{"id":677354,"date":"2026-05-17T20:52:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T20:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/677354\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T20:52:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T20:52:25","slug":"nrl-news-2026-brisbane-broncos-fullback-reece-walsh-forced-off-with-hia-michael-maguire-reaction-magic-round-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/677354\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026: Brisbane Broncos fullback Reece Walsh forced off with HIA, Michael Maguire reaction, Magic Round, video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Broncos<\/a> coach Michael Maguire<\/a> will seek clarification from the NRL<\/a> after Reece Walsh<\/a> was forced off for a head injury assessment in a confusing moment on Sunday.<\/p>\n

In the 63rd minute of the Broncos’ Magic Round clash, won by the Warriors 42-12<\/a>, Walsh was ordered off the field after a collision with Warriors prop Mitch Barnett.<\/p>\n

However, the apparent impact wasn’t obvious to the Nine broadcast team and wasn’t serious enough for Brisbane to receive a penalty.<\/p>\n

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Walsh gave the independent doctor a gobful as he stormed off the field at Suncorp Stadium. He then passed the HIA and returned to play out the game.<\/p>\n

\"Reece<\/p>\n

Reece Walsh storms off.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

“That was strange,” Maguire said in his post-game press conference.<\/p>\n

“I mean, how do you not get a penalty when you’ve got to go off? He got hit in the head.<\/p>\n

“The game’s put a lot of good things in place around that at the moment.”<\/p>\n

Asked if he would speak to head office about the incident, Maguire confirmed he would.<\/p>\n

“Yeah,” he said, visibly frustrated after his team’s third consecutive defeat.<\/p>\n

Walsh struggled in his final audition for State of Origin I.<\/p>\n

Watch the 2026 NRL season live and free on Nine and 9Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The fullback finished with only 126 metres from 14 carries and he made three errors.<\/p>\n

He knocked the ball on taking a carry in the fourth minute, then put a goal-line drop-out over the sideline on the full in the sixth minute.<\/p>\n

News Corp reported prior to the game that Dolphins weapon Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow had beaten Walsh to the Queensland fullback spot for game one.<\/p>\n

The squads for the series opener will be revealed on Monday.<\/p>\n

“If I was picking the team, I’d pick Reece,” Maguire said when asked about the report.<\/p>\n

“I’m obviously pretty fond of what he’s capable of doing, and I get to see it every day.<\/p>\n

“He’s working hard, he’s doing things in the background, and I think no matter what happens with Reece … He knows he’s got to keep working hard at his game, and if he does that then those opportunities will come about at the right time.<\/p>\n

“He was up and about, ready to go, and if we’d done the things that we just spoke about \u2013 a bit of discipline and build a bit of pressure \u2013 then all of a sudden Reece could come alive in what he does. So we hurt ourselves today.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broncos coach Michael Maguire will seek clarification from the NRL after Reece Walsh was forced off for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-677354","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\/677354","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=677354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}