The Tigers coach winces watching his greatest highlights and quips, “I was doing stupid s--t back then”. But he’s taking a different path when it comes to the promising young playmakers he’s coaching at Concord.
It’s a fun one to contemplate as Benji Marshall the coach watches highlights of Benji Marshall the teenager go about his business of redefining what’s possible with a Steeden in hand.“I don’t know why, I could’ve just passed it,” a bemused Marshall quipped a few weeks ago on Fox League’s“For some reason, I was doing stupid shit back then. I passed it without looking…”
Marshall will always be more critical of himself than any other player, especially a young half coming into grade on his watch. , to the point he says that “when I sat down to decide who was going to take that spot, I wanted the toughest person to take that spot.”Galvin is not Marshall, never will be and should never be compared to one of the most unconventional players the game has seen.Rhett Wyman
Galvin’s inside ball on the run to fellow long-term prospect Jahream Bula, who in turn found 20-year-old prop Samuela Fainu for a try against the Raiders, is a taste of what the Tigers are building with.But Benji being Benji back then, a late-2005 reflection on that spellbinding run against the Sharks points to similar instruction Marshall is stressing as Tigers coach as well.
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