Qualifying Final - Storm vs Sea Eagles

[Lennart Bedrager]

Ignore Napoli above. Word on the street is Smith out for 6 weeks

You're a goose
You've never made a positive post regarding the team, you had nothing to say about last night's win, and only bothered to come in here spruiking your bs once you thought Brandon's injury might be worse than initially thought.

And as per usual..... YOU'RE WRONG!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CTqBKckh4db/?hl=en
Cheese got the ok from the doc, nice try buddy

[six rings]

Brandon Smith will play for sure

Brandon Smith is one of the toughest people on the whole planet.

Brandon has confirmed in his twitter, nerve damage and brusing but no facial fracture and two weeks to get better for the great kiwi


hecticcheese
Verified
Great result last night, even greater result from the doctor that there was no facial fractures. Bring on the Pre Lim
15m

[six rings]

https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-pr ... a75fe4ea01

Storm’s BIG relief as star is cleared of facial fracture:


Melbourne Storm hooker Brandon Smith has confirmed he didn’t suffer any facial fractures after being ruled out early in his side’s finals clash with Manly.

Smith was taken off in the first half after a nasty clash with the Sea Eagles’ Josh Aloiai.


The 25-year-old got up groggily and had a bleeding nose as play was temporarily stopped.

He was then taken off for examination and failed his concussion test.

Fortunately for Craig Bellamy, Harry Grant was on hand to replace Smith at No. 9.

[Scooter]

the official on brandon from brandon himself after scans...bone bruising ,some nerve damage but no break...see you in semis...exact words..

Where’s this from?

Brandon Smith's instagram post.

[Premiers]

Ok that’s good news about Brandon (if true)

The thing I’m worried about is that we will likely meet Parramatta in the Preliminary and they have beaten us twice already this season

[Kettles]

What a wonderful night. What a wonderful captain we have in Cameron Munster…oh - that’s right - he’s not is he?

Why?

One of them’s shooting off for a big payday and the other frankly - should be shipped off.

This club’s on and off field direction should be the way of Paps and Munster, clearly.

[blazza18]

What a wonderful night. What a wonderful captain we have in Cameron Munster…oh - that’s right - he’s not is he?

Why?

One of them’s shooting off for a big payday and the other frankly - should be shipped off.

This club’s on and off field direction should be the way of Paps and Munster, clearly.

What a bizarre post

[six rings]

If you are talking about Jessie Bromwich being shipped off, I thought he played his best game of the season last night. So your comments are way off the pace.

plus Jessie also gave an extremely emotional speech before the game and Jessie has been our player of the year 3 times over his career so he has the pedigree to be the captain.

And Dale will do everything to end his career at the Storm with a bang

Munster, Paps, Brandon Harry and Jerohme are our play makers

But they are nothing without our Forward pack dominating.

We won last night because we had the best Forward pack


Thanks Jessie, thanks Dale, thanks Christian, thanks Tui, thanks NAS, thanks Felice, thanks Kenny

[RobbieRoss]

Riders of the Storm the fact we have a full strength forward pack makes me feel confident if we play anywhere near our best we win.

Tui has had a couple of games back and NAS one game and the rest of forwards have had rests.

Craig will also have a defensive plan in place to try and nullify Turbo and we won't have 9 players drop off tackles in the same play like the Cowboys did last week.

Scooter - great job: you were absolutely spot on !

I , like others , was very nervous pre-game. I was seduced by the form of Turbo and his wingers. However, Craig reminded us last night that, for all the huge scores we have posted this season, our game remains ( as it has been for 19 seasons ) based on uncompromising defence from everyone, and the big forwards laying a platform in attack to give room for the backs to do their thing.

They did it perfectly last night.

So onto our 7th prelim in a row- extraordinary.

Of course a long way to go, but for the moment we can enjoy watching 6 teams beat each other up this weekend, then 4 teams do it again next weekend, and that in 13 days we play a team that between now and then have to play two tough matches. Now, with the positive news re Cheese, it looks as if we may be at full strength ( touch wood ).

I am greatly looking forward to the games tonight and tomorrow !

[Scooter]

Only one charge from last night's game. Josh Schuster for dangerous throw on Jahrome Hughes. Schuster faces a fine.

[Bullucked]

Only one charge from last night's game. Josh Schuster for dangerous throw on Jahrome Hughes. Schuster faces a fine.

And how long did it take for the referee to call it?

[Scooter]

Only one charge from last night's game. Josh Schuster for dangerous throw on Jahrome Hughes. Schuster faces a fine.

And how long did it take for the referee to call it?

It wasn't until after Harry Grant pushed Schuster.

[Scooter]

Media rounds:
Craig Bellamy on Triple M Dead Set Legends:
- when asked about Brandon said that neither Brandon or the medical team had spoken to him about the injury but apparently Brandon posted on social media;
- Josh would have likely played in week 2 of finals if we played, so will be right for Preliminary Final;
- was asked if it was correct that he didn't have an email address. Craig said he had to get one about three months ago for the NRL Covid app but that is the only reason he has an email account.

Christian Welch on 2GB:
- Wants to get into sports administration after he retires;
- He was asked about Brandon's injury. Christian said last night because Brandon has a naturally puffy face it was difficult to work out if he was injured or just his natural face.

Reimis Smith on Triple M Sydney:
- Pre-season was so tough that some days when he got home he would go to sleep straight away;
- He is pinching himself that he is playing with Storm in finals;
- Comes from same junior club as Josh Addo-Carr and hopes to play in GF with Foxx before Foxx goes to Bulldogs.

[Scooter]

Speaking of Reimis Smith, how good was his defence last night, particularly on Tommy Trbojevic.

[yourhero]

Only one charge from last night's game. Josh Schuster for dangerous throw on Jahrome Hughes. Schuster faces a fine.

And how long did it take for the referee to call it?

It wasn't until after Harry Grant pushed Schuster.

Yep. If there was no push and shove, it wasn’t going to be called.

There is a big space for smart teams to take advantage of non-calls in games via Captains challenges. Force a penalty. Purposely knock on. Cause a stoppage and then challenge the play.