{"id":719328,"date":"2026-06-06T16:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T16:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/719328\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T16:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T16:35:11","slug":"nrl-news-2026-brisbane-broncos-reece-walsh-struggles-in-loss-to-gold-coast-titans-coach-michael-maguire-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/719328\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026: Brisbane Broncos Reece Walsh struggles in loss to Gold Coast Titans; coach Michael Maguire comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reece Walsh<\/a> appeared to be carrying an injury during Brisbane\u2019s 28-23 loss to Gold Coast on Saturday night<\/a> but coach Michael Maguire<\/a> claimed he was not.<\/p>\n

There were a couple of glaring moments during the Suncorp Stadium match in which the superstar fullback appeared to be affected physically, as the Broncos<\/a> crashed to a fifth consecutive defeat.<\/p>\n

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Reece Walsh on Saturday night.\u00a0NRL Imagery<\/p>\n

Titans flyer Phillip Sami beat Walsh with ease to score a brilliant solo try in the 38th minute, with the last man in defence seemingly failing to lay a finger on the winger.<\/p>\n

And he again appeared to be worse for wear when Titans fullback Keano Kini chipped and regathered in the 77th minute, before racing away to score an incredible match-winning try.<\/p>\n

On the contrary, Walsh churned out 254 run metres and broke out of 10 tackles. <\/p>\n

\u201cNo, not really,\u201d Maguire said when asked if Walsh was playing injured.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s fine to get up and about.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, you\u2019ve got other moments in the game and he\u2019s coming up with some pretty spectacular plays.<\/p>\n

\u201c… It was literally a \u2018moment\u2019 game today. There were moments there where it could have rocked either way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked again later in the press conference if Walsh was playing injured, Maguire simply replied: \u201cNup.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walsh had a heated argument<\/a> with teammate Jack Gosiewski after a try scored by Titans winger Phillip Sami late in the first half.<\/p>\n

Queensland State of Origin coach Billy Slater made the stunning decision to not pick Walsh for game one<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He may decide to pick the Clive Churchill Medallist on his six-man bench for the June 17 clash in Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reece Walsh appeared to be carrying an injury during Brisbane\u2019s 28-23 loss to Gold Coast on Saturday night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-719328","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\/719328","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=719328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}