Brutal truth superstar duo can\u2019t escape in GF fail as Hughes stuns<\/a><\/p>\nHarry Grant and Craig Bellamy.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd they\u2019ll be doubled down on in our pre-season and hopefully we can have a good season next year.\u201d <\/p>\n
Bellamy was asked to sum up his emotions, but was classy in conceding the better team won. <\/p>\n
\u201cDisappointment, obviously, losing Grand Final is hard, but you sort of console yourself a little bit with Grand Finals are hard to get to and obviously they are hard to win as well,\u201d Bellamy said. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo congratulate the boys on having a good year and getting here, but it\u2019s obviously very disappointing when you don\u2019t get the result you want, so that\u2019s the emotion at the moment.\u201d <\/p>\n
The Storm could have gone up by 20 in the second half with a Tui Kamicamika try denied and the Broncos scored at the other end to spark their comeback, and Bellamy conceded it was a huge moment in the game. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a pretty big turning point, but you\u2019ve got to give the Broncos some credit too for coming back,\u201d Bellamy said. <\/p>\n
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\u201cThey\u2019ve been coming back the whole semi-finals series actually, so we were a bit disappointed in how we let a couple of tries in. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut at the end of the day, we just weren\u2019t good enough on the day and the Broncos were.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is obviously tough losing a grand final whatever the situation. <\/p>\n
\u201cCertainly with that lead we had and made the point here that when we lost that ball over the line, that was a big turning point. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a no try and then that would have made it 20 points in front, and then they went up the other end and scored a try, so that was a huge turning point. <\/p>\n
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\u201cLet\u2019s say we\u2019re disappointed in the result, but to make a grand final, it\u2019s hard work and the boys have done a good job to do that, but obviously we\u2019d have liked to have won, but we haven\u2019t and the Broncos were too good on the night.\u201d <\/p>\n
The Storm had their chances in the second half, but Walsh came up with try-saver after try-saver to stop their victory bid. <\/p>\n
\u201cI would have liked too, but obviously it didn\u2019t,\u201d Bellamy said of the final five minutes of the game turning in the Storm\u2019s favour.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut there was a few other instances in the game where that could have happened, but it could have happened for the Broncos too, so at the end of the day things happened for a reason.\u201d <\/p>\n
Storm skipper Harry Grant summed up the pain of losing back-to-back grand finals for his side. <\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone can probably can understand the pain,\u201d Grant said. <\/p>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s a long season like Craig touched on. It\u2019s hard to get here. There\u2019s a lot of work that goes into being here and a lot of people put time and effort throughout the season. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo it\u2019s not easy to get here and you don\u2019t need to be in a rush to get back here. We can\u2019t get back here tomorrow. But what we do tomorrow can certainly help. I think that\u2019s painful to listen to, but it\u2019s about what\u2019s next now.\u201d <\/p>\n
Grant was pressed on a crucial trip call on him on Ezra Mam and took aim at the referees for blowing it out of proportion. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe just said it was a trip, look, the game\u2019s so fast,\u201d Grant said. <\/p>\n
\u201cEzra Mam\u2019s dangerous, left foot, right foot. You\u2019re coming across to make a tackle. You get wrong-footed, you\u2019re going to have imbalance somewhere within your body and for me, unfortunately there, that was what it looked like. <\/p>\n
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\u201cAt the end of the day, that decision is not from Grant (Atkins). It\u2019s from someone above Grant that has got replays and looks at it. <\/p>\n
\u201cLook, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any player going out a majority of the time, with intent to trip someone. Play it in fast motion, you\u2019ll see someone getting wrong-footed. <\/p>\n
\u201cEzra Mam is one of the best in the game as a running five-eighth. You don\u2019t know which way he\u2019s going, so there\u2019s probably more of what it was.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grant conceded the Broncos took their opportunities and the Storm fell short. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe created a few opportunities in the second half, but as Craig said they were there to stop it and we just didn\u2019t take advantage,\u201d Grant said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe were on the back foot a lot of that second half, but we still managed to find ways to give ourselves a sniff and credit to the Broncos in the way they turned up and owned their moments.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig Bellamy admitted his side\u2019s plan to stop Reece Walsh didn\u2019t work and conceded his team didn\u2019t learn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[50387,25481,9504,50394,39829,50395,50391,48515,9494,33830,50389,50386,50390,8061,9492,50392,111,139,69,3111,346,13905,50384,213,39836,50385,50393,50388,24708],"class_list":{"0":"post-61282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-back-to-back-grand-finals","9":"tag-ben-hunt","10":"tag-brisbane-broncos","11":"tag-brutal-truth-superstar","12":"tag-craig-bellamy","13":"tag-crucial-trip-call","14":"tag-day-things","15":"tag-ezra-mam","16":"tag-grand-final","17":"tag-grand-final-loss","18":"tag-grand-final-news","19":"tag-grand-final-performances","20":"tag-harry-grant","21":"tag-mark-st-john","22":"tag-melbourne-storm","23":"tag-moment-broncos","24":"tag-new-zealand","25":"tag-newzealand","26":"tag-nz","27":"tag-out","28":"tag-press-conference","29":"tag-reece-walsh","30":"tag-semi-finals-series","31":"tag-sports","32":"tag-storm-ratings","33":"tag-storm-skipper","34":"tag-trent-loiero","35":"tag-truth-superstar-duo","36":"tag-turning-point"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61282","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=61282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}