Sign up now!!! <\/a><\/p>\nRyles: ‘Got what we deserved there!’ | 05:32<\/p>\n
\u201cI think if you\u2019re that good with your ball control this early in the season, I think that goes a long way to helping you to get the result that you want.\u201d <\/p>\n
The win extended Bellamy\u2019s winning record in Round 1 to 23 games, with the Storm having not lost a first up fixture since 2001 and Grant admitted it was in the back of the players\u2019 minds. <\/p>\n
\u201cYeah for sure I think to be fair it was probably spoken about a little bit because it was gonna be there as a bit of noise and at the end of the day it\u2019s just an outcome of how we perform, how we prepare and ultimately the work you do in the pre-season,\u201d Grant said. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou get a chance to showcase it but I think yeah the playing group really respects it and at the end of the day there\u2019s a lot of old boys sitting at home watching knowing that they\u2019ve contributed to that as a part of the history of the club. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhether you call it a record or a streak whatever but you know there\u2019s plenty of people that have played a part in that and hopefully they can be pretty proud that it\u2019s still rolling and they\u2019ve contributed over the years.\u201d <\/p>\n
Joe Chan stands over ex-teammate Pezet! | 00:26<\/p>\n
Fullback Sua Fa\u2019alogo impressed with a classy double in his first game of the season since taking over from Ryan Papenhuyzen and Grant was full of praise for the young No.1. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think he had a really good performance and I think the one thing I was pleased with Sua\u2019s game and we were speaking on the run that he probably didn\u2019t get a lot of his natural game on early but we\u2019ve seen it come to life at the end there,\u201d Grant said. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe probably had involvements in different ways early in the game he didn\u2019t touch the ball as much and that was just the way that the game went, but I think he was nice and patient and disciplined with his game and channelled the energy to the right areas and got some rewards at the end there. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut I can\u2019t speak highly enough of him and the way he\u2019s attacked his pre-season like Craig said he\u2019s seen an opportunity there. <\/p>\n
Controversial sin bin in first minute! | 00:30<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s come in every day with the right mindset and you know fingers crossed as a team we can benefit from that, but if he\u2019s doing the little things well bringing effort to his game as a fullback then that\u2019ll set up some of the X-Factor and the exciting things that people like to see.\u201d <\/p>\n
Bellamy also paid tribute to the Storm\u2019s two debutants, who stepped up in the big win. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe had two debutants there tonight in Cooper Clarke and Preston Conn, I thought Preston didn\u2019t play a real long time, but I thought they did a really good job, both really impressive kids and they work hard. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou can see just in their families they came down and how excited the day worse. So for them being excited like that, to be playing their first game for the Storm, I think the boys really took that on board. We were very intent on playing our best footy tonight and we went close to that.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig Bellamy couldn\u2019t resist a cheeky dig at skipper Harry Grant after he put aside injury fears in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[28078,19974,259654,64,63,86897,259655,3193,21871,259657,259658,259603,259656,23622,259659,4492,27285,27699,4746,4466,22326,761,762,45738,259653,158,3590,668,174140,159022,8088,85,259599,144223],"class_list":{"0":"post-520393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-alec-macdonald","9":"tag-andrew-voss","10":"tag-aside-injury-fears","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-ball-control","14":"tag-bringing-effort","15":"tag-cameron-smith","16":"tag-cheeky-dig","17":"tag-coach-craig-bellamy","18":"tag-completion-rates","19":"tag-controversial-sin-bin","20":"tag-epic-performance","21":"tag-grant","22":"tag-interesting-comparison","23":"tag-joe-chan","24":"tag-jonah-pezet","25":"tag-leg-injury","26":"tag-mark-st-john","27":"tag-melbourne-storm","28":"tag-mitchell-moses","29":"tag-national-rugby-league","30":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","31":"tag-natural-game","32":"tag-no-9","33":"tag-nrl","34":"tag-opening-set","35":"tag-press-conference","36":"tag-preston-conn","37":"tag-score-line","38":"tag-sin-bin","39":"tag-sports","40":"tag-storm-concerns","41":"tag-winning-record"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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