100m try stuns as Raiders beat Souths in epic despite Latrell Magic <\/a><\/p>\nCraig Bellamy gives Joe Chan a half time bake.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
It was a very uncharacteristic performance from the Storm. They had several chances to score but looked out of sorts near the Warriors\u2019 line. <\/p>\n
However, it\u2019ll be their defensive effort that will come under the spotlight. <\/p>\n
Cooper Cronk, who played under Bellamy for the majority of his storied career, says that while Melbourne could only manage 14 points, Bellamy will be focusing this week on the seven tries they conceded.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s going to look at the lack of movement from certain players in defence. He\u2019s not worried about the 14, he\u2019s worried about the 38,\u201d Cronk said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019ll look at it on a wide screen and see Munster and Grant being lazy. He\u2019s not going to go to the inexperienced guys, he\u2019s going to pick out the guys who should be leading the way.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019ll look through it from a defensive lens and see poor decision making, this player not moving up when they should be. There\u2019s a lot of areas he\u2019ll look at and it\u2019ll all be defensive.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cronk\u2019s comments led Johnson to again admit his surprise with Bellamy\u2019s half time spray.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what I found interesting with the Joe Chan move because he\u2019s been sound defensively and runs a great line with the ball but to put it one kid and if it\u2019s through a defensive lens, I was scratching my head over that,\u201d Johnson responded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a horror night for the Storm on Saturday, but no player had a worse few hours…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,292966,292962,11101,8089,11096,187155,292963,763,767,4492,292965,761,762,2613,158,97437,85,292589,292964,292967,74049,156099],"class_list":{"0":"post-601037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-back-rower","11":"tag-comments-led","12":"tag-cooper-cronk","13":"tag-craig-bellamy","14":"tag-daniel-nuttall","15":"tag-defensive-effort","16":"tag-defensive-lens","17":"tag-fox-league","18":"tag-horror-night","19":"tag-joe-chan","20":"tag-massive-spray","21":"tag-national-rugby-league","22":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","23":"tag-new-zealand-warriors","24":"tag-nrl","25":"tag-shaun-johnson","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-straight-defeat","28":"tag-time-spray","29":"tag-uncharasteric-performance","30":"tag-wide-screen","31":"tag-yvonne-sampson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601037","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=601037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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