If Reece Walsh was an NRL team all on his own, his five 40-20s this season would rank him third in the league.

Which makes Brisbane’s long-range kicking a potential grand final-winning weapon, when you consider Adam Reynolds’ boot is rated by no less than Immortal Andrew Johns as “good as any I have ever seen”.

The proof lies in Brisbane’s 11 40-20s this season, and the eight tries they’ve scored immediately afterwards.

No team has come close to Brisbane’s 11 game-changing kicks – regaining possession after finding touch in the opposition 20-metre zone, having kicked from their own 40 (hence 40-20) – in one season since the rule was introduced in 1997.

Cronulla’s eight in 2009 (with Todd Carney kicking five) and Manly’s eight in 2017 (when Blake Green booted five and Daly Cherry-Evan

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