The Storm came from behind to end a seven-game winning streak for the Broncos with a 32-20 win at AAMI Park on Friday night.
Brisbane led 16-6 just before half-time, but Kiwi midfielder Jahrome Hughes tested Melbourne midfielder Cameron Munster and then focused on equalizing before the home side took control. after the interval.
Hughes scored a second try in a five-star performance ahead of next Saturday’s return home test in Auckland against Tonga, as the storm dominated the second season.
Despite an impressive performance from a Broncos team that lacked Adam Reynolds and a midfielder who hadn’t played Tyrone Roberts in the NRL for two years and Ezra Mam, a five-eighth rookie, is now in danger of leaving the four. first.
Snapshot of the match
- The Storm opened the scoring in the eighth minute after Fiji striker Tui Kamikamica, who was a late inclusion in the starting line-up, crashed from distance.
- Then it was a one-way traffic when the Broncos piled up three quick-fire attempts, which began with substitute skipper Kurt Capewell throwing a pass over winger Corey Oates to score in the 18th minute after Edrick Lee called a kick by Tyrone Roberts.
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Oatly bright
- Oates got his second try just six minutes later after the Broncos were the ball quickly through Payne Haas, Ezra Mam, Te Maire Martin and Lee before the end came in to score.
- Roberts, who had been playing his first NRL game for more than two years, then tried out the boom Selwyn Cobbo in the 27th minute with a pass cut as the visitors took a 16-6 lead.
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Selwyn notes
- The Storm offered no respite to opposing teams and, as the Broncos seemed to have their measure, accumulated two quick tries through star players Jahrome Hughes and Cameron Munster to equalize at halftime.
- Munster scored first after Hughes shot in the second inning and Cobbo fumbled the ball as he threw it and Munster fired in just six minutes into the break.
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picks up Cameron
- Hughes’s Nick Meaney made a successful breakthrough on the left after 37 minutes and should have leveled the score, but instead he clipped it over the bar.
- Melbourne winger Dean Ieremia put Storm ahead again when he threw a corner kick in the 56th minute after a Munster pass to Lee created space outside.
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Jeremiah slides to take the lead
- Jeremiah then scored his second try seven minutes later after Munster started the second inning and the Melbourne winger pushed Cobbo back into the goal to force a drop from the goal line.
- Just two tackles later, Jeremiah came in after Hughes teamed up with Munster, who teamed up with Kenny Bromwich before Meaney sent the end competing down the test line to open up a 10-point lead.
- Hughes then sealed the victory when he made a mock-up before falling to the Broncos in goal and won the race by his own kick five minutes before the end time.
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Hughes can do it!
- Rookie Broncos ’fifth-rounder Ezra Mam scored a consolation try three minutes before the end time to give his team a well-deserved reward for an impressive effort without Reynolds.
Game play
The storm ended 16-6 six minutes before the break when Jahrome Hughes made a try for Cameron Munster with a well placed shot and then tied the score with a spectacular try on his own.
Hughes started the movement when he broke the defense, passed inside Nick Meaney and then backed away to receive a quick pass before sprinting to score.
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Hughes level it
What they said
“I think everyone knows what I think of Jahrome. His improvement over the last 18 months has been immense and I think he’s up there with any migback in the competition, I think. He has a great kicking game and a great racing game. He has a little bit of confidence in his leadership right now. Storm coach Craig Bellamy.
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“The storm has been good for a long time, so you have to be really good to beat them and we’ve been good tonight, but we haven’t been great. We’ve fallen short. I’m not sure the last time Tyrone he played in the NRL, but it’s probably two or three years, so for him to do a performance like this was really good. work “. Kevin Walters, Broncos coach.
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