Tick, tick, tick ...

Speak to those on the fringes and they will tell you it was only a matter of time. As electrifying as Cameron Munster is on the field, you could set your watch to the moment he was going to blow up off it.

At the crossroads: Cameron Munster of the Storm. Credit:AAP

The running joke is opposition defences can train many sets of eyes on him to curb his mesmerising influence on the field, but his own employers can never have enough sets of eyes to curb his equally damaging influence off it.

Which is why allegations he was involved in an altercation with Kangaroos and Queensland teammate Ben Hunt during the World Cup-winning campaign, during their stay in Darwin for the quarter final, shocked many but also shocked few.