Wests Tigers CEO Shane Richardson has fired a broadside at the NRL over the competition’s player transfer system, labelling it “an absolute disgrace” that the league has never been able to institute a designated transfer window.

Richardson is trying to sort out the Lachie Galvin situation at his club after the rising star’s agent raised grievances about the playmaker’s development under Benji Marshall which led to them declining a multi-year contract extension to leave at the end of next year.

“I’ve been saying it for years and years, it’s an absolute joke we don’t have a transfer window,” Richardson told The Bye Round podcast.

“We would solve most of these problems by having a transfer window and honestly I don’t understand at all.

“Transfer windows are in football throughout the world, the NFL, the AFL, everywhere else but we don’t have it here. It’s ridiculous we don’t have it.

“At the end of the day player managers don’t mind moving players in the middle of the year, they don’t worry about the transfer costs and uprooting kids from school.

“When we actually have a proper transfer window, we won’t stop things in the background, but it’ll be a period we know it’s going to happen.”

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Seven days after being dumped to the NSW Cup, Galvin has been named to play in the No.6 jersey as the Tigers’ (3-4) NRL side face Cronulla at Leichhardt Oval on Sunday.

Tigers fans are worried that Galvin’s manager, Isaac Moses, will encourage young fullback Jahream Bula to leave the club following the controversial agent’s feud with Marshall but Richardson is confident that won’t be the case.

“I don’t have any fear about that all. It’s a different situation, different player. Once again we all want to jump at this because it’s a great story,” he said.

Manly move in on Fogarty

Manly have added a third year to their contract offer to Jamal Fogarty with the race for the veteran halfback’s signature heating.

Ricky Stuart has put a two-year contract extension on the table for Fogarty in the hope that he will stick around to mentor young halves Ethan Strange and Ethan Sanders.

The Sea Eagles are desperate to add the 31-year-old to their roster next year to replace Daly Cherry-Evans.

That would allow him to act as a bridge to Manly’s junior talent in Joey Walsh or Onitoni Large, with Tom Trbojevic still an option to move to No.6 if the Sea Eagles do not land Fogarty.

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Manly’s offer is reportedly more than $2m over three seasons while the Raiders’ deal is $1.2m for two years.

Fogarty has been in strong form with Canberra this season, creating seven try assists and proving a calming influence with his organisational play which has allowed Strange at five-eighth to unleash his running game to great effect.

The Raiders have won five from seven to defy pre-season predictions that they would finish among the also-rans.

They are in third place on the ladder heading into Sunday’s GIO Stadium showdown with the Dolphins.