Craig Bellamy has condemned Brandon Smith’s abuse of umpire Adam Gee in the storm’s 28-6 loss to the Sharks and has stated “it won’t happen again.”
Smith was sent to the trash for a strange moment while playing the ball with the storm in the attack.
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The prostitute received a blow and was attacked by Aiden Tolman. When he got up to play the ball, he threw a comment to Gee that sent him off the field immediately.
“I won’t even repeat what he said,” Gee was heard to say when asked about the incident.
When Smith left the field, he waved to mock the Sharks fans, even giving them a thumbs up before reacting angrily to a comment.
Smith turned as he went down the tunnel and shot a fan, “What did you say bra?”. He had to be detained by a Storm officer and a security guard.
Speaking after the game, Bellamy condemned Smith’s treatment of Gee and lamented the impact his sin had on the storm.
“I do not know what happened there. It looked like it would be one of our best sets, we had a bit of line speed. Then all of a sudden, I thought we had a penalty, but it ended up in the trash, ”Bellamy said.
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“I don’t know what he said. We don’t want our players to show that kind of disrespect to the referees. I can only say it won’t happen again.
“I do not know why he would say something then. Obviously, the referee did it for a reason. I’ll talk to Brandon a little bit and we’ll see what happened there. “
“As I said, we do not agree with everything that happens with the referees but we show respect and it is bad enough to turn the ball and give a penalty.
“I’m pretty sure it won’t happen again.”
Reflecting on the disappointing loss, Bellamy admitted he had considered a mid-season signing to help with the number of storm injuries.
Debutant winger Grant Anderson suffered a serious elbow injury while Kenny Bromwich was taken off the field with an ankle problem.
“It’s been a very tough year, honestly, in terms of injuries,” he said.
“I hope the guys (who got injured in the Sharks game) aren’t too bad.
“It simply came to our notice then. We definitely have a place among the remaining 30.
“We’ll probably have to do it at some point. We haven’t talked about it too much, but since Grant gets injured tonight we’ll have to talk about it.”
Bellamy said there were positives to take out of the game even though the storm fell on his second straight loss.
“The first half I thought our effort in the first half was pretty good. With all due respect, his foot in that first half was quite off the lists. “
“I thought we were in the game at 10-0. There are some things we need to improve on, but I think our areas of effort tonight were much better than last week.
I think we came across a pretty hot side with our foot.