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Melbourne Storm back on the winners list | The Wisdom & Experience of Robert Craddock (11.05.26)
11 May 2026
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Chapter 1: What were the highlights of the Melbourne Storm's recent victory?
Now, back to Waitley. Munster for the try line. Shut the gate. Billy will pick him. Forget about all the missed tackles. Forget about the missed kicks. Forget about the intercepts. Try under the post. And the Tigers are being blown away. Oh, look at Harry. Harry's left them standing. Back to Jerome Hughes. There was a yawning gap. How did that happen? Hughes under the post again.
This is magnificent. Melbourne 18-0 over the West Tigers in 12 and a half minutes. Hughes went out the back to Munster! Straight through Cameron Munster. In fact, it looked so easy. It feels better than the last seven weeks or six weeks we've ever spent. So it was nice to do it at home as well, you know.
I thought, you know, what we basically planned to do and how we planned to do it, we stuck at it for most of the 80 minutes. And, yeah, it was a good win for us in the end, yeah.
Back on the winner's list, Melbourne Storm, 44-16 over West Tigers yesterday at Amy Park. It's been a tumultuous time, as Justin Rodsky in the studio last week gave you a real picture of the uncertainty that has surrounded Melbourne Storm with the health issues that the coach is now confronting, Craig Bellamy. The wisdom and experience of Robert Craddock here. Hello to you, Crash. Hello, Gerard.
Up to the start of what's going to be a very busy week up here with Magic Round, and it was a tumultuous weekend in sport. Plenty happening, mate. There is indeed. It showed a bit of character from the storm to straighten things up yesterday. Yeah, long overdue, wasn't it? Seven losses in a row. You just can't think of putting that sentence with the words Melbourne Storm. But they're back.
They look good. It was a weakened West Tigers team. Cam Munster played well, which should assure he's the Queensland State of Origin captain. I don't think there was too many doubts about it. But, yeah, Bellamy's future is interesting, Gerard. Before the game, he gave a press conference and he spoke about it. briefly and sort of vaguely.
But what he didn't commit to was, you know, the absolute certainty that he would coach on in the future beyond this season. And he has a neurodegenerative condition. No one is quite sure what it is. The specifics have not been released. But the only certainty is that it won't get better. And it was funny, just less than an hour ago, I was down the coffee shop with a man with Parkinson's disease.
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Chapter 2: How did Cam Munster perform in the match against the Wests Tigers?
That's a, you know, a similar sort of condition. And he said to me, he's the same age as Bellamy, 66. And he said, look, he said, he is a marvel to be continuing to coach. And he said, that's the hard, he said, I'm resting up, I'm retired. And he said, but he said, the stress of a rugby league coach, man, oh man, that is unbelievable.
And knowing that next year, you cannot be better than you are this year. He said, that would be a supreme challenge.