{"id":25147,"date":"2025-09-16T04:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T04:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/25147\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T04:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T04:38:13","slug":"michael-maguire-and-ben-hunt-support-reece-walsh-claims-over-comments-made-about-walshs-daughter-what-was-said-brisbane-broncos-rugby-league-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/25147\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Maguire and Ben Hunt support Reece Walsh, claims over comments made about Walsh\u2019s daughter, what was said, Brisbane Broncos, rugby league news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reece Walsh\u2019s coach and teammates have gone into bat for the superstar fullback after claims the fullback\u2019s middle finger gesture to Raiders supporters was in response to ugly comments made about his daughter. <\/p>\n

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Walsh was sin binned for a headbutt on Hudson Young and on his way to the sheds, gave the middle finger to the Canberra faithful<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, in a nasty twist, Channel 9 presenter Karl Stefanovic claimed on television that Walsh copped comments from some Raiders fans about his four-year-old daughter. <\/p>\n

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It has also been revealed by Code Sports <\/a>that some away supporters at Broncos games have also directed nasty comments at Walsh about his daughter.<\/p>\n

Broncos coach Michael Maguire says his star No. 1 unfairly \u201ccops a lot\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cUntil you see it and see what he goes through, he goes through quite a bit and I do feel for him,\u201d Maguire said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is part of the game. Reece unfortunately has to work his way through that which is unfair on him<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has copped a lot, but he is understanding how to manage it \u2026 That\u2019s the maturity part of Reece. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe enjoys family life and he\u2019s got his beautiful young daughter.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people don\u2019t see the great things he does in the background. Whenever the fans come to training, he finds time for them.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Sunday\u2019s Broncos and Raiders clash blew up when Walsh and Young had their run in, which resulted in both players being binned. <\/p>\n

Walsh\u2019s fiery reaction to Young\u2019s taunting was an overreaction, but as Broncos playmaker Ben Hunt explained on radio, the Raiders had been chipping away at the Brisbane fullback all game long.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were going at \u2018Walshy\u2019 the whole game, right from the kick-off,\u201d Hunt told radio station 4BC.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were chirping at him and trying to get under his skin and throwing him off his game \u2026 They were booing him the whole game, the players, the crowd were at him and at him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was probably a bit silly from Reece (to react to Young), but Hudson gets up in his face and is talking trash to him and you feel like you have to do something \u2026 I would say he regrets doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reece Walsh\u2019s coach and teammates have gone into bat for the superstar fullback after claims the fullback\u2019s middle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25476,25481,25486,25480,25479,25485,25473,25471,25475,17794,25484,111,139,69,25474,25478,22595,13905,25477,213,25483,13903,25482,25472],"class_list":["post-25147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-beautiful-young-daughter","tag-ben-hunt","tag-bench-call","tag-broncos-coach","tag-directed-nasty-comments","tag-family-life","tag-finger-gesture","tag-heated-sin-bin","tag-hudson","tag-karl-stefanovic","tag-michael-maguire","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-one-game-suspension","tag-patrick-carrigan","tag-payne-haas","tag-reece-walsh","tag-show-presenter","tag-sports","tag-superstar-fullback","tag-team-tips","tag-try-assists","tag-ugly-comments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}