{"id":6787,"date":"2025-07-19T21:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T21:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/6787\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T21:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T21:04:09","slug":"melbourne-storm-defeated-by-manly-sea-eagles-craig-bellamy-reaction-press-conference-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/6787\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Storm defeated by Manly Sea Eagles, Craig Bellamy reaction, press conference comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Storm<\/a> coach Craig Bellamy<\/a> was extremely disappointed with his side’s performance in their 18-16 upset loss to the Sea Eagles in Melbourne on Saturday night<\/a>, questioning the effort of his players.<\/p>\n

Succumbing to the Sea Eagles during the club’s old boys’ day, Bellamy accused the group of looking for a “soft performance”.<\/p>\n

“For me, on old boys’ day, to go out and pay like that, is just disappointing,” Bellamy said during his post-match press conference.<\/p>\n

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\"Craig<\/p>\n

Craig Bellamy did not mince his words in his post-match presser following the Storm’s loss to the Sea Eagles.\u00a0NRL<\/p>\n

“It’s not what we’re about as a club or a team, looking for shortcuts.”<\/p>\n

The Sea Eagles stifled a late comeback from the Storm.<\/p>\n

While winger Xavier Coates finished the match with a hat-trick, key penalties against Harry Grant and Nelson Asofa-Solomona \u2014 including a disallowed try because of the hulking prop’s dangerous contact that concussed Jake Simpkin \u2014 proved costly.<\/p>\n

Conversely, Manly capitalised on these errors and their own scoring opportunities, ultimately securing a penalty goal after Luke Brooks’ leg was interfered with in the dying moments.<\/p>\n

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Asked if he was frustrated with the ill discipline and errors in the Storm’s game, Bellamy did not hide his displeasure.<\/p>\n

“I’m not sure frustrating is the right word,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I was really disappointed with the way we played, how we started.<\/p>\n

“It looked like we were looking for shortcuts straight away.<\/p>\n

“We know that doesn’t work for our game, we know that doesn’t work in life. But we were looking for shortcuts, the easy options.<\/p>\n

“If you want something in life, you need to work hard for it; it’s the same in a game of footy.<\/p>\n

“But we weren’t willing to do that early, and it cost us in the end.”<\/p>\n

Bellamy put the team’s struggles down to their poor completion rate compared to that of the Sea Eagles, saying it’s “hard to be competitive” when you put yourself under such circumstances.<\/p>\n

Probed about the first-half incident which saw the Storm disallowed a try after Asofa-Solomona was punished for foul play, Bellamy kept tight-lipped.<\/p>\n

“I’ve got an opinion but I ain’t going to say it,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Storm coach Craig Bellamy was extremely disappointed with his side’s performance in their 18-16 upset loss to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-6787","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\/6787","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=6787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}