Lachlan Galvin's extraordinary call broke hearts. How would you feel if these legends did the same to your club?

But the way I'd ask you to look at it - particularly if you're a fervent supporter of any club other than the Tigers - is to ask yourself how you would feel if the same thing was happening with a star young player in your team.

And then take a moment to feel for Tigers fans who, let's be serious, have suffered more than enough from their team's results in recent years.

Along comes a player with the potential to be a superstar, whom the club has taken time to develop and whom they want to build a team around, and he's going to leave.

Let's go back through the years and think how it might've been different for certain clubs had star young players left early.

Imagine if the Newcastle Knights had lost Andrew Johns while he was in the early stages of establishing himself as a future Immortal. You could've kiss those two premierships in 1997 and 2001 goodbye had it happened.

Or, even worse, both Andrew and his brother Matthew. Novocastrian hearts wouldn't have just been broken, but shredded.

Say the Canberra Raiders had lost a Laurie Daley, or a Ricky Stuart, or a Brad Clyde, or more than one of those players as they were rising to a peak of magnificence as a team in the late 1980s.

What if Allan Langer or Steve Renouf had departed the Brisbane Broncos before the team began winning premierships in the early 1990s?

Or, heading into this millennium, if St George Illawarra had lost Trent Barrett, who was prominent in their rise to the 1999 grand final, or Mark Gasnier, who made his first-grade debut in 2000, before either of them had established themselves as stars.

The list goes on and you can pick any number of examples of how it could've been much different for a club had they lost a potential superstar very early in his career.

Right through to the current day, with Nathan Cleary at Penrith. Would the Panthers have won any of the last four premierships without him?

It would've had to have been extraordinary circumstances to make Cleary leave Penrith and if he had left you've got to think it would've been dramatic enough for his father and the team's coach, Ivan Cleary, to have left as well.

And a shift like that would've certainly changed the course of history for the Panthers.

That's why I feel for Tigers fans. They don't deserve this. But after an initial period of huge disappointment, they're simply going to have to start looking for positives. And the positives are there.

The club's chief executive, Shane Richardson, is a proven winner in similar roles at other clubs and the Tigers are doing a tremendous job in reshaping their playing roster with him as a driving force there. That work will continue.

And while it has been a struggle early on for Benji Marshall to establish himself as a young coach, the signs so far this season have been very good.

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It's a revamped team, with a core of experienced players and a lot of youngsters around that, and it inevitably takes time for a team like that to gel and establish consistency.

They will make mistakes along the way and that's what the Tigers have done, but I love their style of play so far this season under Marshall.

But for the fact they are still learning how to finish off games and win the close ones, which is something a good, young side like them will work out soon enough, they could easily have a win-loss record of 5-1 after six rounds, instead of 3-3.

Galvin deciding his future isn't with the Tigers is a kick in the guts for the club and its fans, but it's not the end of the world. Life does go on and there's another game this week, against Parramatta at CommBank Stadium on Monday.

The Tigers have now got to try to focus on that.

Speaking of games, that's one hell of a Good Friday clash we've got between Canterbury and South Sydney at Homebush. But I don't think it's a game the Rabbitohs can win.

The Bulldogs are on top of the competition table as the only unbeaten side for good reason. They're like a new version of Penrith, with the influence of their former Panther players and particularly their coach, former Panthers assistant Cameron Ciraldo.

Souths can be undisciplined and too risky and will be forced into making errors by the relentless Canterbury approach. It might take time, but the Bulldogs should wear them down eventually.

Trying to predict when Penrith are going to win another game has become a dangerous business.

I didn't see that coming this season, so I'm not going to make any predictions about their game against Sydney Roosters at Allianz Stadium on Saturday night.

Rather, I'm just going to watch with a lot of interest. And it doesn't get more interesting than this one for a clash of the 15th and 16th-placed teams.