After the headbutt came the phone call to Melbourne’s Olympic Park headquarters.

Once the Raiders had been vanquished and 94 minutes of Reece Walsh’s match-winning madness had finally settled.

Once the NRL hit the Broncos star with a contentious $3000 fine for headbutting Hudson Young (along with another $1800 for giving Canberra fans the finger), Walsh dialled south.

For the past 18 months, the NRL’s most magnetic player has put increasing stock in his weekly work with respected Melbourne sports psychologist Jacqui Louder, who he first linked with after a 2023 ban for referee abuse.

Louder was the Storm’s long-time psychologist until the start of this year, helped Cameron Munster through his off-field issues and still works out of the same Melbourne precinct the grand finalists c

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