Reece Walsh has probably heard it all before.<\/p>\n
\u2018Show ponies\u2019 and \u2018stuck up\u2019 would be a fraction of the external noise that\u2019s reverberated around him and the Broncos this year.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old Brisbane fullback is aware he\u2019s not perfect and the manner in which he contributed to sealing the club\u2019s ninth grand final berth is testament to the work he\u2019s been doing to chase that goal, focused on the things people don\u2019t see.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat game (against Penrith) was probably one of those games where I didn\u2019t really do too much, but I was trying to be in position as much as I can off-the-ball\u2026 it\u2019s probably something you wouldn\u2019t see or wouldn\u2019t know, but we know in these four walls, (it\u2019s about) those little efforts,\u201d Walsh said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do a lot of video on other people where I can exploit their weakness and my weakness was and probably still is those small, little effort areas.<\/p>\n
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Walsh kicks a 40\/20<\/p>\n
“I feel like for myself to grow, I\u2019ve got to recognise where I need to get better and I\u2019ve got a lot of amazing people in and out of the club that are willing to give me a lot of good advice and I\u2019d be silly not to try to have a conversation and reach out and ask questions where I can get better.\u201d<\/p>\n
Walsh has risen to the challenge coach Michael Maguire set to be a better all-round player by increasing his work out of the backfield, improving his marshalling of the defensive line and positional play and generally adding the grit to his determination to turn around seemingly impossible situation, which lately has been reflected in those around him.<\/p>\n
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Maguire: Defensive resilience paying off<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really enjoying what we\u2019re building here at the club, new coach, new coaching staff, driving standards, driving those small, little things, everyone\u2019s buying in to the culture and everyone wants to get better,\u201d Walsh said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of talk around the Broncs that we\u2019re \u2018show ponies\u2019 and we don\u2019t want to work hard, all this and that, but it\u2019s until you\u2019re in these four walls that you see how hard we work, how much sacrifice we make for each other, for this club, because we all do genuinely care and we all want to do well, so it\u2019s really good to be a part of at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now with the lessons of the ill-fated 2023 grand final under his belt to boot and after basking in the rocking atmosphere of Suncorp Stadium last Sunday, he\u2019s more ready than ever to deliver something he has no recollection of happening as a four-year-old \u2013 a Broncos premiership.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo get to a grand final, I probably took for granted last time around, you know, not soaking up the week enough, probably not preparing my best, and I\u2019m just really grateful to be back in this arena because I definitely know how hard it is,\u201d Walsh said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reece Walsh has probably heard it all before. \u2018Show ponies\u2019 and \u2018stuck up\u2019 would be a fraction of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-178613","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\/178613","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=178613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}