"At times they were just laying on, laying on, laying on." Melbourne Coach Craig Bellamy told reporters at his post match press conference. "Having said that, good luck to them. They got away with it."
Even allowing for his prefacing comments acknowledging that other club's accuse his team of slowing down the play, this was an astonishing complaint from the Storm boss. Renowned throughout the competition as a man forever searching for new ways to slow down the ruck, his team professionally and consistently do just that each and every week of the season.
If this didn't put these claims on shaky ground already, the fact that Suliasi Vunivalu was sin-binned for cynically preventing an Eels player from regaining his feet, should have done so. This is the crux of the situation though isn't it, rather than an impassioned plea of a wronged coach, this is nothing more than second rate showmanship to divert attention away from a loss and perhaps influence future referees.
Jul 09, 2017Jul 09, 2017 REAL SPORT
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I thought we were getting off 'em pretty quick. He said he thought the game was slow but I didn't notice it.
I suppose if Smith had of been there dictating to the refs things may have been different. But he wasn't, was he. LOL
Matthew Boyle from 'Real Sport'?
Top shelf journalism right there.
Bellamy whinged, we won, who gives a rats?
That's a bit rich coming from Bellamy, I was of the opinion that the Storm were holding Parra down for longer all night.
Not only that, they received more penalties on the night, so Bellamy can bugger off!
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