STORM KEEP UP PREMIERSHIP CHASE
TOM SMITH AAMI Park, Friday
MELBOURNE STORM 20 CANTERBURY BULLDOGS 14
MELBOURNE held off fast-finishing Canterbury to secure a vital victory in the second game of the NRL’s top-of-the-table Friday night double header.
A sold-out crowd packed AAMI Park for this clash of second versus third, where the big-game experience of veterans Cameron Munster and Harry Grant came to the fore.
The Storm carried a 12-0 lead into half-time, but they didn’t have things all their own way after the restart, losing Tui Kamikamica to a failed head-injury assessment and skipper Harry Grant to the sin bin minutes into the second half.