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and Zane Musgrove.
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and Zane Musgrove.
Galvin statement says he feels he’ll develop better away from Tigers. Nothing to do with where he may be going
Well like any other player/coach/official if it gets us a premiership in my lifetime, he can build a f**ken house on the penthouse of the leagues club for all I care
I think he's the only way of rebuilding quickly.
Righty oh. Full steam ahead.
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I’m not super happy or confident about it but ultimately it’s still up to the team and players to perform. How or why they got here doesn’t matter
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Do Magpies play at Kellyville later in season?
He will be here by the end of the month.
Even though FitzSimons is a jealous anti-rugby league wanker who should be the LAST journalist writing anything about rugby league .... but he is 100% spot on here
The attack on Galvin is disgusting, hypocritical, bullying and shows a distinct lack of GOOD culture within the Tigers.
Tigers to blame as bullies and hypocrites pile on Galvin
Through gross mismanagement, what should have been a minor affair has blown up, resulting in one of the club’s star players being sidelined and vilified.www.smh.com.au
Tigers to blame as bullies and hypocrites pile on Galvin
Friends, when it comes to hyperbolic hypocrisy, when it comes to bullying bastardry, when it comes to sheer shittiness in rugba league, I think we have a post-war record, yes? (Which is saying something.)
For those who’ve joined us late, Galvin is the 19-year-old wunderkind of the newly resuscitated Wests Tigers, a great player who’s been carving ’em up a little like Benji Marshall in his prime. He’s got verve in his swerve, Veuve in his make-up. He plays champagne rugby league that is a joy to watch!
But here’s the thing. Marshall is now Galvin’s coach, and despite the Tigers recently tabling a $5.5 million offer for five years of the young man’s services, Galvin quietly declined. He did not loudly decline. He quietly declined. All the noise since has come from Tigers management and players. It is understood that the reason for Galvin declining to sign the contract is not because he wants more money, necessarily, but because he thinks he might become a better player under another coach, and that Marshall is not necessarily his kind of coach.
Cue, the said hyperbolic hypocrisy, the bullying bastardry, the sheer shittiness led by – of all people – Jarome Luai, who went so far as to put on his Instagram account an image of god-knows-what, emblazoned with the words: “Team first.”
Sorry, what?
“Team first,” Jarome?
YOU’RE the one saying that? Is that the approach you took, when leaving the team you were born and bred to, the one that raised you as a footballer, the one writ large in your very DNA, Penrith? Or did you just observe the greatest of all rugby traditions – the very one that the game was founded on in 1908 – to take the money and run?
Well, you’re right, you didn’t quite do that.
For in your case, you paused long enough to put a clause in your contract with the Tigers saying you reserved the right to leave at the end of this year if you weren’t happy with the way things were going – or, clearly, if you got a better offer. Can you see much “team first” in that clause, Jarome?
You were joined by Api Koroisau, in the delegation that went to see Marshall on Monday to say you didn’t want to play with Galvin any more, and he should be dropped.
You, Api Koroisau, you? Mate, you didn’t even resist the big bucks as long as Luai did, but left the ’Riff two years ago! Who the hell are you to wring your hands and say Galvin has let the side down by choosing to do precisely what you did?
Two other Tigers players have publicly joined the carry-on, turning on their 19-year-old teammate – and the end result is that Galvin has, unbelievably, been dropped to the NRL’s version of reserve grade.
For what, exactly?
Seriously, to be a player as good as Galvin and find yourself in the NSW Cup, you’d have to think he was guilty of at least one cardinal sin – not going out drinking with the boys after the game? – if not two, but I can’t see any. I repeat: everything he did was quiet. All the noise has come from the Tigers, now leading a baying mob of NRL fans, and Galvin has merely responded to it.
And you, Benji, want to tear him a new one for chasing the money? Which one of you, or your players, hasn’t? The only one I can think of in recent times would be ... Lachie Galvin. As far as we know, money is not the driving force in this imbroglio. He simply doesn’t think Marshall is a great coach. Is this not his right?
The end result of the whole debacle is a Tigers train wreck. Bodies, everywhere. Ill will abounding all around. The Tigers were just back on track, starting to win for the first time in yonks. And now this. Through gross mismanagement, what should have been a minor affair has blown up, de luxe, resulting in one of their star players being sidelined and vilified by all and sundry. Seriously, the online hate against him is extraordinary. (Not quite as bad as the hate your humble correspondent gets when I opine that COVID vaccinations were a good thing that saved millions of people, but close.)
And he’s 19!
Get in the bin, the lot of you hypocrites and bullying bastards.
Oh, and if you’d like to discuss it, I’ll either be in my trailer, or hiding behind JT on the sidelines.
Isaac knew about he clique. Apparently the 4 in your laughable leadership group gave it to Galvin when Benji made him address the playing group on why he was leaving. The mental midgets than made it public and created bullying in the workplace by making it public on social media.
Not really to be honest. My main emotion regarding this is disappointment about the way it has been done and the impact it will be having on a 19yo kid.
Not what old mate said
Oh I’m sorry Jake, did I keep you waiting? Ordinarily I’m sitting at my computer with an elaborate system of alarms and reminders to let me know when I have been blessed with a missive from Jake the Snake and typically will prioritize a response to you over work, breathing or feeding my kids. Sorry mate.
Before he bashed his missus? Yes. Your point?
