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Bellamy said he was \u201csurprised\u201d by Slater\u2019s call to end his Maroons coaching tenure.<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t spoken to Billy about that, or why, but Billy is a guy that knows what he wants and what he doesn\u2019t want,\u201d the Storm mentor said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s made the decision and that\u2019s the right decision for him and his family, so we\u2019ll back that up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bellamy said Slater would \u201cdo a great job\u201d as Storm coach, but other candidates, including his three current assistants \u2013 Marc Brentnall, Aaron Bellamy and Ryan Hinchcliffe \u2013 would also handle the task.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019d do good job too,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019ll be up to the hierarchy to decide that, and I\u2019d imagine I\u2019ll be asked my opinion.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d like to see the next head coach come from our club because I think they can handle it. I\u2019d like to the club go that way, but the final decision won\u2019t be mine.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Storm, who is set to miss the finals for the first time in 16 years, host second-placed Penrith at AAMI Park on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey probably are the team to beat (for the premiership) with the experiences that they\u2019ve had,\u201d Bellamy said of the Panthers, who won four successive NRL grand finals from 2021 to 2024 before falling a week short of the decider last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cPenrith have got used to winning over the last five or six years.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne coach Craig Bellamy wants a Storm man to be his successor, whether it\u2019s Billy Slater or someone…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-573607","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\/573607","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=573607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}