{"id":175530,"date":"2025-09-28T16:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T16:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/175530\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T16:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T16:14:12","slug":"adam-reynolds-and-reece-walsh-explain-the-broncos-game-winning-moment-against-penrith-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/175530\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Reynolds and Reece Walsh explain the Broncos’ game-winning moment against Penrith Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four years ago, the Penrith Panthers were on 14 as Adam Reynolds lined up a sideline conversion with less than five minutes left at Lang Park.<\/p>\n

He shanked it and South Sydney lost the grand final 14-12 as Reynolds’s Rabbitohs career ended in miserable heartbreak<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Sunday night, Penrith sat on 14 points with just over three minutes left at Lang Park.<\/p>\n

This time, Deine Mariner had just scored the game-tying try for the Broncos.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Reynolds barely acknowledged his demons as he walked past them to take the kicking tee from Brisbane’s glamour player.<\/p>\n

Penrith’s NRL stranglehold ends as Broncos win thriller<\/a><\/p>\n

Adam Reynolds nails a sideline conversion with three minutes left to send the Broncos into the NRL grand final and end Penrith’s dynasty with a 16-14 win at Lang Park.<\/p>\n

Reece Walsh had played a starring role in Brisbane’s comeback from 14-0 down at half-time and had been kicking them sweetly while Reynolds iced his hamstring for seven weeks.<\/p>\n

But Walsh’s first shot against Penrith just snuck inside the right post and his second, from similarly close range, hammered into the left upright after Xavier Willison’s 70th-minute try took Brisbane within four points.<\/p>\n

Perhaps it was a good thing for Brisbane because, rather than trying to get into position for the elusive two-point field goal they couldn’t find in week one of the finals, they kept playing footy in search of a try.<\/p>\n

\"Reece<\/p>\n

Whatever gods Reece Walsh believes in, he worships at the altar of Adam Reynolds.<\/p>\n

And it came off as a ragged right-side shift ended with Walsh seemingly trapped after running into no fewer than five Panthers.<\/p>\n

He burst through Luke Garner and Blaize Talagi, crashed into Casey McLean, ignored Brad Schneider’s blindside rush, somehow got his arms free, and popped a ball over a leaping Brian To’o.<\/p>\n

Mariner latched onto the bouncing ball and powered through Lindsay Smith, To’o and Dylan Edwards for the tying try.<\/p>\n

Then came Reynolds’s shot at redemption<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After missing six games with a serious hamstring injury, Reynolds happily let Walsh kick the early ones and admitted his 35-year-old legs felt a little tight.<\/p>\n

But with the game on the line, there was no doubt he wanted that moment.<\/p>\n

“I told him to take it,” Walsh told ABC Sport.<\/p>\n

“That’s his moment. He’s bloody born for that; those little legs. I love him so much.”<\/p>\n

Reynolds said Walsh’s “legs got a bit tired”, which led to him taking the tee in a moment that could have looked incredibly foolish had it not come off. That’s for the ‘what if’ crowd.<\/p>\n

“I knew if I got an opportunity, I wasn’t gonna miss,” Reynolds said.<\/p>\n

Right-side kicks are traditionally tough for right-footed kickers as the natural hook tightens the angle, rather than widens it.<\/p>\n

But Reynolds’s first shot in a game since August 7 never looked like missing.<\/p>\n

Sweet off the boot, a slight curl left, then the timely straightening to sail through and over.<\/p>\n

He turned to the packed crowd in the city that has adopted him as Redfern did, delivered a subdued salute before scooping up his tee and letting out an almighty cry into the stands.<\/p>\n

His moment of redemption and glory was complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four years ago, the Penrith Panthers were on 14 as Adam Reynolds lined up a sideline conversion with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[18743,64,63,4428,761,762,158,4598,19095,159,85],"class_list":["post-175530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-adam-reynolds","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brisbane-broncos","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-penrith-panthers","tag-preliminary-final","tag-rugby-league","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175530","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=175530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}