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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 3228336, member: 1899"] That's where they will miss him most but they can take a lot of positives out of this game. They lost their way which caused their senior players to throw some pressure passes that didn't need to be thrown, but the way they lifted after Paulo scored was a good sign. The Storm were completely out on their feet for the majority of that second half but just kept getting numbers until the Paulo try. Even then, that try came off the back of a fairly soft penalty and a six again which just put their defence on tilt. Their biggest challenge will be trying to find a balance with their attack. Right now they're relying too heavily on their left and some of their biggest strike weapons are being kept out of the game. Hughes in particular was effective last year because Smithy could bring him into the game with an early ball and he'd dummy to Paps or Suli before stepping back on the inside and either busting straight through or giving Smithy a quick play the ball which would lead to a NAS or Big Tino barge over play. What Grant will offer them is some more variety around the ruck and it will allow Smith to play that middle third role where he can make those big 15m+ runs that allows Melbourne to go for those big shifts. [/QUOTE]

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