Melbourne Storm

The Bulldogs dominated the Storm 26-12 despite a late comeback, but Josh Addo-Carr and Jacob Kiraz put in masterclasses as Craig Bellamy tore his team to ...

So you actually start to move it around and you find gaps. “He found himself in the team and a great barging try. “In the first half he had 141 metres, heaps of tackle breaks and offloads. “They combined really well last week and the Storm missed him.” “But his mere presence brings a lot of confidence to the players around him, particularly Jahrome, Harry Grant and Nick Meaney in the spine. “They lacked the confidence he brings to a footy team. “Craig Bellamy has gone nuclear and there will be a response in the second half.” “The fact that they can turn up for their first home game of the year and put in that first 40 minutes. “That is why Craig Bellamy is blowing up deluxe because the first time in a long time they haven’t given too much this half and 31 missed tackles in 40 minutes of football,” Cronk said. “They have lost the last seven games against the Storm and they come out with plays and confidence and a style of play like this. “I have been there and heard it and there will be a reaction form the Melbourne Storm players because when this man tells you that you are not pulling up your socks enough he will let you know and he will not miss. “That was a very good first half of footy from the Bulldogs,” Cronk said.

Bulldogs flyers Jacob Kiraz and Josh Addo-Carr ran riot as Canterbury outgunned the Melbourne Storm 26-12 at AAMI Park on Saturday night.

We'd like to have all our players available but at the end of the day we just want the players who go on the field to do their best and we were a long way away from our best tonight." Josh [Addo-Carr] has a lot of strike and we want him involved in the game and he's got a licence to go anywhere. They were running harder, they were tackling harder, they were doing everything better than us and we were a mile off with some of our effort areas. "We pride ourselves on effort here but at the start of the game they were a lot more enthusiastic than us. We've got good players with some strike and we've got very skilful players and that's the way we are going to play. The best of their three tries came in the 34th minute when halfback Kyle Flanagan went left and found Viliame Kiaku who got it on quickly to centre Paul Alamoti who sent Josh Addo-Carr away for his 119th career try.

Melbourne Storm are a young side and their inexperience was exploited by the stronger, faster Canterbury Bulldogs at AAMI Park on Saturday night.

“We would like to have all our players available but we just our players to go on the field and do their best. Jake Averillo, Jacob Kiraz [were good] and Paul Alamoti played his second game tonight. Jacob Preston played his second game tonight and he was incredible. “Start of the game they were a lot more enthusiastic than us. Asofa-Solomona gave home fans something to cheer about on 54 minutes when he shrugged off two defenders and drove over the try line to cut it to 26-6 but the big forward soon limped off with a leg injury and didn’t return. The Bulldogs quickly took advantage attacking the right and quickly coming up with a second try with winger Jacob Kiraz diving over to put his club up 10-0.

A Cam Munster-less Melbourne Storm will have their work cut out for them to defeat a Canterbury Bulldogs outfit looking to atone for a…

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Souring the night even more was an injury suffered by Nelson Asofa-Solomona, who sustained a knee injury and is expected to miss games. Cooper Cronk, who played ...

It made it really hard to stop. [suffering a compound fracture to a finger in his right hand in round one](https://wwos.nine.com.au/nrl/news-2023-craig-bellamy-melbourne-storm-injury-toll-cameron-munster-xavier-coates/af66b958-6869-4383-bdfe-a0c47920eee9). They were getting rolls on early in the set. [clicking here](https://login.nine.com.au/edm?client_id=wwos&redirect_uri=https://wwos.nine.com.au&newsletter=true)! "At the end of the day, that's not going to make any difference unless we want to show a bit of pride in our footy, show a bit of pride in what we're about as a footy team, or what we're supposed to be about as a footy team, and also a bit of pride at home here," Bellamy said. "Like I say, we've got a whole heap of work to do, and we've got a whole heap of adjusting our mindset (to do)." [9Now](https://9now.app.link/NGHBKQkVweb) ['Absolute accident': Drama as Dolphins stun Raiders](https://wwos.nine.com.au/nrl/dolphins-sean-o-sullivan-sin-binned-wayne-bennett-reaction-raiders/dd64c539-da5e-407f-82de-ae62b62ae5c9) [Bulldogs](https://wwos.nine.com.au/canterbury-bulldogs) in their first home game of the season. ['Not on': Suaalii sweats over late tackle](https://wwos.nine.com.au/nrl/news-2023-roosters-v-warriors-brandon-smith-rib-injury-concerns-joseph-suaalii-on-report/28235156-7211-4703-95e2-0fe04f320299) [Melbourne Storm](https://wwos.nine.com.au/nrl/melbourne-storm) fielded such an inexperienced side on Saturday night because of their crushing injury toll that many of the players would never have been on the receiving end of a [Craig Bellamy](https://wwos.nine.com.au/craig-bellamy) spray. [Double blow for Cowboys with star pair facing bans](https://wwos.nine.com.au/nrl/news-2023-scott-drinkwater-facing-three-games-shoulder-charge-on-corey-oates/65c11313-c8f9-49d5-b1b1-dbb427f5620e)

Melbourne Storm coach Craig Bellamy has blasted his side, admitting the effort was not good enough in the side's 26-12 loss to the Canterbury Bulldogs on ...

“It’s just really disappointing in the first home game,” Welch said. “When someone misses out, someone else gets a chance so we just want those guys coming in to take the chance, not sit back hoping the other guys will do their job tonight. It could have been 40 when it was 26 so we’ve got a whole heap of work to do. Start of the game they were a lot more enthusiastic than us. They were tackling harder, they were doing everything better than us. We were a mile off with some of our effort areas.