Limited-time offer ><\/a><\/p>\nTrailing by two and the game in the final minute, Broncos centre Gehamet Shibasaki put the ball on the boot back inside to Walsh. <\/p>\n
The ball arrived to Eels fullback Joash Papalii first, but the youngster spilled it, with Walsh picking up the loose ball and crossing for a try which gave Brisbane the lead.<\/p>\n
Eels hold on to beat Broncos in THRILLER | 02:35<\/p>\n
However, replays showed Walsh was in front of Shibasaki when the centre put the kick in. <\/p>\n
\u201cReece Walsh is required to have both feet behind the ball and at the point of the kick he is front,\u201d the Bunker official said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWalsh is in front of Shibasaki \u2026 The Bunker has decided the game,\u201d Dan Ginnane said in commentary.<\/p>\n
Reece Walsh was clearly offside.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
The Broncos fullback blew up after the Bunker handed down their decision and was visibly upset. The Eels would then hold onto the ball for 40 seconds to wind down the clock. <\/p>\n
\u201cReece Walsh can light up the rugby league field like no one else. He has been rocks and diamonds this half and for a moment there, that was the diamond,\u201d Fox League\u2019s Cooper Cronk said.<\/p>\n
“We need to play for 80 minutes” | 04:25<\/p>\n
Even though the off-side call saved his bacon, Papalii was visibly upset after the full time buzzer sounded.<\/p>\n
\u201cJoash Papalii, good for him. He thought he cost his team the game. He\u2019s being hugged by teammates,\u201d Ginnane said.<\/p>\n
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Greg Alexander said he \u201cfelt sick\u201d for Papalii when the play unfolded.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlaying his first game at fullback for the club, he was fantastic but I thought he had lost that game for the Eels,\u201d Alexander said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Broncos have been cruelly denied an epic last ditch win over the Eels, after a Reece Walsh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-21345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21345","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=21345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}