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Reg and Reece: Why flashy Kangaroos star is the best player since Gasnier

Roy Masters Sports Columnist November 10, 2025 — 7.30am Advertisement

Reece Walsh is the best player since the Immortal Reg Gasnier, according to John Riley, who was centre partner to the “Magic Dragon” during the period St George won 11 successive premierships.

Hundreds of champion rugby league players have taken the field in the 60 years since Gasnier retired, meaning the rare praise of Riley, also a Kangaroo, for a fullback from the modern era must be highly respected.

The fact that Walsh paints his fingernails, collects luxury designer handbags, drank from a toilet bowl and swan dives when scoring a try means little to the 86-year-old, whose only work with a brush was

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