During the second-half of their loss to the Wests Tigers, Crichton decided to ignore his teammate\u2019s plea to challenge a knock-on call.<\/p>\n
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While the incident looked like a clear-cut handling error, the replay showed that Galvin did not drop the ball and it was instead raked from his hands by opposing back-rower Kai Pearce-Paul.<\/p>\n
However, the Bulldogs weren\u2019t able to subsequently challenge it after the time had elapsed to do so.<\/p>\n
This is the second time the pair have been involved in an incident with one another within a matter of weeks.<\/p>\n
Ciraldo unloads on dubious ref decisions | 07:57<\/p>\n
In Round 10, Crichton was left frustrated by Galvin’s poor defensive effort against the Dolphins, which led to a four-pointer.<\/p>\n
Vision highlighted by foxsports.com.au showed Crichton delivering a withering spray at Galvin in the back play after Kodi Nikorima strolled through for a simple try.<\/p>\n
Despite the incident that was caught on video, the Bulldogs revealed that the pair have a solid relationship. <\/p>\n
\u201cI can assure you your assessment on their relationship is wildly wrong,\u201d the club\u2019s media manager, Darcie McDonald, said on X.<\/p>\n
Less than a month ago, Crichton labelled the 20-year-old playmaker as a future great of the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has been getting criticised a lot lately for the way that our team has been performing and ever since he\u2019s come to the club,\u201d Crichton said at the time.<\/p>\n
Crichton visibly frustrated at Galvin | 00:27<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve always said, if you\u2019re not getting criticised, you\u2019re not doing your job right. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019ll be learning from this. He\u2019s learning these lessons as a young 20-year-old, and he\u2019s going to become a player \u2014 like one of the greats \u2014 sooner or later. <\/p>\n
\u201cI 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A moment between Bulldogs skipper Stephen Crichton and young halfback Lachlan Galvin has captured the attention of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-707232","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\/707232","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=707232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}