{"id":215163,"date":"2026-01-03T17:49:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/215163\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T17:49:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:49:17","slug":"new-anti-tampering-rules-announced-penalties-lachlan-galvin-contract-bulldogs-phil-gould","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/215163\/","title":{"rendered":"New anti-tampering rules announced, penalties, Lachlan Galvin contract, Bulldogs, Phil Gould"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NRL has announced strengthened anti-tampering rules that will punish club officials and player agents from making public or private comments about the future of contracted players.<\/p>\n

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Under the new rules, which will come into effect on February 1 and were agreed to by both the NRL and the Rugby League Players\u2019 Association, clubs and agents have been informed they will face sanctions if they make \u201ccertain public and private statements that could be seen as attempts to lure or entice a player to join another club\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Penalties for breaching the new rules may include financial penalties for offending clubs, players and agents along with salary cap penalties and, in the most serious circumstances, deregistration of club officials, agents and players.<\/p>\n

The NRL clarified that any public statements would not be considered tampering should the player is given permission by his or her current club to negotiate elsewhere.<\/p>\n

The changes come after Lachlan Galvin\u2019s messy, mid-season exit from the Wests Tigers. Only adding to the drama were comments from Bulldogs supremo Phil Gould, who called Galvin \u201cthe best teenage footballer I\u2019ve ever seen\u201d in 2024 and declared he could \u201cearn more money out of rugby league than any player in history\u201d.<\/p>\n

While it is unclear if that incident in itself sparked the NRL\u2019s decision to alter its rules, it did cause plenty of debate at the time<\/a> of Galvin\u2019s move to the Bulldogs. <\/p>\n

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Veteran rugby league reporter Paul Crawley said on Fox League\u2019s NRL 360 that there was little doubt Gould was \u201cmaking a pitch\u201d for Galvin indirectly, while Andrew Webster revealed Gould\u2019s antics were starting to get on the nerve of rival clubs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the stuff that drives other clubs insane, because he\u2019s clearly pitching up for him and using that platform,\u201d Webster said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese blokes who have got television programs with conflicts of interest, it\u2019s a disgrace.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s where Gus is smart, he gets the ball rolling and a narrative starting. He plants the seed in Lachlan Galvin\u2019s parent\u2019s heads and in the kid\u2019s head that he\u2019s keen on him.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnless you\u2019re aware of it, you don\u2019t know it is happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the time though, regardless of his intentions, Gould had not done anything wrong but under the NRL\u2019s new rules he and the Bulldogs would be at risk of sanction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NRL has announced strengthened anti-tampering rules that will punish club officials and player agents from making public…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-215163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}