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Herald Sun
24-04-2025
- Sport
- Herald Sun
Storm Cup NRL schoolboys live stream: Round 1 Hallam v Victoria University, The Grange v Mt Ridley
Don't miss out on the headlines from Rugby League Live Stream. Followed categories will be added to My News. Hallam Secondary College excitement machine Waka Hammond is back to turn heads in the Storm Cup as he and his teammates seek to defend their title. Hammond made headlines during last year's Peter Mullholland Cup when his school became the first Victorian team to qualify for the tournament's quarter-finals. Now he will be hoping to help Hallam kick start their 2025 season with victory in the Storm Cup on Tuesday against Victoria University Secondary College. That clash will be the first of a big double-header broadcast live and exclusive on KommunityTV from 12.45pm, followed by The Grange against Mt Ridley at 2.15. Cast your mind back to 2024 and you might remember Hammond sidestepping opponents and breaking three tackles on his way to a last minute try. He enters the clash on the back of a significant season where he represented the Melbourne Storm in SG Ball where the Victorian side made the finals. Currently contracted to the Storm, he spends some days learning from current stars Jerome Hughes and Cameron Munster and rugby league legends including Billy Slater. The young gun has previously played in the halves and fullback and Hallam assistant coach Jamie Fardell said a decision on his position is yet to be decided. 'He can play anywhere which is a really good thing for us,' he said. 'He's our co-captain as well. In Year 10, we played him as a hooker. We like when we have him at fullback because there's a real sense of freedom.' Hammond isn't the only player connected to the Storm either with co-captain Micah Warena, who plays at lock and hooker, expected to play a key role. Prop Phoenix Woods is another prospect to keep an eye on after playing in the SG Ball tournament. 'Micah is a real leader and that's why we made him captain of the senior team when he was in Year 10,' Fardell said. 'He can steer the ship and is really hard working. Phoenix has really engaged with the school community since he's been here, he's a really well liked character around the school.' Fardell said the group was determined to make their mark on the competition. 'Many of this group were in Year 11 when we won for the first time,' he said. 'It drives a little passion. We'll have KommunityTV going in the library, the theater and there's learning spaces teachers will take classes to. 'There's a lot of passion about our involvement.' The Storm Cup coverage is part of a partnership between KommunityTV and the NRL to live stream every NRL National Schoolboy and Schoolgirl Cup match in 2025.
Yahoo
16-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Sinister theory emerges in Lachie Galvin saga as 'disrespectful' detail slammed
Lachie Galvin's immediate future at the Tigers has been thrown into question, with theories emerging that his management team is deliberately agitating to get him an early release. Some of the 19-year-old's teammates have turned on Galvin and it saw him axed from Benji Marshall's first-grade squad after he rejected a contract extension worth up to $6 million to stay at the Tigers long-term. Galvin's management reportedly weren't even interested in listening to the Tigers' offer for their client and informed the club that he had no faith in Benji Marshall's coaching ability or that the club could help him grow into the player he wants to be. It came after reports Galvin requested a release on multiple occasions last year as well. So the Tigers pulled their offer and said the five-eighth would not be staying at the club after his current deal expires in 2026. League great Greg Alexander labelled the criticism of Marshall 'very disrespectful" and questioned how a 19-year-old would even come to such a conclusion. And Alexander said it appeared obvious to him that Galvin's team of advisors, led by player manager Isaac Moses, had used the drama to help engineer an early exit for the teenager. 'I don't know how much experience Lachie's had in being coached. He's had a school coach and an SG Ball coach but he's 19," Alexander told Fox Sports. 'To say that Benji isn't going to take his game to the next level, I found that very disrespectful and I didn't like it... The criticism of the coach on the back of announcing that he's not signing with the Tigers, it doesn't sit well with people... the agitation, the comments about Benji, are comments to get an early release." RELATED: Seibold and Manly in big Galvin call as frontrunner emerges for teen Luai's brutal jab at Galvin as playmaker axed and shock claims emerge Former NRL premiership winner Braith Anasta was also scathing of Galvin's advisors and said they must have known the controversy that would erupt by taking this course of action. 'Was the management and parents of Lachlan Galvin so naive to think that the decision that they have made, at the time they have made it, and the way that they have done it, was not going to get a reaction like this?' Anasta asked on NRL 360. 'Not only from his teammates, but from the fans and the media. That this kid wasn't going to be put under pressure. Wasn't going to be ostracised. Wasn't going to have to deal with some big issues and some big backlash that would put him in a vulnerable position as a human being in a professional sport, that could impact his mental health and put him in this position?" Tigers teammates Jarome Luai and Sunia Turuva both took aim at Galvin in posts on social media, which critics such as Alexander have suggested were on the verge of "bullying". Anasta also believed Turuva took things to far after his post suggested Galvin was motivated by money but echoed Alexander's thoughts that Galvin's camp had orchestrated the saga to help get him out of the club. 'I would say the group around Galvin have agitated for this move and this could now be used as leverage to get him out, which I think is exactly what is happening," Anasta continued. 'This isn't the Tigers responsibility now because they have done everything they can. They have put money on the table and they haven't told him he can go elsewhere. So the responsibility here lays on his management and his parents.' Bulldogs supremo Phil Gould also suggested that recent events may have been a way for Galvin's camp to try and orchestrate an early release, but doubts they envisaged the backlash that has ensued. "He might have anticipated that maybe they were going to drop me, but to have the teammates be behind that decision, that's big," Gould said on his Six Tackles with Gus podcast. 'If it was a strategy being used to get him out of his contract in the short term so he can go somewhere next year, well then to that extent it's probably backfired... The end result might be that he gets a release from the Tigers and he can go and play somewhere else next year for big money. That will have come at a cost." The consensus across the league world seems to be that Galvin wouldn't turn down a $6 million offer from the Tigers unless he had something else lined up. He's denied that is the case and rivals NRL clubs are not allowed to make the 19-year-old an offer until he hits the open market on November 1 this year. But as Gould suggested, Galvin's immediate future at the Tigers appears "untenable" and a parting of ways sooner rather than later could be the best course for all parties.
