji has made a call today to leave
Speaker 1: me out of the NFL squad, and of course I'd
Speaker 1: love to be out there with the boys, but that's
Speaker 1: his decision as the head coach, which I have to accept.
Speaker 1: Benji said, I was playing in New South Wales Cup
Speaker 1: this weekend. I said that whatever you think is best
Speaker 1: for the team, I'm okay with very interesting guys. This
Speaker 1: statement from Lockey Galvin a turn of events over the
Speaker 1: past twenty four to forty eight hours. Sorry, I don't
Speaker 1: think anyone saw this coming right now, and it has
Speaker 1: set the rugby league world a light.
Speaker 3: Blae the West Tigers. I don't think it is. I
Speaker 3: think it's actually if I'm a West Tigers fan, I'd
Speaker 3: see the silver lining in it, and it said my
Speaker 3: club is strong than it's ever been and we're not
Speaker 3: going to be told what to do or dictated to
Speaker 3: by the biggest player agent in the game. That's exactly
Speaker 3: what it is. Because Isaac Moses does this a clubs
Speaker 3: and look, I'm not gonna I should make it very
Speaker 3: clear because everyone thinks that, you know, journos are aligned
Speaker 3: to certain player managers. I'm aligned to none. I dare
Speaker 3: say you're the same. Crawls. I haven't spoken Isaac Moses
Speaker 3: in five years, so nothing I say tonight is going
Speaker 3: to be parroting what he's had to say. But Isaac
Speaker 3: Moses is a very controlling manager who gets his claws
Speaker 3: in the clubs. He's got them various ones already, mainly
Speaker 3: being one and West Tigers just said we're not going
Speaker 3: to be dictated to So Shane Richardson was always going
Speaker 3: to have an offer on the table of around. The
Speaker 3: deal was about six million dollars as we have we've
Speaker 3: read in the last couple of days. But Shane Richardson
Speaker 3: knew if he was prepared to go to November one
Speaker 3: to test the market, that he was not going to
Speaker 3: be at the West Tigers. So instead of you know,
Speaker 3: stuffing around and going on all year about whether he
Speaker 3: was going to be here or not and then missing
Speaker 3: out on the market, because that's why the market is now,
Speaker 3: you've got to work a year and a half to two,
Speaker 3: he's in advance. The West Tigers have shown strength that
Speaker 3: they haven't had for a very long time.
Speaker 6: I agree.
Speaker 1: I think it's standing strong and I think it's a
Speaker 1: real shifting moment for the West Tigers.
Speaker 7: This regardless leadership.
Speaker 3: And look at the response to the players. So they
Speaker 3: were going to pick him as of last night. Shane
Speaker 3: Richardson and Benji Marshall were of the opinion that they
Speaker 3: were going to pick him, and it was the senior
Speaker 3: players that fronted Benji this morning and said we're not
Speaker 3: going to We're not going to let him, we don't
Speaker 3: want to play with him. And then and then, and then,
Speaker 3: and then Benji Marshall told Lachlan Galvin to address the
Speaker 3: playing group. He did, and apparently they had to call
Speaker 3: an end to it because they weren't copping what was
Speaker 3: coming out of his mouth. Probably they're not going to
Speaker 3: cop that statement.
Speaker 2: Wow, is that how it went down?
Speaker 3: One hundred?
Speaker 7: That statement looks like it would be my homework these days.
Speaker 7: Just still lay on.
Speaker 5: Oh I am it's hard to comprehend how a nine
Speaker 5: a year old rights that. But you speak about the
Speaker 5: leadership of the West Tigers, no question in the world.
Speaker 5: What they've done so far has been strong. I want
Speaker 5: to see it continue. I really hope Richo stands on
Speaker 5: his digs here and he makes a decision to keep
Speaker 5: Lochlan Galvin at that club until the end of his contract.
Speaker 3: What is he on?
Speaker 6: Three fifty three fifty?
Speaker 5: Make him play out, make him play out the next
Speaker 5: two years don't. Don't give another club a leg up,
Speaker 5: make him play out, and you know what, you don't.
Speaker 5: You don't have to You don't have to push him
Speaker 5: into him to second grade for the whole time.
Speaker 6: But when he gets to the.
Speaker 5: Point where the leadership group in that team start to
Speaker 5: trust him again, then you do what's best for the club. Cordy,
Speaker 5: I'll give you an example. You spoke about Wayne with
Speaker 5: Justin Hodges many years ago. I'll give you another example.
Speaker 5: When Anthony Milford wanted to go to the Broncos and
Speaker 5: he wanted out immediately. The Raiders refuse to let him go, right,
Speaker 5: They refuse to let him go, and they said, you're
Speaker 5: going to stay here. Under no circumstances are you leaving
Speaker 5: the club? Milford went back.
Speaker 3: You know what he did.
Speaker 5: He won the player of the year that year, twenty fourteen,
Speaker 5: he won the Raiders Player of the Year. Galvin has
Speaker 5: an opportunity to come back from this and do what's right.
Speaker 4: Hey, listen, and then all of us are behind the
Speaker 4: Tigers on this decision. But the game, and when I
Speaker 4: mean the game, I mean all the other clubs, because
Speaker 4: it's going to happen to you at some stage and
Speaker 4: I think the NRL Peter Velandis and Andrew Abdot like
Speaker 4: they've got to stand behind them.
Speaker 2: So he's already been deregistered.
Speaker 7: Though this agentister.
Speaker 4: Got a million dollar player, right, it's three fifty time,
Speaker 4: So go start to go fund me because I'd happy
Speaker 4: to be put in and say just no, no, seriously.
Speaker 7: So the kids need to learn a listen.
Speaker 4: We don't like, we can't just keep on having this
Speaker 4: happened to the Week of Clubs has happened.
Speaker 5: There isn't There is an overwhelming feeling out there amongst
Speaker 5: other clubs that they hope the Tigers do this right now.
Speaker 6: And you know what, they would chip in so you
Speaker 6: release it.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't release it, not unless they can leverage it
Speaker 3: for something better. But I don't know how that's that's
Speaker 3: really going to work.
Speaker 1: I don't know how that's going to It's not like
Speaker 1: a lot of people are saying, ready was one of them?
Speaker 2: Let him go? You know?
Speaker 1: But but this reeks reeks of deliberate disruption. So this
Speaker 1: is a plan, right, if you read between the lines,
Speaker 1: it's a plan from the camp to disrupt, and that's
Speaker 1: what they've got.
Speaker 2: And now they get released early.
Speaker 1: They give big money at a premier club next year
Speaker 1: and so on and so on. Ready said he won't
Speaker 1: get more money. He will get more money.
Speaker 2: This is about money.
Speaker 3: Did you Ready say last night he wouldn't get more
Speaker 3: than three hundred No?
Speaker 7: No, no, no, no, I think.
Speaker 2: Upgrade.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and plus he said the decision wasn't about money,
Speaker 4: it's about development.
Speaker 2: But development. Let's talk about development development.
Speaker 1: I think, how is he not going to develop under
Speaker 1: Benji Marshall West Tigers?
Speaker 2: Great? Right, that's one.
Speaker 1: They put Jerome Lew next to him, who's just won
Speaker 1: four premierships, next to Nathan Cleary.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Two, you've got happy chorus out at nine who's won
Speaker 1: a premier ship one of the premier lines in the competition.
Speaker 4: To silver, who's number nine that he played all of
Speaker 4: his red football with.
Speaker 1: Tell me how he's not going to develop in those
Speaker 1: with those people around him? Now the reports Galvin had
Speaker 1: a list of grievance, grievance and sorry around the club
Speaker 1: and Benji and he went to Shane Ridges and I
Speaker 1: believe with Mos did not knock Galvin.
Speaker 3: So he went he went to him when he had
Speaker 3: a list, I think with seven points and the way
Speaker 3: it's been explained to me. Isaac got through a couple
Speaker 3: about Benji and Rich. I said, I don't want to
Speaker 3: hear it. Mate, that's enough.
Speaker 2: Was it the manager or was it gal This.
Speaker 3: Is the thing. So when when when I want to
Speaker 3: wait to hear when Lachlan Galvin does his you know,
Speaker 3: lightweight interview with some journo who's close to Isaac Moses,
Speaker 3: and when he sits there on to explain, explain exactly,
Speaker 3: explain exactly what your grievance is with with with Benji Marshall,
Speaker 3: and then and then ask if it's real, and then
Speaker 3: maybe ask the question is it got anything to do
Speaker 3: with the fact that your player manager, Isaac Moses doesn't
Speaker 3: like Benji Marshall. Is that might be getting a little
Speaker 3: bit Lockie Gavin is going.
Speaker 1: To be seek with this, right because a lot of
Speaker 1: people out there wouldn't know this, right, So apparently Moses
Speaker 1: and Benjie don't get along.
Speaker 2: Is that true?
Speaker 3: Or that's that's what you hear?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 7: And when did that start?
Speaker 3: That also depends on who you talk to. But I
Speaker 3: don't think the way that Klemmor and Bateman left the club.
Speaker 3: Please the Moses can this. But I don't want to
Speaker 3: be like, I want to say this about Isaac, right, Isaac.
Speaker 3: You know, Isaac is renowned as the biggest manager in
Speaker 3: the in the in the game. He's also was renowned
Speaker 3: as one of the most difficult to deal with. There's
Speaker 3: been plenty in terms of numbers or in terms of
Speaker 3: the players or whatever, but Isaac, in many ways it's
Speaker 3: just is just working within the rules. This is how
Speaker 3: the system is.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: The system is set up that you have to work
Speaker 3: so far in advance in terms of your roster, and
Speaker 3: it puts all the power into the hands of the
Speaker 3: player managers and the NRL and the RLP. I been
Speaker 3: talking about fixing this and getting rid of that power
Speaker 3: balance for years, for years.
Speaker 7: Stink.
Speaker 5: Where it really stinks is Lachland Galvin is entitled to
Speaker 5: think another club may give him a better shot at
Speaker 5: making the most of his career. But where it stinks
Speaker 5: is that all the major news outlets at the moment
Speaker 5: are reporting the same angle of the story that Benji
Speaker 5: Marshall is the problem. Benji Marshall is not the coach.
Speaker 5: It is so unfair because it's not just a stain
Speaker 5: on Benji. It's a stain on the Tigers. It's a
Speaker 5: stain on the club that has brought this fellow through.
Speaker 5: When Paramatta didn't see a future in Lachland Galvin, the
Speaker 5: West Tigers did and they've spent years getting him to
Speaker 5: this stage. They gave him an opportunity to come and
Speaker 5: play first grade last year.
Speaker 6: He really has stood up.
Speaker 5: He's an obvious talent, but it's just it's not fair
Speaker 5: and in years to come he'll regret what he's done.
Speaker 6: Me this.
Speaker 1: How does a nine year old kid who has just
Speaker 1: come into first grade and has only had the one
Speaker 1: coach in Benji Marshall, and has given him this opportunity,
Speaker 1: How does who does he compare Benji Marshall to who
Speaker 1: is he played underneath and has coached him to tell
Speaker 1: him that he's not developing or there's a better coach out.
Speaker 1: I'm sure I've seen him do an interview.
Speaker 7: He goes.
Speaker 4: Benji jumps in the drills and he kills it like
Speaker 4: he's better than us. He throws cut out bulls, he
Speaker 4: sets up more.
Speaker 5: Tri old in the world, starts compiling a dossier against
Speaker 5: your coach.
Speaker 7: Come up with that.
Speaker 3: It's only it's only he's only been his coach for
Speaker 3: a year and you know, and at that time that's right,
Speaker 3: that's right. And I just find it so weird at
Speaker 3: the time when the club's on this sort of trajectory
Speaker 3: like why now, why have you.
Speaker 7: Decided we hang and lockie out when we shouldn't be
Speaker 7: hanging Lucky.
Speaker 3: That's the thing that's.
Speaker 4: DC got hung out, the dry Luke Brooks, the poor
Speaker 4: bugger right, And to me this smells a bit like
Speaker 4: Luke Brooks. Don't know where Lucky Galvin's gonna go. He's
Speaker 4: going to have this Luke Brooks where he's just going.
Speaker 6: To get judged.
Speaker 5: There's a part of me, Gordon that feels really sorry
Speaker 5: for this fellow because he's nineteen and he's paying good money.
Speaker 5: But what I consider bad advice.
Speaker 4: I said, but he's got his father and the father
Speaker 4: and some love should be a stronger bond than anything,
Speaker 4: and his father's in honest, he.
Speaker 5: Does know what his father's background is. You don't know
Speaker 5: how much experience he's had dealing with this. Again, you
Speaker 5: go back to the fact you employ a manager to
Speaker 5: do the right thing by you.
Speaker 7: You must you.
Speaker 4: Must know how ben Hunt got affected by the money take.
Speaker 4: You must know how Ash Taylor, a young kid got
Speaker 4: affected by the money. Take you look at DCE right
Speaker 4: now at thirty seven, how it's affected him.
Speaker 1: You must look at all those situations. DC was affected
Speaker 1: by the lack of I think urgency to sign him
Speaker 1: and put a deal in front of him. It wasn't
Speaker 1: so much the money. But then it's a medium noise.
Speaker 5: Now this goes beyond money, because even the Tigers were
Speaker 5: willing to give him a million dollars a year.
Speaker 6: You know, money's not the issue here. It goes beyond
Speaker 6: the money.
Speaker 1: The issue I've got it goes to bad I said
Speaker 1: it last night. If i'm his agent, right, I'm saying
Speaker 1: that's an amazing offer, thank you for the offer. But
Speaker 1: the mindset of my player right now is focused on
Speaker 1: this week's next week and the week after this game
Speaker 1: and trying to get us to the Semis and win
Speaker 1: a competition or get close to whatever.
Speaker 2: Do our best.
Speaker 1: At the end of the year, will reassess and reevaluate
Speaker 1: it and we'll talk to you then.
Speaker 2: That would have been my response.
Speaker 3: Are you leaving six million on the table unless you've
Speaker 3: got a pretty strong idea of where you're going to
Speaker 3: go next?
Speaker 2: You said it not me.
Speaker 3: Well I'm saying a baby.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well there it is.
Speaker 3: Let's be honest, play off me for the rest of
Speaker 3: the show. Bra I've said I.
Speaker 2: Love having you and you're in a movie. Do you
Speaker 2: like this? Okay, let's get back on track. Okay, whether
Speaker 2: it's true or not.
Speaker 1: With this impact not only the Tigers, but Benji Marshall,
Speaker 1: he's coaching, he's a.
Speaker 2: Bit need to get players to the club.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I think the way they've fallen behind him,
Speaker 3: it's been it's a as I said, in a terrible situation.
Speaker 3: That's the silver lining for the Tiger.
Speaker 5: You know, though, Webby, the one thing that could derail
Speaker 5: the Tigers is the fact that Lachlan Galvin has been
Speaker 5: playing very good football. Yes, and if it gets to
Speaker 5: the stage where they don't pick him from here on
Speaker 5: in and the Tigers season goes from being seventh on
Speaker 5: the table to falling out of playoff contention, that does
Speaker 5: affect Benji.
Speaker 7: Build a bit more than that.
Speaker 4: I reckon with Lil Happy and the guys around, they've
Speaker 4: got a couple of young halfs.
Speaker 6: I think we all agree.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 5: At the end of last year, after what happened, the
Speaker 5: Tigers picked up their third wooden spurn.
Speaker 6: They needed a better season. Benji needed a better season.
Speaker 5: It certainly started that way, and it's just a shame
Speaker 5: this is now to Rabic it has look, I hope
Speaker 5: it doesn't. And I think they've got enough resources there
Speaker 5: with other players like Dewey and young Latufeinhu down.
Speaker 6: The track to pull themselves out of this.
Speaker 5: But look, there's no question in the world Benji's in
Speaker 5: a worse position right now than he was last week.
Speaker 3: Someone will come on the like, let me ask you, guys,
Speaker 3: is he worth that money?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 3: I see a great player, but I don't. I don't
Speaker 3: know if is that at a nineteen like I don't
Speaker 3: see him as an.
Speaker 5: Okay, the market says he is Webby.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no.
Speaker 5: Jolen Brown just signed a contract at one point three
Speaker 5: million dollars.
Speaker 7: Season, but he's no.
Speaker 4: No, it's not whether Look, the players can get what
Speaker 4: they want, is he worth it?
Speaker 2: We'll get there a bit further on the track. Let's
Speaker 2: let's just focus more zero in on this. The West Tigers.
Speaker 1: Will they dig their heels in here? And if they do,
Speaker 1: will it cost them a chance of making the finals?
Speaker 6: I think they have to dig their heels in here.
Speaker 5: I think I think long term, what you can't do,
Speaker 5: and we've seen this previously. You can't come out and
Speaker 5: say we're going to banish him to reserve grade for
Speaker 5: the rest of this year and next year because what
Speaker 5: will happen. No, you can't go it because the Players
Speaker 5: Union will get their backs up and they'll say that
Speaker 5: you can't do that to someone's career.
Speaker 7: But you can.
Speaker 6: You can certainly put him back there subject shoe? Can
Speaker 6: we So every play that doesn't get picked.
Speaker 4: For trust, if you don't get picked for Australia Queens,
Speaker 4: then happened.
Speaker 7: But I've played good, I've got six men of the matches.
Speaker 7: I should be in that team.
Speaker 5: No, I still think subject the Tigers would do the
Speaker 5: right thing by themselves if they kept locking in their system,
Speaker 5: and who knows where it may lead. If he stays
Speaker 5: in reserve grade for the next year and a half,
Speaker 5: so be it. But you've still got that option there
Speaker 5: to bring him up.
Speaker 7: And was the best player on the field in the
Speaker 7: Grand Final? Did he win the Clive Churchill? There you go?
Speaker 3: No, I you know what I reckon certain a subjective.
Speaker 3: So I've killed brains since I can't remember you know
Speaker 3: what I reckon that I just wanted. I reckon they'll
Speaker 3: make a statement with by by dropping him too to
Speaker 3: reserve grade and that in time, whether I don't think
Speaker 3: it will be in the next couple of weeks, but
Speaker 3: I think it'll be maybe in the next month or so.
Speaker 3: In time he will come back into the team.
Speaker 1: I think you talk about Isaac Moses and does your
Speaker 1: risk putting another club offside? And has his reputation or
Speaker 1: will it take be hit here? Reputation I mean, does
Speaker 1: he have one?
Speaker 3: But like this to me, Lachlan Galvin's reputation.
Speaker 2: The manager because you said it earlier, I'm coming back
Speaker 2: to you because reputations that run with it.
Speaker 1: Baby, you said exactly, he said run with you said
Speaker 1: he's had trouble dealing with doesn't talk.
Speaker 2: Gus didn't talk to him. But we'll get to that later.
Speaker 3: Because this is the thing, though, Brave, at the end
Speaker 3: of the day, all these they have to deal they
Speaker 3: have to deal with each other, but the players hold
Speaker 3: the player, managers hold the whip hand.
Speaker 6: They really deal with them until they have to do it,
Speaker 6: until they have to.
Speaker 3: They all bag each other behind each other's backs, but
Speaker 3: they all have to do business with each other. That's
Speaker 3: because it's like and in some ways this is the
Speaker 3: beauty of the game, because this is like so ruthless.
Speaker 3: Everyone nice each other in the back, but they all
Speaker 3: get onto with each other because they have.
Speaker 2: Your fans on the side of you and buss both
Speaker 2: of you. Is that Nick or Isaac or someone all?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 2: Now, Gas School?
Speaker 1: This is I found this very interesting, the Gas School
Speaker 1: situation at the moment.
Speaker 2: And I want to take a look at a few
Speaker 2: of his comments that.
Speaker 1: He's made of late about Lachlan Galvin, and I'll explain
Speaker 1: why I think he's the best teenage footballer I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: I think what he's doing is absolutely extraordinary. Lochlan Galvin
Speaker 1: will earn more money out of rugby League than any
Speaker 1: other player in the history. In the future, whoever has
Speaker 1: Lochlan Galvin in their side will.
Speaker 2: Be winning premierships. Now why I find this so.
Speaker 3: Interesting, I reckon Gus believes all of.
Speaker 2: That is the middle one where he's we'll get to it.
Speaker 1: We get to it where he says, I think that
Speaker 1: he's the best teenage footballer I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: Now, Gus Schould, I say on this show so many times.
Speaker 1: If he's not the brightest mind in our than who
Speaker 1: is he's in the top two or three. I think
Speaker 1: he's doing an incredible job at the Bulldogs, and he
Speaker 1: did at Penrith, and I respect him as much as
Speaker 1: anyone in our game and his opinion, but this one
Speaker 1: I just can't align with that he's the best teenager
Speaker 1: that he's ever seen. Now, when I think of teenagers
Speaker 1: in our game, you think of Brad Clyde, Lourie Day, Sonny,
Speaker 1: Bill Williams, J T, Jared Haynes, Calem Bonger, Brad Fittler,
Speaker 1: Nathan Clear Like I could go, I could probably name
Speaker 1: I could name thirty or forty who I've got ahead
Speaker 1: of where I see Lochlan Galvin right now. So I
Speaker 1: find it intriguing that this praise from Gas I find
Speaker 1: it out the top.
Speaker 2: What do you both seeking? Am I ever reading?
Speaker 7: This?
Speaker 5: Must be faired income Here he's making a pitch. He's
Speaker 5: making a pitch for a player. You're not allowed to
Speaker 5: You're not allowed to privately go and court a player,
Speaker 5: but obviously publicly you can because break you make complete sense.
Speaker 5: Brad Clyde was winning competitions when he was eighteen playing
Speaker 5: for his coming Laurie Daly, also Brad Fitler. These sort
Speaker 5: of guys that Gusk goes back to the eighties when
Speaker 5: players like Brett Kenny and Peter Sterling were making, you know,
Speaker 5: winning comps at twenty one years of age. We've had
Speaker 5: so many footballer's it's extreme praise's. There's no doubt in
Speaker 5: the world.
Speaker 4: He of the Dogs, Well, he's going to make a
Speaker 4: message anyone will see Eachannel nine last night.
Speaker 3: Gus was the cat. Gus was the cat that got
Speaker 3: the crime, and the cream is Lachlan Galvin. He just
Speaker 3: looked like he looked like he looked like he was
Speaker 3: so comfortable about where Canterbury will be when the time
Speaker 3: comes when.
Speaker 4: But then he did say, didn't he say that he's
Speaker 4: back in his development and the youth programs that they
Speaker 4: got in place at the Dogs.
Speaker 1: He said, if I was him, I'd be looking for
Speaker 1: a club of development. He also said, if I was him,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be signing a five year deal.
Speaker 2: He said that last week.
Speaker 3: I believe a couple of weeks this is the stuff
Speaker 3: that drives the other clubs insane because he's clearly pitching
Speaker 3: up for him and using that platform to these blokes
Speaker 3: who have got television programs with conflicts of interest in
Speaker 3: to disgrace.
Speaker 5: No rules, there's no rules that says he can't do that,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean? And in that respect it's
Speaker 5: smart administration because if he is trying to make him
Speaker 5: play for Lachland Galvin and he ultimately ends up getting him,
Speaker 5: that's a good thing for the Bulldogs.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 7: But also you wouldn't live on television, would you. Gus
Speaker 7: is smarter than that. Wouldn't it be just a phone call?
Speaker 1: Do you think that's exactly how he's not allowed to
Speaker 1: But that's yes, he is.
Speaker 3: He just can't make it off. They just can't make
Speaker 3: an offer. That's one that is. They can't. But that's
Speaker 3: when it comes as smart. That's where I got smart, because
Speaker 3: he gets the ball rolling at a narrative start, and
Speaker 3: he plants the seed in Lachland Galvin's parents heads and
Speaker 3: in the kids heads, and he's you know that he's
Speaker 3: keen on him. It's like it's it's unless you're aware
Speaker 3: of it, then you don't know what's happening.
Speaker 1: What was also in interesting, and I was made aware
Speaker 1: of it, was that Denny boy says Toby Sexton is
Speaker 1: on the outer and this was only on Sunday. Here
Speaker 1: is Sext and stays focused. Sex is showing a strong
Speaker 1: level of professionals as talk about his future, bubbles and
Speaker 1: the background. The Dogs have not open talks with Sexton
Speaker 1: and his management and he has been offered to Canberra Cowboys,
Speaker 1: Manly and so on. Right, So what do we make
Speaker 1: of this? Because we all know the relationship with Denny
Speaker 1: has with Gus. Now this is only on the weekend.
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to.
Speaker 1: Put these pieces of the puzzle together, you know the self.
Speaker 1: I mean, Gus said he's obsessed with Galvin openly on
Speaker 1: the podcast that he does. Now we've got Denny, who
Speaker 1: is very close with Gus, saying that they're not negotiating
Speaker 1: with Sexton, when only a few weeks ago they were
Speaker 1: going to resign Sexton but that's stalled. And now we've
Speaker 1: got all this drama with Galvin.
Speaker 2: What do we make of it?
Speaker 3: Is the puzzle coming together?
Speaker 5: What's intrigued is how it would all fit break the
Speaker 5: machinations of the team going forward if Galvin was to
Speaker 5: go to the Bulldogs. Okay, so the parts in the
Speaker 5: puzzle You've got Sexton who's a seven. You've got Matt Burton,
Speaker 5: who's proven in the past. He's probably not a seven,
Speaker 5: he's a six or he's a center. But you've already
Speaker 5: got Crichton and Cherry who are outstanding, and you've got
Speaker 5: Conna Tracy at the back. So where does Galvin come
Speaker 5: and fit into this pubble? You tell me, is here Severn?
Speaker 5: Or is he a six?
Speaker 6: And they've got young Gowards in the back.
Speaker 1: Of Galvin's a six, yes, and Burton's a six at best,
Speaker 1: not a seven. Could not possibly play seven. He's a six.
Speaker 1: He's a runner and he wants someone inside of him
Speaker 1: who can control the footy team. So you'd have to
Speaker 1: leave Sexton there, you could, I don't think you could
Speaker 1: put Galvin and Burton in the in the hearts and all.
Speaker 6: They've got young Woods coming through a year down.
Speaker 2: The TI is probably a year or two away.
Speaker 1: But what I find interesting about this is when they
Speaker 1: knocked back Dce, they were strong and why they not
Speaker 1: him back. They didn't want to unsettle the group of
Speaker 1: the Bulldogs. They're flying at the moment. They will be
Speaker 1: on loyalty, they'll be on standards and they decided to
Speaker 1: make that call. Now you've got a kid who's going
Speaker 1: to walk out on his club and you're going to
Speaker 1: bring him and he's bagged his coach on the way
Speaker 1: out kind of thing, right, You're going to bring him
Speaker 1: into a club that are flying at the moment and
Speaker 1: that don't really need him. In my opinion, I'm not
Speaker 1: I no stage here have said that he's going to
Speaker 1: the Bulldogs, mind you, but it's just I'm just trying
Speaker 1: to put the pieces of the puzzle together.
Speaker 2: I know Gus is a big fan.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't as a Bulldogs fan, I wouldn't be going
Speaker 1: after him. I don't know where he fits into that
Speaker 1: team because what you'd have to do is sacrifice someone
Speaker 1: else in there. You don't want to move Crichton and Sherry.
Speaker 1: They're going great kind of trace. He's killing it at
Speaker 1: the back. Burton's at five eight Sex is doing a
Speaker 1: magnificent job and he's not a seven.
Speaker 2: So where does he actually fit in?
Speaker 6: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: That's the piece of the puzzle that I don't really get.
Speaker 5: And also what it does if Burton was to have
Speaker 5: to move positions and then someone else has to move.
Speaker 3: Like it can upset the apple cut.
Speaker 5: And you've also seen Jerome Lewis stance today and we
Speaker 5: all know Crichton is one of his great mates. So
Speaker 5: how does that come if he goes from there to there?
Speaker 8: You know, like this, I don't know the other options
Speaker 8: Rugby power matter and manly like if he's going to
Speaker 8: make the most out of his career, are they the
Speaker 8: two clubs you would know at the home Para matter.
Speaker 1: I could see him combining of Moses magnificently. I actually
Speaker 1: see that combination great. It's just you know, development where
Speaker 1: they're at at the moment. If he leaves early, would
Speaker 1: he go there next year? Would it make a significant difference?
Speaker 1: But I could see that combination working mainly with Brooks
Speaker 1: not so much. What about this is just coming in now.
Speaker 1: What about Penrith playing next to Cleary? That is that
Speaker 1: an option for sure?
Speaker 2: Can you imagine Clary playing with him when have the cap?
Speaker 4: That's what I was thinking. Blaze to Lung for six
Speaker 4: million for five years. That means that Nathan and Cleary
Speaker 4: will be on three and.
Speaker 1: They need to prioritize forwards through there. I reckon with
Speaker 1: Fisher Harris not there at the moment, maybe more so
Speaker 1: than a six.
Speaker 5: But I don't know what the NRL's rules are with
Speaker 5: this too. But it's an important part of the puzzle too,
Speaker 5: is that the Tigers have They didn't get a chance
Speaker 5: to table that offer. But the offer was there for
Speaker 5: a millionaire season. So what what can another club who
Speaker 5: does sign him down the track registering four? What's what
Speaker 5: is a fair figure? Anything under a million dollars on
Speaker 5: the cap?
Speaker 6: I don't think it is.
Speaker 4: I think the Tigers offered him Stefano the farm alum
Speaker 4: for less.
Speaker 2: What it's crazy.
Speaker 3: You take a look, you're a to take a little
Speaker 3: bit for less. You've just got to be market value.
Speaker 6: But what is market value?
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I reckon he's an eight hundred thousand, six hundred because
Speaker 3: because it's because it's a harves market. At the moment,
Speaker 3: you can get you know, you can get one, you
Speaker 3: get one point to one point five.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: It's a crazy situation.
Speaker 1: And Buzz has got the calculator out and Galvin has
Speaker 1: five hundred and ninety days go in Tigers town.
Speaker 2: Where does he send?
Speaker 3: Oh god, I think he'll come back. I think he'll
Speaker 3: be back in first grade. But as I said, I
Speaker 3: don't think. I don't think there will be unless they
Speaker 3: can get something for him. There's no way that they're
Speaker 3: going to release him. And there's no way because that's
Speaker 3: what Isaac Maas's player is to get in.
Speaker 5: But the Tits though, is also that they've got that
Speaker 5: hot young player Latu Feinhu, who is committed to the
Speaker 5: club to the end of twenty seven. I think, and
Speaker 5: if he is going to be the future of the club,
Speaker 5: do you when he does return from injury, do you
Speaker 5: play him there and let him be?
Speaker 7: You see, he's.
Speaker 3: A bit of a watch. The Tigers make a play
Speaker 3: for Adam Reynolds. Reckon just as a little bit of
Speaker 3: a like a little bit like DC in the last
Speaker 3: couple of years of his career.
Speaker 7: It's a branch.
Speaker 3: I reckon, they will okay there it is because I
Speaker 3: reckon that's what they need. They need an experience half
Speaker 3: like that, you know, just until a lat who comes
Speaker 3: through