The Soapbox

      If you have been living under a rock in the outer reaches of space, then you probably haven’t heard about the Lachlan Galvin tsunami which has hit the Tigers.

A quick refresh – Galvin is a 19 year old with the world at his feet and was offered the richest contract for a junior in Tiger’s history, being 5 million.  Everyone was in shock, both that they would offer him THAT much when he hasn’t really proved himself to be worth that sort of coin, but also in shock because he chose to knock the contract back!!!  The drama was taken to another level when the Senior Leadership Group apparently approached coach Benji Marshall at the start of the week and said that the troops do not want him to play as he is not a team player, and now he has been dropped.  

In a craptacular attempt to save some face, Galvin stated that money was not the reason for his wanting to leave the club…which is obvious because I would think that he wouldn’t get anywhere near that from any other club (well, maybe the Rorters could fit him in under their salary sombrero).  Galvin states that he doesn’t think that the coaching staff are able to develop him in the manner that he would like.  Now keep in mind that Galvin’s player manager is Isaac Moses, a ruthless, money hungry parasite who just happens to hate Benji Marshall.  To make matters worse, the club’s big signing in Jerome ‘Flog’ Luai has no time for Galvin so there is animosity aplenty at the Tiges.

Now I am all for a player to have self belief…hell, you need to have that to be able to be successful in professional sport.  But is this a case of Galvin believing his own press releases and thinking that he is already a prodigy???  Or is it more the case of Moses being an absolute dick and filling his kid’s head full of crap???  I would say it is the latter because let’s face it, how can a kid NOT develop under Benji whom also has Luai there to mentor him as well??? 

I will be interested to see the effect that this will have on the club moving forward.  Do they make him sit on the sideline for the remainder of his contract???  Do they sack him immediately???  See how it plays out…

Well that’s what I think!!!