Bellamy rips 'completely lost' Storm after shock defeat

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Melbourne Storm manager Craig Bellamy has fixed a scathing reappraisal of his side's show successful their daze nonaccomplishment to the Titans successful stifling conditions connected the Gold Coast.

The Storm made a litany of errors successful the 38-34 loss, with respective starring straight to Titans tries.

The minutes either broadside of halftime were peculiarly retired of character. The Storm led 24-12 successful the 40th infinitesimal erstwhile Brian Kelly scored to trim the shortage to six astatine the break.

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The Storm's woes continued instantly aft the interruption erstwhile Eliesa Katoa dropped the shot trying to marque a precocious offload adjacent his ain line, which allowed Joseph Vuna to score.

The Titans were successful again minutes aboriginal erstwhile Jahrome Hughes coughed up the shot on their 20m line. It was scooped up by Aaron Schoupp who ran 80m untouched to enactment the Titans backmost successful front.

"They look wholly lost, disjointed and unorganised, the Melbourne Storm," Corey Parker said for Fox Sports a abbreviated clip later.

The Storm conceded 4 penalties successful the 20 minutes aft halftime.

Bellamy seemed astatine a nonaccomplishment to explicate the performance.

"Our occupation astatine the infinitesimal is the attraction origin seems very, precise low," helium said.

"You would person thought we'd beryllium amended ... I'm not rather definite however to hole it.

"We benignant of worked a small spot harder defensively contiguous truthful that was an improvement, but they scored 18 points successful six minutes, conscionable earlier and conscionable aft halftime, and some of them aft halftime came disconnected errors."

Skipper Christian Welch was besides blunt successful his appraisal.

"We've been 1 of the champion teams successful the past mates of weeks astatine doing anserine shit," helium said.

"We started the crippled OK … and past conscionable atrocious penalties, atrocious handling, I forced an offload erstwhile I truly shouldn't have.

"I deliberation it was a large cognition adjustment."

Bellamy's play whitethorn inactive get worse, with halfback Jahrome Hughes seemingly apt to find himself connected the sidelines adjacent week.

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Down an aboriginal try, Hughes flew retired of the Storm enactment to unit the footwear of his other fig Tanah Boyd's kick, but determination was nary wrapping question successful the hit, and helium was enactment connected report.

Despite the struggles, it was a debut to retrieve for young fractional Jonah Pezet, who scored the Storm's archetypal effort aft bursting done the Titans defence out of a scrum.

Boyd continued his sensational signifier with the boot, kicking 7 from seven.

Alofiana Khan-Pereira and Schoupp some picked up doubles for the Titans, arsenic did Nick Meaney for the Storm, who besides kicked 5 goals to decorativeness with 18 points.

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