Phil Gould

At the time we knew Perth and we knew P&G and those sort of things were some really good deals.

We did the same with Josh Curran.

We told Josh Curran, if you want to jump early and get an option for 27, while the good money's out there, go and do it.

And Josh Curran took the opportunity to go and sign with Perth.

They're all things that happen.

This is coincidental.

You're trying to marry up, as the media has done, and I get the whole picture.

that somehow the Galvin thing was the instigator to pushing out those other two players.

It wasn't.

It wasn't.

And Galvin made the team on his merits.

Very separate, yeah.

But out of that, Reid Marnie got himself a good long-term deal at the Cowboys.

Of course he did.

The only thing was they lost Reece Robson, so they were looking for someone a year earlier.

Well, obviously at the time the coaches saw it differently, didn't they?

Because he was starting to come from the bench.

He was not being picked in the starting line-up at different things.

He was used less than 80 minutes at different times during the game.

That's the coaching decision.