From bush premierships as a teenager to NRL titles and a salary cap scandal, the Storm coach has experienced everything the greatest game of all has to offer.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.To understand the making of Craig Bellamy as a coach, you must sift through the different layers of his life, like the archaeologists do. His evolution as long-term leader of the Melbourne Storm, particularly in a sport still bound to its working-class roots, makes eminent sense in retrospect.
It’s no surprise, therefore, that humility is his enduring quality in a code where big-headedness is a crime. He is also pathologically honest. Consider the day, aged 20, he received a phone call from Portland while working as an electrician at Queanbeyan Leagues Club. The caller’s first words were to tell him to sit down. His response? “There’s no chairs here, mate.” His father Norm, the one he went fishing with to supplement the family budget, had been killed in a mine accident.
His long-term strike rate with the Storm where, should he win the 2024 premiership would mean six grand final wins since 2003 . Compare that with the two inaugural coaches recently inducted into the ARL Hall of Fame: Jack Gibson who coached for the same period for five premierships at six clubs while Bennett has also coached at six clubs for seven premierships in double the time.It is extremely challenging to remain relevant at the same club during two decades.
After all, back in 2010 when Melbourne had the two premierships stripped , he vowed not to use “prove the bastards wrong” motivation, knowing it is ultimately defeatist.
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