A frustrated Craig Bellamy was furious with his side’s defence after they were blown off the park in a 38-14 loss to the Warriors that marked their fourth defeat on the trot.
Bellamy revealed the Storm spent most of their preparation for the game on their defence, but still missed 39 tackles and conceded five linebreaks and six tries in the humbling defeat that was the first in 17 games against the Warriors.
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“Yeah hugely. We’ve done a lot of work on our defence this week and may as well (have gone) to the pub and had a couple of beers,” Bellamy said.
However, Bellamy refused to put all the blame on his players and conceded he and his coaching staff need to also look in the mirror and make changes.
“There’s a lot of things going wrong, so at the end of the day we all have got to have a good hard look at ourselves,” Bellamy said.
“It’s not just what the players are doing. Obviously some of the stuff we’re doing in our preparation as coaches and me as a coach, we’ve got to be part of it too.
“We need to have a look at a lot of the things we’re doing. We’re probably doing similar to what we’ve done the last five or six years, so perhaps we need a bit of a change up in a couple of things.
“But the last couple of weeks have been hugely disappointing and hopefully we can get to the bottom of it.”
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Bellamy was pressed if some of his senior players are on notice after their fourth straight loss, which has them well outside the top eight.
“On notice for what?” Bellamy said.
“I think we all have got to take responsibility and if there’s people not doing their jobs properly, well we need to make changes.
“And that’s with staff as well as players, so it doesn’t matter how old they are or young they are or whatever. We just need to get it right. We just need to make a few changes without a doubt and go from there.”
Storm skipper Harry Grant admitted the Warriors gave them a lesson in attitude and application, but still feels he has the team to turn things around.
“I think the Warriors were a desperate footy side and probably more desperate than us in the consistency of their game,” Grant said.
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“They turned up willing to do the basics of the game, run hard and tackle hard for much longer and through tougher periods of the game than us.
“We were certainly in that contest and even towards the end of the game, like we were still fighting and probably chasing our tail a little bit too much towards the end.
“But they showed us the real basics of the game to do them well and do them through adversity and that’s something that we’ve got to do again this week.
“But we’ve got a good preparation in training, so just keep focusing on that, get that right and then it’s really important we transfer it to games.”
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The Storm have been uncharacteristically down on discipline this season and Grant conceded it is an area that needs addressing, but challenged his team to work harder on the back of penalties and mistakes.
“It’s certainly become part of our game and every team will go through it,” Grant said. “Ideally, you don’t want it. Ideally, individually, and as a team, we’ve got to be better in certain areas to fix those penalties, errors, especially if they’re dumb and avoidable, but we’ve just got to be grittier to defend those.
“You’re not going to go through a game without giving a penalty away or a six again, so they’re pretty prominent in the game, but we have just got to be better at defending them. “Certainly more disciplined individually, but then better as a team to turn up and do what’s needed next.”
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