ANALYSIS: For the first time, the Melbourne Storm are starting to look like everybody else
What's most telling about how unfamiliar Melbourne are with their surroundings isn't so much their recent losing streak, it is how they got out of it.
Three losses or, God forbid, four? Well, that just didn't happen, so it's hard to say exactly how they'd react. Nearly every team in the league goes through runs like that at one time or another, but not the Melbourne Storm. Far they have travelled and much they have seen in their years at the top, so a serious run of losses is the only foreign country left for them.
Make no mistake, if the Storm are fully loaded, they're still one of the best teams in the competition. But that's the difference between this Storm side and those of yesterday — they need to be fully loaded to match it with the likes of Penrith or North Queensland or even their old rivals at Cronulla.
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