{"id":35978,"date":"2025-07-31T22:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T22:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/35978\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T22:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T22:35:11","slug":"nrl-news-2025-lachlan-galvin-warned-of-wests-tigers-assault-as-bulldogs-gun-prepares-for-grudge-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/35978\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2025, Lachlan Galvin warned of Wests Tigers assault as Bulldogs gun prepares for grudge match"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bulldogs<\/a> recruit Lachlan Galvin<\/a> has been told to prepare for a verbal assault at CommBank Stadium on Sunday when he goes up against his former club.<\/p>\n

The just-turned 20-year-old will run out for Canterbury to take on Wests Tigers<\/a> for the first time since jumping ship mid-season.<\/p>\n

It was an ugly exit from Concord for the then-teenager as his controversial manager Isaac Moses<\/a> made allegations about Tigers coach Benji Marshall<\/a>‘s ability, and then claimed his client was being bullied by teammates.<\/p>\n

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Tigers halfback Jarome Luai this week denied any suggestion of lingering tension between he and his former halves partner.<\/p>\n

But Bulldogs manager Phil Gould has told Galvin to get ready to cop it on Sunday – on the field and off it.<\/p>\n

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Lachlan Galvin of the Bulldogs watches from the sideline.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“(He’s an) extremely level headed kid, quite unflappable actually. Very mature beyond his years,” Gould told Wide World of Sports’ Six Tackles with Gus podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“It’s going to be a tough afternoon for him, of course it will be, and I’ve got no doubt he will be targeted.<\/p>\n

“But that’s football, these are the things you face.<\/p>\n

Watch the 2025 NRL premiership live and free on Nine and 9Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“That’s more for the fans to worry about, not for the players out there. They will have more on their mind than that.”<\/p>\n

Legendary Bulldogs halfback Terry Lamb echoed those sentiments when speaking to 9News on Thursday.<\/p>\n

“He’s better than me, that’s for sure. I would have blown up (under all the scrutiny),” Lamb said.<\/p>\n

\"Lachlan<\/p>\n

Lachlan Galvin celebrates scoring a try\u00a0NRL Photos\/Gregg Porteous<\/p>\n

“Absolutely (they will sledge him). We all leave clubs at some stage, we go to a new place and the opposition gives you a bagging.”<\/p>\n

Galvin’s new teammates claim the rivalry hasn’t been spoken about in the lead up to this week’s game.<\/p>\n

“He’s fine,” Jacob Preston told 9News.<\/p>\n

“He hasn’t even brought it up. To be honest I don’t think it’s going to worry him at all.”<\/p>\n

Speaking on Fox League this week, Tigers icon Ben Elias said if Galvin was facing them in his day, “We’d gang up on him and absolutely give him it”.<\/p>\n

Galvin played 21 games for the Tigers last year and was named the RLPA’s rookie of the year. He played 10 more games for the club this season before quitting to join the Dogs.<\/p>\n

Canterbury has won four of six games that the young halfback has featured in to date, and he threw a miracle pass to win the game against the Dragons a fortnight ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bulldogs recruit Lachlan Galvin has been told to prepare for a verbal assault at CommBank Stadium on Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-35978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}