It’s Michael Maguire’s greatest triumph. The rebuilding and rewiring of one of the biggest NRL stars we’ve seen, Reece Walsh.

The game has had big stars, plenty of them, but nothing like this. This is the social media age, the Instagram and TikTok eras, where everything is magnified and multiplied.

And right at the top of the heap of this modern style pop culture is Reece Walsh .

His Clive Churchill Medal-winning performance in Sunday’s grand final win over Melbourne, the game’s biggest stage, will go down in folklore and send his stardom into the stratosphere.

His try in the 31st minute, where he took on seven defenders and beat them with speed and strength, has to go into the top handful ever scored in a decider. All the way back to 1908.

As these pages labelled him after the mira

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