Ivan completely out coached Bellamy last night.
Sorro playing was a huge boon for us as it meant we had Garner available to go to centre when To'o went off and two true backrowers in position for the final twenty.
The entire game plan was just force contact in the middle and Harry especially. It was telegraphed and Bellamy didn't plan for it. Harry looked like Cam McInnes in the presser.
Selling out on high kicks by swarming the catcher was a brilliant move especially since the Storm have an inaccurate kicking game and can't land the ball where they want. The one time they put it on the goal line it took a brilliant defensive play to stop the try. They just don't have the ability to accurately kick consistently though and Penrith knew it.
Katoa looked the most likely for Melbourne but they never schemed around it, even with a make shift edge defence. Two of our tries were deliberate, the obvious set play for Turuva and the pass back to Nathan to exploit Munster who is low key a terrible defender positionally. Melbourne just didn't seem to have that sort of awareness and relied entirely on out of position markers with Harry making space. We knew it was coming and trampled Harry all game to blunt him.
Apologies for the unstructured word vomit.
