Reece Walsh has been denied what would have gone down as one of the greatest tries of his career — and it was mere millimetres that brought his scintillating effort undone.
Brisbane‘s Clive Churchill Medal-winning fullback got thousands of fans at Cbus Super Stadium — not only those in Broncos jerseys, but Titans jumpers — out of their seats with an electric run down the left wing late in the first half on Easter Saturday.
Walsh — who finished the night in hospital, concussed and nursing a possible fractured cheekbone — mopped up a Jayden Campbell bomb deep in Broncos territory, brushed off Keano Kini, and beat Sialetili Faeamani with the footwork of a cheerleader.
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Reece Walsh tip-toeing down the left touchline. Fox League
He then evaded a diving Cooper Bai, tip-toed down the touchline, whizzed past a diving Campbell, tip-toed some more, and streaked away.
As he swerved in field towards the posts, he gestured to the crowd with a smile as if to say: “How do you like that?”
The crowd liked it a lot.
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But as he was dancing down the touchline, the touch judge put his flag in the air, and replays confirmed he had indeed kissed the paint. Not once, but twice.
“It looked pretty good at the time,” Broncos coach Michael Maguire said with a smile after the game, won by Brisbane 26-12.
“I thought it was a try, but then you go back to a replay and I think his foot was on the line.
“He comes up with some special plays. [It’s] just a shame it wasn’t a try — it would have been a good one.”
While Walsh’s touchline tap dance amounted to nothing, officials couldn’t take away a try of his scored earlier in the game.
He grabbed the opening points of the game in the third minute when he put up a kick and jumped above Keano Kini to regather the ball and score.