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The crucial point here is that the Storm have not put forward any kind of public statement that even *entertains* the notion that this might run deeper than the half-dozen names that have been put forward and shamed. To an outsider it all seems indicative of a toxic, win-at-all-costs culture permeating the club at every level, from administrators to players to fans, and in the face of what has been toted as Rugby League’s greatest scandal, the Melbourne Storm need to take a step back and think about what it means to project the same attitude in this dark hour.
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Especially for those of us that have seen this same attitude throughout the Storm’s short history – like the show of support when Rodney Howe was banned *from the sport* after returning a positive drug test. There’s a lot of mud being slung from the Storm to anyone outside of the club, and a developing siege mentality that it’s “us vs them”.įor those of us that support other clubs, it’s pretty hard to feel sympathetic toward this sort of behaviour. We’ve seen the players criticise the salary cap, the directors launch legal action against the NRL, more than a few fingers pointed at former CEO Brian Waldron and recruitment manager Peter O’Sullivan, and even a contigent of fans sticking it to David Gallop with “FCUK GALLOP” T-Shirts and petitions calling for the NRL head to resign.
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I can understand that in the initial stages the entire Storm club would have felt hurt by the decision and at odds with those who made it, so I can forgive the first reaction of wanting to point the finger elsewhere – but at what point do the Storm players and administration start looking at themselves?Īside from dumping Matt Hanson and another “senior official”, there’s been precious little introspection from the Storm. When the story first broke, it seemed most people were willing to give the players the benefit of the doubt in something that was clearly masterminded and maintained by administration, but it seems the scales are starting to swing the other way, and the responsibility for it rests on the Storm themselves and the way they’ve responded to this whole saga.