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Grim Munster news adds to Storm headache - CtrlF.XYZ

Grim Munster news adds to Storm headache

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Melbourne Storm manager Craig Bellamy has confirmed that Cameron Munster volition necessitate country aft suffering a compound dislocation to his finger, adding to an already lengthy wounded database for the club.

Munster near the tract clutching his close manus successful the archetypal fractional of the Storm's 16-12 triumph successful the season-opener against the Parramatta Eels, earlier returning to implicit the match.

Bellamy and Storm skipper Christian Welch lauded Munster's toughness, with the prima five-eighth playing a important second-half relation successful the triumph aft returning to the tract with his manus strapped up.

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"I really didn't spot him travel from the field," Bellamy said aft the match.

"They were saying he'll astir apt beryllium 5 minutes, we'll conscionable portion it up, and past it was going to beryllium half-time. Then we got a connection that helium won't beryllium coming backmost connected astatine all, truthful it was each a spot mixed up determination for a while.

"He's breached a bony and it's travel retired of the skin, truthful he'll request an operation. It's beauteous brave to travel retired (in the 2nd half) with an injection."

"When helium went off, I was thinking, 'Geez, helium could beryllium successful a spot of occupation here', and past astatine half-time helium was precise vocal," Welch added.

"It was astir apt the loudest I've seen him and helium conscionable took the reins.

"Great players similar that conscionable springiness assurance to the radical that they request to conscionable bash their relation and idiosyncratic similar Munster volition make something."

It remains unclear whether Munster volition beryllium sidelined for adjacent Saturday's clash against the Bulldogs, with the eight-day turnaround causing immoderate optimism for Bellamy.

"There was a spot of disorder determination connected however atrocious it was, but helium evidently got backmost connected determination and showed a batch of ticker," helium said.

"Hopefully helium tin person it (the operation) aboriginal successful the week, we've got a spot of a longer turnaround, but I'm not rather definite (of a timetable) until I talk to our physio and doctor.

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"It's not going to beryllium casual (without Munster). We'd alternatively that didn't happen, but if it does hap past idiosyncratic other volition get a chance."

Munster was not the lone Storm prima to look from the lucifer with an injury, with winger Xavier Coates suffering a breached clavicle.

Bellamy said helium expects the 21-year-old to beryllium sidelined for "a mates of weeks".

The injuries to Munster and Coates adds to what is already a lengthy wounded database for Bellamy's side, which was already without the likes of Ryan Papenhuyzen, Justin Olam and Dean Ieremia for the season-opener.

Papenhuyzen confirmed past week that helium is all but definite to miss the archetypal fractional of the season arsenic helium recovers from a superior genu wounded sustained midway done past year.

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