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Lachlan Galvin insists his combination with Bulldogs five-eighth Matt Burton will continue to improve after producing a clutch play to snatch victory against the Dragons and silence the doubters.<\/p>\n
Starting in the No.7 jersey for the first time since joining Canterbury from Wests Tigers six weeks ago, Galvin scored a first half try and threw a long cut-out pass for rookie winger Jethro Rinakama to cross in the 79th minute.<\/p>\n
The try handed the Bulldogs a 20-18 win and demonstrated to the 30,000 fans at Accor Stadium on Saturday night why coach Cameron Ciraldo has such faith in the 20-year-old to be the team\u2019s long-term halfback.<\/p>\n
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Ratu Rinakama Try<\/p>\n
\u201cI just saw the opportunity and I took it,\u201d Galvin said. \u201cThat’s pretty much what I do. I saw the pass and I threw it. I’m always going to do that, I’m always going to back my instinct. That’s just me.\u201d<\/p>\n
A proud Ciraldo described the match winning play as \u201cpossibly one of the bravest passes I\u2019ve seen\u201d considering the amount of hype, speculation and criticism Galvin has had to endure since his decision to quit the Tigers for the Bulldogs.<\/p>\n
However, Galvin said he tried to ignore the outside noise and was focused on developing his combination with team-mates ahead of the finals after Canterbury claimed outright second place following the Storm\u2019s loss to Manly on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is what it is, people are always going to have their opinions but I’m just going to keep working,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI listen to the people inside the four walls at Belmore and that’s Ciro and all the coaches and all the boys.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI keep working hard and for it to pay off tonight and me to keep building\u00a0for the rest of the year, that’s all I’m going to do.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m just here to learn. That’s all I want to do. I’m only 20 years of age, I just want to keep building. I’ll just keep learning and keep building. Ciro and all the assistants are doing that for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
With the Bulldogs disrupted by State of Origin commitments since his arrival in early June, Galvin had spent just 51 minutes alongside Burton in the halves in his previous five matches.<\/p>\n
However, they are now looking forward to building a long-term partnership as Canterbury target their first premiership since 2004.<\/p>\n
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Lachlan Galvin Try<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is mad to play with, he’s got such a strong running game so I’m just trying to free up space for him to use that,\u201d Galvin said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I can do for him to get him the ball and get the strike players in our team the ball, that’s what I’m going to do. I love playing with him. We’re building a good bond now. He’s real good out on the field. He talks well. I love him.\u201d<\/p>\n
After backing Galvin to wear the No.7 jersey over long-serving halfback Toby Sexton, Ciraldo felt the tough call had been vindicated regardless of the result against the Dragons.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got to say, even before that last pass, I\u2019d seen a lot of what I liked or what we wanted to see, so whether he makes that pass or not, there was a lot in his game that I liked,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
“I thought Lachy did some really good things. I thought he helped us get off to a really good start with the way he was moving the ball and activating guys on the outside.<\/p>\n
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Galvin with the soft touch<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd to make that play at the end, it\u2019s possibly one of the bravest passes I\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all know he\u2019s had pressure on him, and I can\u2019t wrap him enough for how well he\u2019s handled it, but to trust his instincts and trust himself to make that play just shows everyone probably what we\u2019ve been seeing at training for the last six weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of the first players to congratulate Galvin after he drifted over to the left side to throw the pass for the match-winning try was captain Stephen Crichton, who played outside him at right centre.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“He\u2019s been copping a lot ever since he\u2019s come to the club,\u201d Crichton said.<\/p>\n
we see in our four walls what he does at training and just for him to trust that and in the biggest moment, he put that pressure on himself. If the pass happens, which it did, that\u2019s what he does at training as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo even if it didn\u2019t, we\u2019ll be back him anyway, but just the confidence that he had to throw that pass just shows the type of player he is and we\u2019re happy that he\u2019s at our club too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lachlan Galvin insists his combination with Bulldogs five-eighth Matt Burton will continue to improve after producing a clutch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-7172","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\/7172","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=7172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}