Maroons icon\u2019s shock Ponga call for Origin; \u2018lazy\u2019 moments from \u2018diabolical\u2019 Broncos called out<\/a><\/p>\nDespite the club\u2019s on-field struggles, Read still believes the Bulldogs need to keep Galvin where he is.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now at this point of his career, he\u2019s a better six but the goal is to make him a good halfback and obviously Cameron Ciraldo thinks he can be a great halfback,\u201d Read said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the meantime, their season is slipping away. He\u2019s the playmaker, and if he\u2019s not doing his job, that\u2019s why they\u2019re so poor in attack,\u201d Ritchie responded.<\/p>\n
Galvin has been one of the Bulldogs\u2019 better players at times during their rough patch which Read noted. <\/p>\n
He says it\u2019s unfair that much of the focus is on Galvin and that criticism needs to be levelled at some of the playmaker\u2019s teammates, particularly fullback Connor Tracey.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not just on him. Why do we point the finger at him every week,\u201d Read said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat about everyone around him? Did you watch that game? What about Connor Tracey. He was poor, why don\u2019t we talk about him?<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery elite team has an elite fullback. They don\u2019t so why don\u2019t we point the finger at him. Why don\u2019t we talk about Bailey Hayward taking two runs in about two weeks. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s not an elite fullback. I think we can all agree on that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lachlan Galvin debate has reached fever pitch. Watch every game of every round of the NRL Premiership…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,7618,320596,17343,28814,169508,113043,12734,763,4617,5332,761,762,158,320594,320595,85],"class_list":["post-663775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cameron-ciraldo","tag-club-believing","tag-daily-telegraph","tag-dean-ritchie","tag-elite-fullback","tag-fever-pitch","tag-fiery-debate","tag-fox-league","tag-lachlan-galvin","tag-losing-streak","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-position-reaching-fever","tag-reaching-fever-pitch","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663775","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=663775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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