Craig Bellamy

You look at the Storm guys, and they've been fiercely loyal to Craig.

You've got Munster and Jerome and Harry Grannon, and they haven't really entertained leaving the club whilst Craig Bellamy's been the coach.

And look, we all assume that next year's going to be Craig Bellamy's final season in charge.

So I think what the Melbourne Storm need to do is work out who's next.

We can only go on why the Roosters have operated business in the past.

I think you're right.

It wouldn't be right if we didn't get a summation of the day's play from Craig from Maitland on the open line.

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Morning, Craig.

Good morning, James and Michael.

Yes, great application from Australia's batsman on day two at Newlands.

So if you're an Australian cricket tragedy like I am, you haven't missed a ball this year, it's a very happy Thursday morning.

There you go.

Bellamy.

Bellamy, Craig Bellamy, is that, They're past three halfbacks, if I'm not mistaken, at least two, world-class international halfbacks, weren't even halfbacks.

They come into his system and he's that thorough about what a good halfback looks like to the Melbourne Storm that he can shape them.

Yeah, that's so good.

The rhetoric around Harris, it's really interesting.

You look at the Storm guys, and they've been fiercely loyal to Craig.

You've got Munster and Jerome and Harry Grant, and they haven't really entertained leaving the club whilst Craig Bellamy's been the coach.

And look, we all assume that next year's going to be Craig Bellamy's final season in charge.

So I think what the Melbourne Storm need to do is work out who's next.

from a coaching perspective because A, if it's Billy Slater, the gravitas that he has and the respect he has amongst these players will make it less enticing for them to leave the club.

Yep.

So I think that's going to be a huge talking point going forward is who's the coach of the Melbourne Storm and do these players want to know who the coach is or are they comfortable enough with recommitting to the club?

You look at the Storm guys, and they've been fiercely loyal to Craig.

You've got Munster and Jerome and Harry Grant, and they haven't really entertained leaving the club whilst Craig Bellamy's been the coach.

And look, we all assume that next year's going to be Craig Bellamy's final season in charge.

So I think what the Melbourne Storm need to do is... work out who's next from a coaching perspective.

Because A, if it's Billy Slater, the gravitas that he has and the respect he has amongst these players will make it less enticing for them to leave the club.

You look at the Storm guys, and they've been fiercely loyal to Craig.

You've got Munster and Jerome and Harry Grant, and they haven't really entertained leaving the club whilst Craig Bellamy's been the coach.

And look, we all assume that next year's going to be Craig Bellamy's final season in charge.

So I think what the Melbourne Storm need to do is... work out who's next from a coaching perspective.

Because A, if it's Billy Slater, the gravitas that he has and the respect he has amongst these players will make it less enticing for them to leave the club.

And they could really be getting to 2028 starting that year with a side that we look at and are like, I can't believe this side for the last 20 to 25 years has been what it's been.

Like, I'm actually starting to get – We obviously have the Craig Bellamy effect here, which this next year, 2027, looks like the last year for him.

We know players like Munster and Grant have said in the past they're staying there while Bellamy's there.

And then who knows? They'll look at their options and...

I want to go and enjoy the surf and enjoy the weather and that sort of thing.

This could be a humongous November 1 period for the Storm just in a retention space here, but I haven't heard of any real proper rumors for them either.

So once they lose these guys, I don't know if, like, once they lose these sorts of guys, I don't think they have the pull power that they normally do, especially without the Craig Bellamy either.

yeah it's a it's a really interesting time because guys like hughes and munster are not 32 33 i think and they're surely within years of retiring and I'm talking a couple of years maybe two or three surely just their bodies have let them down at the best of times so yeah it's I think they bungled it up letting guys like Peasant and Wishart go when they looked like they were in their system and just sort of waiting for their opportunity I don't know what happened there I'll never I'll never understand how they could have those two guys who I thought were the tried and true replacements for Munster and

four of those, yeah.

Craig Bellamy was a trainer when we did that and – Yeah.

And the guys, I reckon, it was sort of the first time that I was sort of getting a feel for it.

But when you're doing it as a professional, you're going as fast as you can.