{"id":399768,"date":"2026-04-27T10:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/399768\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:59:12","slug":"craig-bellamy-stands-down-from-coaching-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/399768\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Bellamy stands down from coaching role"},"content":{"rendered":"

Melbourne Storm<\/a> head coach Craig Bellamy<\/a> has backed out of his NSW Blues<\/a> coaching advisor role in Laurie Daley’s staff.<\/p>\n

Daley took over the Blues<\/a> for a second stint in charge last year after Michael Maguire<\/a> left the post just one year in to coach the Brisbane Broncos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A big part of Daley’s sell to the NSWRL board given his previous stint in charge brought with it little in the way of success was that he had Bellamy – widely rated as one of the game’s best coaches – in his corner.<\/p>\n

But Bellamy, per a News Corp report, has decided to stand down from the role for the 2026 series, having watched the Blues<\/a> come up short in 2025.<\/p>\n

That, despite the Blues<\/a> winning Game 1 of the series in enemy territory.<\/p>\n

The Blues<\/a> are yet to replace Bellamy’s role, and it’s believed the Melbourne Storm’s current losing streak had nothing to do with the decision which was made a number of weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Bellamy’s Storm have lost their last six games, the longest of his coaching career, with the Storm also in the worst ladder position they have ever held, following a blowout loss to the South Sydney Rabbitohs<\/a> on Saturday evening at home.<\/p>\n

Melbourne have lost six of their eight games so far this year and likely need to win at least 10 of their remaining 16 to be a chance of qualifying for the finals.<\/p>\n

In his NSW role, Bellamy was present at NSW camp if the Storm were in a bye week, and was also in the coaches box alongside Daley on game nights.<\/p>\n

It’s the second blow for Daley ahead of this year’s series, with Dean Young<\/a> also forfeiting his role recently after he became interim head coach of the St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a> following the sacking of Shane Flanagan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne Storm head coach Craig Bellamy has backed out of his NSW Blues coaching advisor role in Laurie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-399768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399768","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=399768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}