Lachie Galvin, Nathan Cleary wants you to know everything will be all right.

That all this intense speculation and commentary about what you do on the football field, whether you should have left Wests Tigers the way you did, and whether you’re actually a better halves option at Canterbury than Super League-bound Toby Sexton will only make you better and stronger in the long run.

You can take it as fact, because Cleary has walked in your shoes.

When he was 20, Galvin’s age now, Cleary was playing in his first State of Origin series, and was even an innocent bystander in the Penrith bunfight that was Anthony Griffin’s late-season sacking, and the eventual return of his father, Ivan Cleary, to coach.

Few NRL players have generated as many headlines as Galvin this year.

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