Monday, May 10, 2004
Deja Vu? Let's hope not!
Rewind to last year. Round 23. The Melbourne Storm had just been thumped and were being written off as premiership contenders. Their next opponents - the Parramatta Eels, in desperate need of a win to keep their slim premiership hopes alive. Fast forward to this week. The Melbourne Storm have just been thumped and are being written off as premiership contenders. Their opponents - the Parramatta Eels who desperately need a win to get their premiership ambitions back on track.
Sound like deja vu? Let's hope not. Last year, the Storm bounced back to form and gave Parramatta an absolute drubbing, flogging them 50 to 12 in what was the Eels most embarrassing loss of the year. Last year, the performance before the Eels was even worse - they lost 50 to 4 against St George. But the Storm seem to be taking last week's loss against the Sharks as though it were a drubbing.
Storm coach Craig Bellamy told The Herald Sun: "We're all in this together and I will have a long hard look at myself and the way I have been coaching this footy side. What we have to learn is it is such a tough competition that you have to turn up every week and you have to play out every minute. If you don't you are going to get burnt."
Sound like deja vu? Let's hope not. Last year, the Storm bounced back to form and gave Parramatta an absolute drubbing, flogging them 50 to 12 in what was the Eels most embarrassing loss of the year. Last year, the performance before the Eels was even worse - they lost 50 to 4 against St George. But the Storm seem to be taking last week's loss against the Sharks as though it were a drubbing.
Storm coach Craig Bellamy told The Herald Sun: "We're all in this together and I will have a long hard look at myself and the way I have been coaching this footy side. What we have to learn is it is such a tough competition that you have to turn up every week and you have to play out every minute. If you don't you are going to get burnt."
