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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 2586237, member: 8215"] At the moment their only injury concerns are to some outside backs and <cough cough> Ben Roberts. They really don't have many excuses as to why they're not performing if Bellamy is such a great coach. Of course, for those not smitten with him, we know the reason(s): 1) He has always depended on the Big 3. Now that they are in decline, if he was such a good coach he'd be able to have his team, as a whole, performing. His legend would have you believe that he's able to take fringe players and discards and turn them in to world-beaters. The reality seems to be that certain players just make everyone around them look better. 2) The residual effects of the salary cap drama. The whole 'taking less money to play together' crock is over, we're starting to see who [I]really[/I] wants to stay. Ryan Hoffman does not. While you can't blame him for taking the money, would he have gone elsewhere in the late 2010's if he wasn't retained by illegal means? The Storm are now having to retain players on a level field as other teams, and it's clear that paying his favourite players what they're worth, legally, leaves not much more than a shell of a team. [/QUOTE]

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