'He had to go': LISTEN as The Continuous Call Team reacts to Walsh's head knock
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Oh, Rhys Walsh with a great... He's been knocked face over apex. But in the meantime, they've gone downfield now. It's Tabuai Fadou. He's beating one after another. He's brought down. Walsh is still down in back play. He was hit as he passed the ball. He won't be back. Here's the ball to Dearden. Dearden goes to the line, backing away from defenders. Rhys Walsh is out cold in back play. They'll play the ball back. The acting half goes back the other side. Nene, the Lindsay Collins...

on the fifth tackle. Long pass out the back. It's gone through the leg. Sees again it's been touched by someone. It's picked up by the winger. Murray Talangi, he's put down the tackle. Oh, Reece Walsh was hit high, I reckon, after he passed the ball. They'll play the ball. No, now he's on the signal time off. There's grave concern, Darrell. I'd need to see a replay, but I reckon as he passed it, he was hit high. What do you think? I agree. I want to see it. This might be a send-off here, Nats.

Sua Lee, he's hit him in the head with his shoulder. And it's a bad one. It's a bad one. He's come in, hit him with his shoulder, straight in the head.

I think it's a send-off. I can't disagree. I can't disagree. I think it's a send-off. What do you think, Piggy, on the Harvey Norman replay? Right in front of me. I've got no doubt he won't be on the field after the review here. Direct contact with the head. He was out. He was out. Two of the players, Carrigan, Benny Hunt, I think they were the players. They turned him on his side.

to sort of make sure he was okay, but he was out cold. All the medical staff with him now. There is some serious... He's got to go. He's got to go. Let's have a listen. Let's have a listen. Direct contact to the head with the shoulder. They're off. Yeah, he had to go. Direct contact to the head. No, he had to go. Jake Treboy, which is saying... Absolutely. I've got no argument with it. He got him high, and this poor kid is KO'd. He'll be going from the field. I don't think he'll come back.

He doesn't know where he is. Accor, Allianz or Suncorp. He's got no idea. And I say the referee had no option. I don't care whether it's Orig or not. You can't do that.

And so all of a sudden, the man going to rugby league in 2025, J.A. Suolihi, puts his side under tremendous pressure. He struck him in the head with his shoulder, a crushing blow, and one of their best players probably won't be back to participate, but it's 13 against 12. 13 against 12, it's gone seven and a half minutes, 6-0 Queensland. New South Wales will have the devil of a job from here on in. Absolutely, they will, but he had to go, Ray. I mean, he...

You can't hit him in the head with your shoulder. And that was fractionally late. I wouldn't say it was really late, but it was late enough. He passed the ball. As he walks off, he doesn't look all that bad, Reece Walsh, but, I mean, you'd think given the way he looked after he was hit initially and, you know, the force of the contact, you'd have to say he's in severe doubt to come back.