The "secret weapon" Brissy have this time is Walsh. Melbourne are going to do everything they can to take him out of the game (probably literally knowing them), Munster practically gave up the ghost to the media during the week, so the Broncs need a game plan that finds a way to prevent that, or at least mitigate their efforts enough that he can still weave his magic effectively enough to win.
The key to that is in the front row. Haas, Carrigan and Flegler need to just roll the dice with the refs and bring the aggression hard. Pound Melbourne up the middle so hard they're too shellshocked and desperate to halt them that Walsh becomes a secondary concern.
The game plan can be Reyno.
When Reece isn't there he has easily been able to take over games... panthers round 1, warriors this year when everyone was out, dolphins at the Gabba, dogs at Belmore. All wins all without Walsh, but we had Reynolds.
If storm are too busy looking out the back for Walsh, then Reynolds needs to call an audible and take the ball for himself.
I think storm's gameplan will be rushing up on Walsh before he gets the ball... so there will be room for Cobbo on kicks in behind or cutout rainbow balls. If the centre is rushing up then that will leave Capewell or Riki 1v1 against the half.
Hell let's get Payne out wide and see if they want to rush up with Payne on Reynolds outside shoulder.
Reynolds guaranteeing that he could get Patty a try if he kept playing second row... and bang he does everything but put the ball down for him. When Reynolds goes into ball playing mode he can do things at will.
If Reynolds takes over the attack and plays both sides storm won't know what to do and Walsh would then be popping up as support player anyway... eventually it won't be known if the ball is staying with Reynolds or going to Walsh, so they won't be able to cheat up on Reece and he'll have space to cut them.
A Reynolds master class can get us a win tomorrow.
