That would have to be the five grand Parramatta put on his head when, during year one of Harold Matthews, it was suggested there wasn’t a position anywhere on the field they could see him fitting.
“Which killed me,” says Galvin, who grew up an Eels supporter like his father, and grandfather before that.
“I was gutted.
“As a kid, I wore the same yellow Nikes as Jarryd Hayne for five years.
“All I wanted to do was play for them.
“Even when people would tell me I may have to play with somebody else I’d always say ‘nup, it will be Parramatta’.”
Matthew and Lachlan Galvin as Parramatta fans. Lachlan now plays for Wests Tigers. Picture suppliedSource: News Corp Australia
Future Wests Tigers star Lachlan Galvin was a big Parramatta Eels fan as a child. Picture suppliedSource: News Corp Australia
But more than not wanting him, Galvin says the Eels then lumped him with a $5000