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\u201cHe didn\u2019t play any Jersey Flegg. He didn\u2019t play any NSW Cup. He finished a schoolboy season and the next thing he was playing NRL in first grade with the Tigers. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo he\u2019s obviously talented. He\u2019s never had to run a football team as himself as No.7. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd longer term, he\u2019s probably not a No.7, but he\u2019s getting great experience at the moment. He\u2019s learning the game really well. It\u2019s wonderful for him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Phil Gould has admitted Lachlan Galvin is not a halfback.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
Gould also denied any link between Galvin\u2019s arrival and the departures of Toby Sexton and Reed Mahoney from the club. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the Lachlan Galvin thing became available we looked at it as just a great opportunity for the future of the club,\u201d Gould said. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t necessarily about last year and that six month period. It was more about the next three years. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn fact the first three weeks he was here I said to the coaches play him in reserve grade. I said, you don\u2019t have to pick him, it is not about this year. We have got him for three and a half years not six months. I said you pick the team the way you see fit. <\/p>\n
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\u201cGalvin forced his way into the team with his training and a lot of it at the request of some of the players he was playing with for how impressive he was at training at that time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think the coach was left with any choice other than to pick that kid in the side.\u201d <\/p>\n
Gould was pressed on whether he could have delayed Galvin\u2019s signing until 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s not how it works,\u201d Gould said. <\/p>\n
\u201cOriginally I said we were not interested because he was signed until 2026. This was a kid they offered five years and five million dollars, so he was a pretty hot commodity at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt all happened quickly and it was either take the punt and buy him then or miss out altogether.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know it sounds coincidental. I know you are trying to marry up what happened in the second half of the year, with the first half of the year, but it had very little to do with that. <\/p>\n
\u201cThese sorts of things with Mahoney and Sexton were in the pipeline for some months before Galvin became available. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe Galvin thing had nothing to do with instigating the Mahoney and the Sexton decisions I can tell you that emphatically.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Gould pointed out that Mahoney was released because the club could not afford him. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe released Mahoney because we couldn\u2019t afford him for 2027,\u201d Gould said. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf we kept him it would have been really difficult for us to retain other players that we have got in our club at that time.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was virtually a salary cap discussion between me and his manager early last year about what the future would look like.\u201d <\/p>\n
Gould put the decision to drop Mahoney late last season on the coaches and Cameron Ciraldo. Mahoney was fuming as the scenario unfolded, including an infamous moment in the dressing room when he gave a sarcastic smile to the internal TV camera.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt that time he was being put back to the bench and his minutes were being reduced, but that is a coaching decision,\u201d Gould said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I can see what the coaches were saying and again the coaches want to win and are trying to get the best result for the team.\u201d <\/p>\n
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Gould also discussed the future of five-eighth Matt Burton, again conceding his future may not lay in the halves.<\/p>\n
The Dogs boss insisted he wanted to keep Burton at the club, but he may switch to the centres. <\/p>\n
\u201cI have had this conversation with Matt Burton and his management six or eight weeks ago and he is coming off-contract at the end of 2027,\u201d Gould explained. <\/p>\n
\u201cAll these rumblings in the media that he should be playing centre and he is off to Perth and the Bulldogs don\u2019t want him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI sat down with him and his manager about all this rubbish in the papers and said, we would like to re-sign you and we would like you to stay with the Bulldogs.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said I want to stay with the Bulldogs and I said good, that\u2019s a really good place to start.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo in the next 18 months we have got to work out what we are going to pay Matt Burton and where he is going to play.\u201d <\/p>\n
Gould denied he is worried Burton could leave if he waits to ink an extension until after November 1. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not worried about November 1 and I told his manager that,\u201d Gould said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI trust his manager and I trust Matt Burton. I\u2019ve known him since he was a teenager. <\/p>\n
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\u201cBurton is not going to run out in the middle of the night and sign somewhere else without telling me.<\/p>\n
\u201cBurton can get a contract anywhere tomorrow. The Bulldogs have the ability to not let that happen and that\u2019s my intention. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut Burton has got to tell me where he wants to play and if in that position he is contributing to the success of the team.\u201d <\/p>\n
Finally Gould was pressed if Burton\u2019s future is at centre. <\/p>\n
\u201cWell you work it out, if he plays centre what are you going to pay him?\u201d Gould said. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd if you play him at five-eighth what could he earn? So he has got some decisions to make. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe are very honest about the conversations. We are mates. Burton would have no problem walking out the door and getting a deal anywhere tomorrow to play five-eighth.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, Gould denied there was no future at No.6 for Burton at the club. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know about that,\u201d Gould said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t know where Galvin is going to play longer-term.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bulldogs boss Phil Gould has dropped a bombshell on the futures of current playmakers Lachlan Galvin and Matt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,689,329909,651,7618,7622,109057,329916,4565,17343,329918,13774,763,329912,329910,84257,329724,329917,4494,4552,329919,4617,147876,33215,761,762,158,677,46,701,329914,329913,63405,85,4546,329915,4440,329911,3439],"class_list":["post-684364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-blues-training-session","tag-brisbane","tag-cameron-ciraldo","tag-canterbury-bulldogs","tag-club-mid-season","tag-coaching-decision","tag-cronulla-sharks","tag-daily-telegraph","tag-dogs-boss","tag-football-team","tag-fox-league","tag-game-manager","tag-grade-halfback","tag-halves-combination","tag-heartwarming-tribute","tag-horror-form","tag-jai-arrow","tag-jake-trbojevic","tag-kid-playing","tag-lachlan-galvin","tag-long-term-halfback","tag-lord-gould-of-brookwood","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-oceania","tag-perth","tag-queensland","tag-schoolboy-football","tag-schoolboy-season","tag-special-talent","tag-sports","tag-stephen-crichton","tag-stunning-admission","tag-toby-sexton","tag-west-tigers","tag-western-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684364","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=684364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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