Sign up now!!!<\/a><\/p>\nStorm concede 50 in 23-year first | 03:11<\/p>\n
The Storm had their chances at 10-6 and hot on attack early in the game, but they conceded two back-to-back tries against the run of play to open the floodgates. <\/p>\n
Storm skipper Harry Grant felt his team need to stay tight and focus on where they can improve. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s where we need to be better,\u201d Grant said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got them in a good position to score points and probably looked to chase the points too much there and regardless, we\u2019ve got them in a good position in their end and then they go down the other end and score tries. <\/p>\n
‘Who can actually beat Penrith?’ | 01:23<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s not good enough. We need to fix that and regardless of who you\u2019re playing, if that\u2019s what they\u2019re doing, it\u2019s going to be a tough night for you. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo we need to look in the mirror and look at us before we\u2019re looking at opposition teams.\u201d <\/p>\n
In the highlight of the night for the Storm, Grant ran onto the field draped in a Fijian flag in tribute to teammate Tui Kamikamica, who suffered a medical episode during the week. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was actually Eliesa Katoa, so he had the idea of Tui and all our thoughts are with Tui and him at home,\u201d Grant said. <\/p>\n
NSW Bound? McLean slices through Storm | 00:42<\/p>\n
\u201cHe thought of him sitting at home watching it, that would be a good little touch. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think if anyone\u2019s seen before the game, Eliesa was out there doing some fitness before the game when we were warming up. <\/p>\n
\u201cI know those two guys are thick as thieves and best of buddies and they\u2019re going through a bit of a tough time at the moment. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut everyone at the club and everyone in the game are supporting them and it was just a little show of support, so hopefully Tui enjoyed that at home.\u201d <\/p>\n
However, Bellamy couldn\u2019t resist the last word on the tribute in a fierce warning to his players ahead of a tough week of training. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe wouldn\u2019t have enjoyed the rest of it,\u201d Bellamy said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig Bellamy threatened to get tougher on his players and warned they face being dropped to reserve grade…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[190659,32686,39829,190662,181401,2347,50390,8061,9492,111,139,69,172984,172972,9486,190660,346,190663,190664,213,50385,189319,190661],"class_list":{"0":"post-362377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-brain-surgeon","9":"tag-casey-mclean","10":"tag-craig-bellamy","11":"tag-disappointing-thing","12":"tag-fletch-hindy","13":"tag-grant","14":"tag-harry-grant","15":"tag-mark-st-john","16":"tag-melbourne-storm","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-opposition-teams","21":"tag-penalty-count","22":"tag-penrith-panthers","23":"tag-points-scored","24":"tag-press-conference","25":"tag-reserve-grade","26":"tag-score-tries","27":"tag-sports","28":"tag-storm-skipper","29":"tag-tui-kamikamica","30":"tag-young-blokes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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