An hour after the madness that was, Reece Walsh has a wobble in his voice and a glint in his eye.

He is literally underground in the bowels of GIO Stadium. He’s headbutted Hudson Young. Flipped off the Canberra masses on his way from the field . Then turned around and broken 25,523 lime green hearts with one of the finest individual performances in recent memory.

You do a double take when Broncos coach Michael Maguire praises Walsh’s maturity. He has just headbutted Hudson Young and flipped the crowd off.

Yet in the wake of Brisbane’s 94-minute, 29-28 triumph over Canberra , Walsh is on the phone to his four-year-old daughter Leila - hence the wobble in his voice and glint in his eye.

Maturity comes in many shapes, especially when it comes to Walsh - the 23-year-old superstar able

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