Storm coach Craig Bellamy has slammed his facet’s disastrous efficiency in opposition to the Titans, citing a low “care factor” as the explanation behind an early-season stoop.
Melbourne went all the way down to the Bulldogs at house in Round 2 earlier than shedding to the Gold Coast 38-34 in blistering situations at Cbus Super Stadium.
Going into halftime the Storm held a 24-18 lead however after two horror errors, Bellamy’s facet had been rapidly behind and taking part in catch-up.
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Bellamy was requested why his facet’s perspective points weren’t mounted after an upset final week, and the skilled coach didn’t maintain again.
“At times, the Titans were probably as bad as us with some errors that they made, but they hung on better than us,” Bellamy stated within the post-match press convention.
“With all due respect, our problem at the moment is the care factor seems very, very low.
“You would think it would have been better yes… you might be able to tell me because I’m not quite sure how to fix it.
“As I said, to me we sort of worked a little bit harder defensively today, but they scored 18 points in six minutes just before halftime then two after halftime.
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“Both came off errors, so the care factor seems not too important at the moment.”
Bellamy additionally highlighted that their common system “went out the window” as his gamers made constant errors.
The 63-year-old was additionally requested if Melbourne’s poor kind could possibly be attributed to the Queensland warmth, however Bellamy wasn’t shopping for it.
“It was the same for both sides, not ideal but again that’s not a decision for us to make, our job is to come and play here and do a good job for our fans, and the last two weeks we haven’t,” Bellamy stated.
“We made about four or five errors in a row and we were just down on our tryline… like I said, just how easy those tries came from things that aren’t really in our system.
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“Today it just went out the window and we took all of the shortcuts.”
Melbourne captain Christian Welch additionally was clearly shocked along with his crew’s efficiency, echoing his coach’s opinion.
“We are trying, we are just making life pretty difficult for ourselves, we have been one of the best teams over the last couple of weeks at doing stupid s**t,” Welch stated.
“Just taking the pressure off, we started the game all right and then some bad penalties, handling… big attitude adjustment.
“Probably lack of care, lack of respect for the ball, especially in those conditions, you keep turning the ball over and making errors, it is going to be a pretty long day.”
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