Storm coach Craig Bellamy conceded his aspect “got what we deserved” after they coughed up a 14-point result in lose 34-16 to the Panthers.
Melbourne had management for the primary half an hour of the sport, scoring two tries and forcing their opposition to make uncharacteristic errors.
But a penalty attempt to Stephen Crichton within the thirty first minute opened the floodgates for Penrith and so they ran in two extra earlier than half time earlier than including one other three after the break.
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“We sort of just stopped doing the things we were doing earlier,” Bellamy mentioned.
“We stopped competing in some areas and we paid the price.
“They have been the top team in the competition for three years and they haven’t got there by luck.
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“When we gave them an opportunity they just took it and we took the foot off again and for that last 55 minutes we hardly got down their end.
“We got what we deserved tonight and we need to learn from that and hopefully move on.”
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The Storm’s crumble got here after a red-hot begin the place Christian Welch regarded like a person on a mission and Nelson Asofa-Solomona was proving to be an actual handful on the appropriate edge.
They additionally had deal with of the Panthers’ elusive again.
“We knew we had to do a good job on them if we were going to beat them,” Bellamy mentioned of the battle of the again fives.
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“In the first 25 minutes we did do a good job on their back three, we reduced their metres and I think the whole game we did a reasonable job on them.
“But we just lost field position and kept making errors and gave away seven tackle sets and dropping the ball on the first tackle. I don’t know how many times we did that.
“We gave away a lot of penalties and six against as well. It just all dissolved after 25 minutes.
“They’re too good a side to play like they did for the last 55 minutes and expect to stay in the game.”
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Star five-eighth Cameron Munster returned to the line-up after lacking Round 17 as a result of an sickness. But even his injection couldn’t encourage a win.
Bellamy agreed that Munster had quiet night time — he completed with 62 operating metres, two sort out busts and 23 tackles however zero strive assists or linebreak assists.
“He’d be disappointed with how he played tonight I imagine,” he mentioned.
“But the standards are pretty high for him, he sets his standards high and we’re expecting that all the time. But he did have a tough week sickness-wise.
“It looked like after that first 25 minutes that our spine didn’t really combine. They looked like they sort of lost each other and got isolated.”
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