Bulldogs halfback Lachlan Galvin is expected to have a target on his back when he goes up against his former club, the Wests Tigers, for the first time.
Galvin joined the Bulldogs in a messy mid-season switch at the end of May, and is settling in nicely at Canterbury, who are in second spot on the ladder after a three-game winning streak.
But according to former Balmain Tigers hooker Benny Elias, Galvin would be in the firing line if he was playing against him.
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“If he did that to your Tigers team, what would have happened to him when you’re playing him this week?” NRL 360 co-host Gorden Tallis asked Elias, who was on the panel.
“We’d gang up on him and absolutely give him it,” Elias said.
Host Braith Anasta was in no doubt the Tigers would be giving Galvin some extra attention at CommBank Stadium on Sunday.
“I don’t want to over hype it and dramatise it but if you put ourselves in (captain) Jarome (Luai) and the Tigers’ shoes,” Anasta said.
“And the guy who walked out, and the circumstances in which he did, he’s got a target, he’s got a target on him.”
Tallis said coach Benji Marshall won’t even need to mention it to his players.
“They won’t have to say a word,” Tallis said.
“Benji won’t even have to say it. There’s some things in the dressing room, that you won’t have to, with the posts and all that kind of stuff, the players will know.”
Panellist James Hooper agreed.
“You tell me, if you were playing against him on Sunday at CommBank Stadium, surely they go after him,” Hooper added.
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Former Queensland prop Ben Ross said Tigers players would be “picking on” Galvin.
“The players won’t say it. Galvin leaving the Tigers definitely hurts them and this weekend they want to prove a point that, yes, they’re not missing him,” Ross told NRL Tonight.
“He’s just gone on in leaps and bounds once he’s got to the Bulldogs.
“It just won’t be about skill, it’ll be a battle of toughness.
“I know they’ll be picking on him this weekend and making sure that he’s felt that he left the wrong club.”
