{"id":601349,"date":"2026-04-12T04:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T04:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/601349\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T04:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T04:07:09","slug":"legends-big-issue-with-brutal-bellamy-spray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/601349\/","title":{"rendered":"Legend\u2019s big issue with brutal Bellamy spray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a horror night for the Storm on Saturday, but no player had a worse few hours than Melbourne forward Joe Chan, who copped a massive spray from coach Craig Bellamy before being benched.<\/p>\n<p>Watch every game of every round of the NRL Premiership LIVE with no ad-breaks during play on FOX LEAGUE, available on Kayo Sports | <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kayosports.com.au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chan had a tough outing, committing three errors and exposed in defence during the <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-premiership\/nrl-2026-live-updates-melbourne-storm-vs-new-zealand-warriors-round-6-teams-how-to-watch-harry-grant-tanah-boyd-roger-tuivasasheck\/news-story\/ab9a36599a67b3df83bf27ecb59c6715\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Storm\u2019s shock 38-14 loss at home to the Warriors.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At half time, Fox League cameras captured Bellamy giving the back rower a dressing down in the sheds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was the whipping boy tonight. He copped it from Bellamy and his teammates and he was dejected,\u201d Yvonne Sampson said on Fox League\u2019s Super Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Chan was ordinary but he wasn\u2019t alone, as several players failed to fire in the heavy loss \u2013 the Storm\u2019s fourth straight defeat.<\/p>\n<p>While Chan was in Bellamy\u2019s sights at halftime, Warriors legend Shaun Johnson insisted he wasn\u2019t the only one well of their game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Chan was the scapegoat tonight. Those pictures don\u2019t look good,\u201d Johnson said on Fox League. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been in a similar position where it\u2019s just not clicking for you and you try harder but it snowballs and it becomes worse and you think on the sideline wondering if I\u2019m the only reason for the team\u2019s poor performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut he wasn\u2019t the only reason. He wasn\u2019t alone. It was right across the board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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<p>However, it\u2019ll be their defensive effort that will come under the spotlight. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"poster-img\" src=\"https:\/\/content.api.news\/v3\/images\/bin\/5333985523147c664eccf9bfc0946813\" data-sctrack=\"op-poster-img\" alt=\"'Comical' moment ends NRL match\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>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<p>\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<p>\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<p>\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<p>Cronk\u2019s comments led Johnson to again admit his surprise with Bellamy\u2019s half time spray.<\/p>\n<p>\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<p>Originally published as <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-premiership\/nrl-2026-storm-forward-joe-chan-cops-huge-spray-from-craig-bellamy-what-did-he-say-shaun-johnson-calls-joe-chan-the-scapegoat-storm-v-warriors-news-reaction\/news-story\/6d0c184a5b44adb7091407e83f3f4d58\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Doesn\u2019t look good\u2019: Legend\u2019s big issue with brutal Bellamy spray<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read related topics:<a class=\"topic_tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/topics\/melbourne\" data-tgev-container=\"story-topic-links\" data-tgev-label=\"Melbourne\" data-tgev-order=\"1\" data-tgev-metric=\"npv\" data-tgev=\"event10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a horror night for the Storm on Saturday, but no player had a worse few hours&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,292966,447,292962,11101,8089,11096,187155,292963,134,763,767,4492,292965,2613,97437,292589,292964,292967,74049,156099],"class_list":{"0":"post-601349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-back-rower","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-comments-led","13":"tag-cooper-cronk","14":"tag-craig-bellamy","15":"tag-daniel-nuttall","16":"tag-defensive-effort","17":"tag-defensive-lens","18":"tag-entertainment","19":"tag-fox-league","20":"tag-horror-night","21":"tag-joe-chan","22":"tag-massive-spray","23":"tag-new-zealand-warriors","24":"tag-shaun-johnson","25":"tag-straight-defeat","26":"tag-time-spray","27":"tag-uncharasteric-performance","28":"tag-wide-screen","29":"tag-yvonne-sampson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601349","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=601349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}