Manly have stunned old rivals Melbourne 18-16 in a dramatic and fiery clash at AAMI Park, ending the Storm’s six-game winning run.<\/p>\n
Ahead 16-6 with less than 20 minutes remaining, the Sea Eagles’ lead was wiped out following two Xavier Coates tries.<\/p>\n
But with two minutes left and scores tied, Storm captain Harry Grant was penalised for making contact with the legs of Luke Brooks while the Manly ace was attempting a field goal.<\/p>\n
Reuben Garrick made no mistake with his kick from directly in front to put the visitors two points up.<\/p>\n
In their first win in Melbourne since 2019, the Sea Eagles capitalised on a slow, sloppy start from the Storm to set up their third-straight victory.<\/p>\n
The players have a disagreement\u00a0Graham Denholm\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
For just the second time this season, Melbourne conceded more than 12 points in the first half as Manly went to the break up 16-6.<\/p>\n
Storm coach Craig Bellamy unleashed a fearsome halftime spray on his players following the slow start.<\/p>\n
Their errors in the first half were completely uncharacteristic, frustrating Bellamy as he marched out of the coach’s box multiple times.<\/p>\n
Manly travelled south up for the fight.<\/p>\n
Just minutes after coming on in the first half, Sea Eagle Jake Simpkin was placed on report for a dangerous tackle on Grant Anderson.<\/p>\n
Simpkin avoided being sin-binned, but Anderson was forced from the field for a HIA.<\/p>\n
Melbourne were out for retribution, with enforcer Nelson Asofa-Solomona throwing his elbow back in a tackle from Simpkin, collecting him in the head.<\/p>\n
Asofa-Solomona’s rush of blood proved costly, as it came in the same play captain Harry Grant crossed for a try just before halftime.<\/p>\n
But the four-pointer was overturned, leading Bellamy furious.<\/p>\n
Coates was the shining light in Melbourne’s first home loss of the season, finishing with the ninth hat-trick of his career.<\/p>\n
The result moved Manly to 9-8 this season and back into the top eight ahead of another blockbuster clash next Sunday with Canterbury.<\/p>\n
The Storm have just five days to back up before facing the Sydney Roosters at Allianz Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manly have stunned old rivals Melbourne 18-16 in a dramatic and fiery clash at AAMI Park, ending the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-5817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817","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=5817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}