The eighth Immortal called for the Bulldogs to move Galvin into the six jersey and to bring rookie Mitchell Woods in at halfback to provide more creativity following the loss to the undermanned Broncos last week. <\/p>\n
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Bulldogs coach Cameron Ciraldo staunchly defended his young playmaker after Friday\u2019s match, and his skipper has backed him up by referencing the stunning round 6 performance where Galvin had his best game in the NRL to lead Canterbury to a shock win over Penrith.<\/p>\n
Lachlan Galvin was sensational against the Panthers a few weeks ago, but Andrew Johns believes he should be moved to five-eighth. Picture: Cameron Spencer\/Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Galvin has formed a wonderful combination with edge forward Jacob Preston since he moved to Belmore, but there are still parts of his game that he needs to develop. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe way he played against the Panthers, everyone was probably on his side saying he\u2019s the best halfback that week. Now two weeks later, he probably hasn\u2019t performed the way he wanted to,\u201d Crichton said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a reflection on the boys around him probably not helping him do his job as well. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe definitely know that he is our halfback. The way he played against the Panthers is the way halfbacks should be playing. <\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like we\u2019re not helping him enough as players around him. We\u2019ve just reviewed the way he played against the Panthers and he is capable of doing it.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been playing what he\u2019s been learning at training. He\u2019s been getting criticised a lot lately for the way that our team\u2019s been performing. <\/p>\n
\u201cEver since he\u2019s come to the club, I\u2019ve always said that if you\u2019re not getting criticised, you\u2019re not doing your job right. I feel like he\u2019ll be learning off this and in a couple of years\u2019 time, or even now, he\u2019s learning these lessons.<\/p>\n
Galvin isn\u2019t the only Canterbury player who struggled against the Broncos. Picture: Cameron Spencer\/Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a young 20-year-old, he\u2019s going to become a player \u2013 one of the greats \u2013 sooner or later. I feel like all the lessons that he\u2019s taking right now are pretty harsh, but it\u2019s going to build him up to be the player that he wants to be.\u201d<\/p>\n
Galvin isn\u2019t the only one facing criticism at the club as it struggles to bridge the gap between its best and its worst.<\/p>\n
The Bulldogs have won three of their seven matches this season to sit outside the top eight, while they were outright first 12 months ago with just one loss through the opening eight rounds. <\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t felt this much criticism since I got to the club,\u201d Crichton said ahead of Friday\u2019s game against the Cowboys.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut we\u2019re at a big club with a big fan base. There are always going to be people with their opinion. <\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like we\u2019ve been really clear with our boys where our answers lie, and that\u2019s inside our four walls.<\/p>\n
The Bulldogs are outside the top eight after they were genuine premiership contenders this time a year ago. Picture: Bradley Kanaris\/Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cRegardless of media attention and regardless of social media posts and things like that, as long as you have the opinion of your players and the coaching staff, that\u2019s the only opinions that you can listen to. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere are always going to be people\u2019s opinions out there regardless if it is good or bad. Taking the lessons out of the weekend and learning from it is the biggest thing for us.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know what our best is, and our worst is a long way away from that as well. We\u2019ve just got to try and bridge that gap between our mindset and our preparation to the game. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere are probably lapses in concentration there and the effort areas where we need our effort wasn\u2019t there on the weekend too. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve had that spoken about in video and I think the biggest thing now is learning from those lessons and not letting it happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bulldogs skipper Stephen Crichton is adamant Lachlan Galvin remains the club\u2019s best option at halfback despite calls from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[48257,307137,64,63,689,7618,25907,7622,19061,307055,38334,36840,2105,4592,4617,307135,49979,198164,307136,761,762,673,158,677,4598,94353,91229,85,4546,670],"class_list":{"0":"post-634080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-andrew-johns","9":"tag-answers-lie","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","13":"tag-cameron-ciraldo","14":"tag-canterbury","15":"tag-canterbury-bulldogs","16":"tag-coaching-staff","17":"tag-dogs-fans","18":"tag-fan-base","19":"tag-genuine-premiership-contenders","20":"tag-getty-images-inc","21":"tag-jacob-preston","22":"tag-lachlan-galvin","23":"tag-legendary-playmaker","24":"tag-martin-gabor","25":"tag-media-attention","26":"tag-mitchell-woods","27":"tag-national-rugby-league","28":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","29":"tag-new-south-wales","30":"tag-nrl","31":"tag-oceania","32":"tag-penrith-panthers","33":"tag-shake-hands","34":"tag-social-media-posts","35":"tag-sports","36":"tag-stephen-crichton","37":"tag-sydney"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634080","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=634080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}