News ‘Give them the trophy now!’: NRL world shocked as Smith-less Storm look BETTER than 2020 premiers

[TDS-Reporter]

The reigning premiers, Melbourne Storm picked up the 2021 season exactly where they left off — in absolute sublime form — even without champion hooker Cameron Smith.

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[Captain Ibis]

Don't know about that.. Souths were pretty poor and the scoreline flatters them.. feel like if Cam was there that Souths don't get those two tries after half time.

One thing I will say is that I have to give credit to Storm's defence, and this has been a trademark of theirs for a while, along with other top teams, is that they never give up on their man.. like you'll notice with the bottom teams that they allow attacking players to roam, especially close to the try line, and the reality is that, the more time you give to an attacker, the more likely they are going to find a vulnerability in the line.