{"id":468717,"date":"2025-09-03T20:07:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=468717"},"modified":"2025-09-03T23:22:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T23:22:58","slug":"how-hate-messages-aimed-at-galvin-made-hynes-feel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=468717","title":{"rendered":"How &#039;hate messages&#039; aimed at Galvin made Hynes feel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/cronulla-sharks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Cronulla\">Cronulla<\/a> halfback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/person\/nicho-hynes-6flq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Nicho Hynes\">Nicho Hynes<\/a> knows how it feels to be inundated with hateful messages on social media.<\/p>\n<p>So as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/person\/lachlan-galvin-6he6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Lachlan Galvin\">Lachlan Galvin<\/a> was bombarded with messages of the same nature throughout his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/news-2025-lachlan-galvin-wests-tigers-canterbury-bulldogs-training-video-benji-marshall-20250530-p5m3kk.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"heavily publicised contract saga\">heavily publicised contract saga<\/a>, Hynes found himself sympathising with the young playmaker.<\/p>\n<p>Hynes, \ufeff29, and Galvin, 20, will face off when the Sharks and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/canterbury-bulldogs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Bulldogs\">Bulldogs<\/a> clash at Accor Stadium on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/tennis\/us-open-2025-novak-djokovic-taylor-fritz-quarter-final-crowd-booing-reaction-video-result-20250903-p5ms57.html\"><strong>&#x27;Doing me a favour&#x27;: Wild scenes as booed Djokovic returns serve<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/afl\/news-2025-izak-rankine-apology-homophobic-slur-adelaide-crows-video-20250902-p5mrxp.html\"><strong>Coach backs Crows&#x27; Rankine handling amid fresh criticism<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/news-2025-brisbane-broncos-off-field-issues-gehamat-shibasaki-stood-down-reece-walsh-toilet-prank-20250903-p5ms4t.html\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\"><strong>&#x27;Got absolutely flogged&#x27;: Madge punishes axed Broncos gun<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;\ufeffI love rugby league, I love this club and I love trying to be the best version of myself,&quot; Hynes told 9News&#x27; Danny Weidler when asked about the &quot;shooshing&quot; gesture he made after scoring a try recently.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;ve been away from social media. I go on every now and then, but nowhere near as much as I used to, and I don&#x27;t see all the hate.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s hard to avoid sometimes; people talk about it and people check in on me to make sure I&#x27;m OK.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Watch the 2025 NRL premiership live and free on Nine and<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/stream.9now.com.au\/KDmNCTLBeRb\"><em><strong>9Now<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"ba71791f-71ac-4a93-9dab-b05126c0c05a\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/ba71791f-71ac-4a93-9dab-b05126c0c05a\" alt=\"Lachlan Galvin (left) and Nicho Hynes.\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Galvin was the target of hateful social media messages amid his mid-season switch from Wests Tigers to the Bulldogs.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, \ufeffthe former Australian Schoolboys captain was the target of stinging social media barbs from some of his own Tigers teammates, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/news-2025-jarome-luai-lachlan-galvin-wests-tigers-press-conference-video-social-media-posts-criticism-benji-marshall-20250417-p5lsjc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"including co-captain Jarome Luai\">including co-captain Jarome Luai<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I did feel for him a lot,&quot; Hynes said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Part of me really wanted to reach out and see if he was OK, but we had our own internal things we needed to worry about, as well.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;As a young fella, I think 19 years old [as he was at the time], going through that, and the heat, and he probably would have been getting hate messages and being told things that people shouldn&#x27;t be told in those hate messages \u2014 it would have been hard for him and his family.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>However, Hynes admits such messages come with the territory.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6378259992112\" src=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/pickerimage-7.jpg\" alt=\"&#x27;Mongrel&#x27; behind Sea Eagles debutant\" data-vms-id=\"ref:cmf3s3qze00010hpbtatv8fmj\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;\ufeffAll the best players go through it at some stage in their career,&quot; said the 2022 Dally M Medal winner.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Nathan [Cleary] has gone through a hell of it at a certain stage, and Mitch Moses went through it at a point, and now he&#x27;s matured and he&#x27;s come out of it, and look at how good he plays.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I just think that&#x27;s just a key part of a role [for] a No.7 or a No.6.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Canterbury will finish the regular season in third on the ladder regardless of what happens in the final round.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks are currently fifth but could finish fourth, depending on whether they win and how other games pan out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Cronulla halfback Nicho Hynes knows how it feels to be inundated with hateful messages on social media. So as Lachlan Galvin was bombarded with messages <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=468717\" title=\"How &#039;hate messages&#039; aimed at Galvin made Hynes feel\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":468719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=468717"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468722,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468717\/revisions\/468722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/468719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=468717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}