Just wanna point out that Melbourne were not head and shoulders above the rest of the NRL as they finished 3rd. St George won the Giltinan Shield. Just pointing out for accuracy.

Cameron Smith is not normally a 7 you know

Kalum Watkins isn't a winger either, but he has played there enough times before, and Matt Diskin isn't a backrower. Just like Smith has played scrum half enough times to not be considered out of position.



The fact that Smith moving allowed the 4th regarded best hooker in the NRL to play, came far away from disadvantaging the Storm.

Everyone just needs to calm down. The hype is getting waaay out of control.

They had people out from the start...one of the best props in the game and one of the best scrum halves in the game. They then had to accomodate this by moving the best hooker to scrum half.



You lost your loose forward DURING the game and had a player with super league experience to wing from centre.



The two are incomparable

This does seem to be going around in circles. Let me add to the confusion OK.

Two of Melbournes 'bit players' in that game are yet to make their NRL debut



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Though Jesse did say Leeds was "an eye-opener"