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If they win the grand final, they will have gotten past the back-to-back premiers in the Roosters, Wayne Bennett's Rabbitohs and yet another outstanding Storm team. They will have won 18 games in a row and lost just one this year, an incredible effort.
And they're just so confident. There's absolutely no way to write them off after what they've achieved this season. After 10 minutes, we had a penalty goal right in front to lead 2-0. As captain, I decided to take it … and we didn't score another point until the 68th minute, when we were down 20-2, before losing 26-6.
Then Jimmy Maloney pops up, it's probably the first thing he's said in the huddle all year, and goes: "Boys, if we thought we were going to have this our own way, we're f---ing kidding ourselves." I reckon 'culture' is such an overused term in rugby league but to Melbourne's credit, they have undeniably built a culture of perpetual success. Players learn so much from other players and the Storm have Ryan Hoffman, Ryan Hinchcliffe and Billy Slater as important parts of their set-up; club greats and in Billy's case, one of the best players we've ever seen.
He's a freak at the moment, a gun, and he has the best teacher imaginable. He's given an excellent team an exciting new edge, Papenhuyzen, and was one of their early try-scorers against Canberra. The Panthers beat the Storm earlier this season. They're so young and enthusiastic. Their confidence levels are huge.
But match-ups are key and they're not tall men, where the Storm have Suliasi Vunivalu and Josh Addo-Carr, who can jump. If Melbourne get the opportunity to put a high ball up to one of those wingers, it's going to be a big ask for the Panthers players.
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