{"id":600118,"date":"2026-04-11T13:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T13:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/600118\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T13:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T13:40:10","slug":"craig-bellamy-press-conference-harry-grant-melbourne-storm-vs-new-zealand-warriors-round-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/600118\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Bellamy press conference, Harry Grant, Melbourne Storm vs New Zealand Warriors, Round 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

A frustrated Craig Bellamy was furious with his side\u2019s defence after they were blown off the park in a 38-14 loss to the Warriors that marked their fourth defeat on the trot. <\/p>\n

Bellamy revealed the Storm spent most of their preparation for the game on their defence, but still missed 39 tackles and conceded five linebreaks and six tries in the humbling defeat that was the first in 17 games against the Warriors. <\/p>\n

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\u201cYeah hugely. We\u2019ve done a lot of work on our defence this week and may as well (have gone) to the pub and had a couple of beers,\u201d Bellamy said. <\/p>\n

However, Bellamy refused to put all the blame on his players and conceded he and his coaching staff need to also look in the mirror and make changes. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of things going wrong, so at the end of the day we all have got to have a good hard look at ourselves,\u201d Bellamy said. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just what the players are doing. Obviously some of the stuff we\u2019re doing in our preparation as coaches and me as a coach, we\u2019ve got to be part of it too. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to have a look at a lot of the things we\u2019re doing. We\u2019re probably doing similar to what we\u2019ve done the last five or six years, so perhaps we need a bit of a change up in a couple of things. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut the last couple of weeks have been hugely disappointing and hopefully we can get to the bottom of it.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Bellamy was pressed if some of his senior players are on notice after their fourth straight loss, which has them well outside the top eight. <\/p>\n

\u201cOn notice for what?\u201d Bellamy said. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think we all have got to take responsibility and if there\u2019s people not doing their jobs properly, well we need to make changes. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that\u2019s with staff as well as players, so it doesn\u2019t matter how old they are or young they are or whatever. We just need to get it right. We just need to make a few changes without a doubt and go from there.\u201d <\/p>\n

Storm skipper Harry Grant admitted the Warriors gave them a lesson in attitude and application, but still feels he has the team to turn things around. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think the Warriors were a desperate footy side and probably more desperate than us in the consistency of their game,\u201d Grant said. <\/p>\n

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\u201cThey turned up willing to do the basics of the game, run hard and tackle hard for much longer and through tougher periods of the game than us. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe were certainly in that contest and even towards the end of the game, like we were still fighting and probably chasing our tail a little bit too much towards the end. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut they showed us the real basics of the game to do them well and do them through adversity and that\u2019s something that we\u2019ve got to do again this week. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut we\u2019ve got a good preparation in training, so just keep focusing on that, get that right and then it\u2019s really important we transfer it to games.\u201d <\/p>\n

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The Storm have been uncharacteristically down on discipline this season and Grant conceded it is an area that needs addressing, but challenged his team to work harder on the back of penalties and mistakes. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s certainly become part of our game and every team will go through it,\u201d Grant said. \u201cIdeally, you don\u2019t want it. Ideally, individually, and as a team, we\u2019ve got to be better in certain areas to fix those penalties, errors, especially if they\u2019re dumb and avoidable, but we\u2019ve just got to be grittier to defend those. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re not going to go through a game without giving a penalty away or a six again, so they\u2019re pretty prominent in the game, but we have just got to be better at defending them. \u201cCertainly more disciplined individually, but then better as a team to turn up and do what\u2019s needed next.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A frustrated Craig Bellamy was furious with his side\u2019s defence after they were blown off the park in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[10748,64,63,19061,38151,291699,8089,292601,23622,8095,4415,4746,4466,761,762,2613,158,292600,668,85,53979,4534,4604],"class_list":{"0":"post-600118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-andrew-webster","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-coaching-staff","12":"tag-contract-statement","13":"tag-cowboys-star","14":"tag-craig-bellamy","15":"tag-desperate-footy-side","16":"tag-grant","17":"tag-harry-grant","18":"tag-james-tedesco","19":"tag-mark-st-john","20":"tag-melbourne-storm","21":"tag-national-rugby-league","22":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","23":"tag-new-zealand-warriors","24":"tag-nrl","25":"tag-preparation-training","26":"tag-press-conference","27":"tag-sports","28":"tag-storm-skipper","29":"tag-victor-radley","30":"tag-zealand-warriors"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600118","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=600118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}