Storm coach Craig Bellamy has slammed his facet’s efficiency and questioned what “planet” Tui Kamikamica and Justin Olam have been on.
The Melbourne pair each hit Manly halfback Daly Cherry-Evans late within the second half, spending 10 minutes on the sideline.
Their absence helped the Sea Eagles safe a hard-fought 18-8 victory to bounce again after a flogging by the hands of the reigning premiers in Round 6.
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Bellamy believes his facet shot themselves within the foot and by no means allowed themselves into the competition, lamenting Olam and Kamikamica’s choices to hit their opposing halfback late.
“To keep them to 18 points was probably a good effort, we just never game ourselves a chance to win the game,” Bellamy stated within the post-match press convention.
“Especially our second half was really poor, we didn’t play too smart at all… I don’t know what planet they’re on, you just can’t do that these days.
“You can’t hit ball players and halves late with any force at all and that’s what it is and to do that, we played half of the second half with 12 men.
“That’s hard work and then when they had 12 men we couldn’t get out of our 20, like I said we didn’t play smart at all.
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“We’ve had two good weeks, we’ve been really good, thinking about our footy, but tonight we got what we deserved.”
Bellamy additionally refused to criticise the referee Adam Gee after he despatched three gamers to the sin bin all through the competition and likewise put 5 on report.
“I don’t want to discuss that, that’s not my business, at the end of the day there’s other people making the rules,” Bellamy stated.
“That’s their job, my job is to coach the footy team.”
Melbourne skipper Christian Welch believes his facet took a giant step backwards.
The Storm went right down to the Bulldogs in Round 2 and the Titans in Round 3, making constant and sloppy errors at hand their opponents victory.
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Bellamy’s facet bounced again within the following weeks with wins over the Tigers, Rabbitohs and Roosters, delivering full performances.
Many pundits believed the Storm have been again in competition for the title, however after extra “stupid” errors, Welch defined it’s again to the drafting board.
“It was pretty clunky I guess, but you come across a team with Daly Cherry-Evans, Tom Trbojevic, these classy players and we keep doing stupid shit,” Welch stated.
“The competition’s too close, there’s too many good teams… two blokes in the bin, it’s really hard to beat these quality teams.
“You just put yourself up against it by doing really stupid things.
“It is really disappointing that we seem to have gone a bit backwards about how we have gone about our footy.”
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