{"id":711393,"date":"2026-06-02T23:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/711393\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T23:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:44:10","slug":"nrl-2026-tigers-players-lachlan-galvin-sledge-after-stephen-crichton-ignores-captains-challenge-knock-on-strip-referee-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/711393\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL 2026: Tigers player\u2019s Lachlan Galvin sledge after Stephen Crichton ignores captain\u2019s challenge, knock-on, strip, referee call"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cLachie, he doesn\u2019t trust ya!\u201d <\/p>\n

That was the hilariously brutal message from one Tigers player after Bulldogs halfback Lachlan Galvin\u2019s plea to challenge a knock-on was ignored<\/a> by skipper Stephen Crichton.<\/p>\n

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Crichton initially dismissed Galvin before desperately trying to challenge the call, which was later shown to be incorrect by referee Peter Gough but it was too late. <\/p>\n

It was at that point that a player was caught on the referee\u2019s mic ribbing the former Tigers playmaker, who was also the subject of relentless boos from fans in Saturday\u2019s game. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s gold,\u201d Fox League\u2019s Gorden Tallis said of the sledge, adding that it looked like Crichton may have thought Galvin had the ball stripped in a one-on-one tackle. <\/p>\n

That would go some way to explaining Crichton\u2019s initial hesitation to challenge the call, with foxsports.com.au\u2019s Paul Crawley declaring the outcry surrounding the moment has nothing to do with Galvin\u2019s name but the number on his back. <\/p>\n

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Braith publicly backs Galvin | 01:46<\/p>\n

\u201cI made the point in my column earlier this week<\/a>. At how many teams does the skipper not back a captain\u2019s challenge from his chief playmaker?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cCan you imagine Api doing it to even Jock Madden? Teddy doing it to Sam Walker? I don\u2019t care which club, it doesn\u2019t happen. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was obvious here that something was going on. Lachie was adamant when he got up that the ball had been stripped by Kai Pearce-Paul. Crichton had an ample time… he was there debating it long enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

It comes as teammate Jacob Kiraz came to Galvin\u2019s defence, labelling some of the abuse the halfback has copped on social media as \u201cdisgusting\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hear a lot of things\u2026 I don\u2019t want to go there,\u201d Kiraz told Code Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see fans, whether it\u2019s from other teams, what they say to him first-hand\u2014to be fair, I don\u2019t like it.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet alone any of my teammates, but especially a 20-year-old halfback who, to be honest, has been one of our best this year. <\/p>\n

\u201cI hear it as well, and I just think it\u2019s disgusting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cLachie, he doesn\u2019t trust ya!\u201d That was the hilariously brutal message from one Tigers player after Bulldogs halfback…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-711393","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\/711393","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=711393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}