Melbourne Storm coach Craig Bellamy has delivered a brutal evaluation of his facet’s efficiency throughout their 18-Eight loss to the Sea Eagles on Friday evening, and questioned what “planet” two of his gamers have been on.
Storm gamers Tui Kamikamica and Justin Olam each hit Manly halfback Daly Cherry-Evans late within the second half, with the pair despatched to the sin-bin and positioned on report throughout a pricey interval for the Storm.
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Bellamy fired up after the loss and was left annoyed by the poor conduct that left his crew right down to 12 males twice within the second half.
“To maintain them (Manly) to 18 factors was in all probability a superb effort, we simply by no means gave ourselves an opportunity to win the sport,” Bellamy stated through the post-game press convention.
“Particularly our second half was actually poor, we did not play too sensible in any respect… I do not know what planet they’re on, you simply cannot do this lately.
“You possibly can’t hit ball gamers and halves late with any pressure in any respect and that is what it’s and to try this, we performed half of the second half with 12 males.
“That is exhausting work after which once they had 12 males we could not get out of our 20, like I stated we did not play sensible in any respect.”
One other ‘Battle of Brookvale’ produced a recreation filled with drama, that includes 5 HIAs, six reviews, three sin-bins and quite a few massive hits from either side – with former rugby league exhausting man Gorden Tallis calling one the “shot of the 12 months”.
Storm heart Olam ran the ball exhausting and charged into the Sea Eagles protection when he was folded in half in a bone-crunching sort out by Manly ahead Haumole Olakau’atu.
“There’s been numerous heavy collisions within the first half… it isn’t with their fists, it is with their shoulders,” Tallis stated throughout commentary on Fox League.
“That shot is the shot of the 12 months to date, Olam is such a tough man to sort out, ten instances out of ten he wins the collision, that point he did not.”
“You not often see the timing when two gamers go low like they did and hit the participant concurrently on both facet,” rugby league nice Greg Alexander added.
“Olam is a tough man to harm, however they clearly stung him.”
Following the collision, Olam was left surprised and left the sphere for a HIA.
After an inconsistent begin to the season, Storm captain Christian Welch believes his facet took a step backwards in opposition to the Sea Eagles and was unimpressed with their effort, labeling it as “silly s**t”.
“It was fairly clunky I suppose, however you come throughout a crew with Daly Cherry-Evans, Tom Trbojevic, these stylish gamers and we preserve doing silly s**t,” Welch stated through the post-game press convention.
“The competitors’s too shut, there’s too many good groups… two blokes within the bin, it is actually exhausting to beat these high quality groups.
“You simply put your self up in opposition to it by doing actually silly issues.
“It’s actually disappointing that we appear to have gone a bit backwards about how we now have gone about our footy.”
– With AAP
