{"id":129183,"date":"2025-09-09T02:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T02:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/129183\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T02:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T02:45:06","slug":"reece-walshs-injury-scare-ahead-of-broncos-raiders-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/129183\/","title":{"rendered":"Reece Walsh\u2019s injury scare ahead of Broncos Raiders final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shibasaki has shone in defence this season. He did a great job marking NSW gun Stephen Crichton in the State of Origin decider.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>Before the team was announced, half Ben Hunt said the players would welcome him back in a heartbeat if coach Michael Maguire went that way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s had an exceptional year. He knows he made a huge mistake last week and we have moved on now,\u201d Hunt said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in the finals. We will move on and back whatever decision Madge (Maguire) makes, whether that is Gehamat in or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maguire had the senior players\u2019 backing to drop Shibasaki initially. The Broncos have enacted an unofficial booze ban, much as the club did in 2006 in the run-up to their last title win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no straight line in the sand that we are not drinking but it is an [unwritten law] that \u2018we are off the drink, boys\u2019,\u201d Hunt said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one has come out and said it but I think it is common knowledge that we are in the finals and it is time to knuckle down and go after it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AAP<\/p>\n<p>Start the day with a summary of the day\u2019s most important and interesting stories, analysis and insights. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p57ogt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for our Morning Edition newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shibasaki has shone in defence this season. He did a great job marking NSW gun Stephen Crichton in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-129183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}