Broncos superstar Reece Walsh has vowed to continue searching for the killer play, despite being on the receiving end of extensive criticism for his rocks or diamonds approach.

Without their marquee halves pairing in Adam Reynolds and Ezra Mam, Brisbane needed an emphatic response from their livewire fullback to keep their fading top-four hopes alive.

He answered the call and cried to the naysayers that his side’s premiership hopes were far from over, during his side’s 38-28 Battle of Brisbane triumph over the Dolphins.

So dynamic at his best, and displaying a gamut of errors at his worst, Walsh was by far the former, with each of his highlight plays coming as the Broncos’ Redcliffe-based rivals threatened to run away with the contest in the absence of Reynolds and Mam (hamstring injuries).

Crucially, the 22-year-old’s lone mistake came from a moment of Kodi Nikorima quick thinking, as the Dolphins’ five-eighth put his foot into touch to turn a kick-off out on the full.

And while pundits have scrutinised Walsh’s tendency to overplay his hand – having committed 113 errors in 51 Broncos appearances – the man himself refused to go into his shell to appease the sceptics.

“It would be pretty easy for me to shy away and not want to put my hand up, but I feel if I ever did that, it would be a dishonour to myself to let someone else do that, sit back and not chase the game,” Walsh said after his Man of the Match performance.

“I’ve just got to keep working on my process, doing my job, and I’ll take whatever criticism it is if I’m trying to be the best teammate I can.

“I’m just trying to narrow my mindset and do my job for the boys. If I asked Patty........

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