Reece Walsh locks in NRL future, signs $5 million deal

Reece Walsh has yet extended his enactment astatine the Broncos aft months of speculation, with the livewire fullback signing a caller four-year woody that volition support him successful Brisbane until the extremity of the 2029 season.

The 22-year-old would’ve been the astir sought aft escaped cause connected Friday but has present secured his semipermanent aboriginal connected a woody worthy a reported $4.4 million, with reports arsenic aboriginal arsenic March that he’d signed the biggest woody successful nine history.

Walsh is 1 of the astir freakishly talented players successful the NRL, with the flashy fullback guiding the Broncos to the expansive last a twelvemonth agone successful his archetypal play with the nine aft a mates of campaigns with the Warriors.

His speed, footwork and passing crippled marque him 1 of the toughest players to handle, and his determination to perpetrate to the nine until 2029 is simply a immense triumph for caller manager Michael Maguire who has to walk his archetypal week successful complaint dealing with the ongoing Ezra Mam drama.

Walsh present has the accidental to go the look of the mega nine which has been starved of occurrence successful caller years and hasn’t won a rubric since 2006.

“It’s a peculiar spot present astatine the Broncos and I’m decidedly blessed to beryllium staying present astatine the nine with each my mates – it’s a bully day,” helium said.

“I’ve wanted to play for the Broncos since I was a small kid, truthful I’m conscionable truly excited to beryllium present and looking guardant to getting into pre-season and Round 1.

“I privation to beryllium idiosyncratic who works hard, idiosyncratic who brings success, idiosyncratic who helps bring premierships to this large club, but archetypal of each I’ve got to beryllium a bully idiosyncratic disconnected the field, a caring dad, a bully relation exemplary and I’ve got to enactment hard connected my footy.

“I’ve had a fewer conversations with Madge (Maguire) and hard enactment is 1 happening helium touches connected a batch – I can’t hold to beryllium astir the boys again and get stuck into it together.

“As a subordinate you privation to triumph and being a portion of the Broncos that is expected, it’s a monolithic nine with astonishing members and fans, and astonishing radical moving astatine the nine arsenic good arsenic each our families, truthful you’re playing for much than conscionable yourself.

“We didn’t person the champion twelvemonth past twelvemonth and we are each looking guardant to getting backmost successful and moving truly hard for each different and getting the Broncos backmost to wherever the nine deserves to be.”

Walsh was restricted to conscionable 14 appearances past play and suffered a sickening caput sound erstwhile helium was clobbered precocious by Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii conscionable 7 minutes into the State of Origin opener.

But he’s already been hard astatine enactment astatine grooming and volition beryllium the astir important cog successful their onslaught if they are to instrumentality to the finals aft finishing 12th which yet outgo Kevin Walters his occupation arsenic coach.

Walsh is the astir marketable subordinate successful the crippled and has a immense pursuing connected societal media, with fans waiting hours aft the crippled to get his autograph oregon immoderate of his playing gear.

“It’s terrific quality that Reece has recommitted to our nine - he’s surely proven himself to beryllium an breathtaking subordinate with plentifulness of potential,” Broncos main enforcement Dave Donaghy said.

“We’re arrogant of however Reece has grown from our Broncos Academy programme up into our NRL roster and the State of Origin arena arsenic well.

“Reece would person been successful precocious demand, but helium has present locked down his semipermanent aboriginal and he’ll play an important relation successful the team.”