The tortured Maroons five-eighth has become the torturer for NSW. And he has himself to thank.
Two days after the match, hooker Harry Grant was being interviewed on Matty Johns’ showJohns’ son Cooper, who plays at the Storm, was in the studio and asked Munster to explain what goes through his mind when he’s playing.“Yeah cymbals. That’s how I’m thinking. That’s me to a ‘T’. There’s not much to me, as you would know, Coops. Run hard, tackle hard, kick, get to the set position, you know what I do.
Billy Slater, his Queensland coach and former Storm teammate, laughs at the notion of Munster not putting much thought into how he plays. In his two decades at the Storm, Bellamy has enforced a hard rule about trick plays: “If you haven’t done it at training, don’t try it in a game”.“There are a couple of players who have been exceptions to that,” he says. “Billy was one, Munster the other. His strength is his instinct, but he plays up to that, too. There’s a lot of footy sense in that head. A lot of footy common-sense too. More than people think.
“Well, he didn’t have much choice,” Slater says, again chuckling. “There was only one spot at the back there.” With eyes wide open and cymbals clashing in his head, Munster will walk onto Optus Stadium on Perth on Sunday evening as the best player in the world. You can’t add enough Xs to the way he’s playing.
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