Bellamy to retire after 2016

[Fozz]

Melbourne Storm coach Craig Bellamy confirms retirement plans

Craig Bellamy will end his distinguished NRL coaching career at Melbourne after announcing his current Storm contract will be his last.Bellamy's three-year deal runs out in 2016 with a two-year extension that he can activate when the contract expires.
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]But Bellamy - in the role since 2003 - said he planned to call it quits.[/FONT]

Bellyache retires around the same time that Smith and Slater are winding down. Not really a surprise.

 

[broncos4life]

What a surprise. Best way to avoid being found out

 

[Morkel]

Definition of an opportunistic coward.

 

[Kimlo]

How typical. I'll never have any respect for him because of what he's been involved in and him retiring after the big 3 finish just confirms my opinion of him. He's won one barely legitimate premiership and that's it.

 

[Rally Towel]

Hopefully they flop hard these next few years. Go out with a whimper, not a bang.

 

[Morkel]

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 really 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.

 

[Bull Shark]

wow @ the comments in this thread ....

 

[Bull Shark]

A wikipedia special ....

In 2002, when Broncos' head coach Robert luatua was on State of Origin duty with the Queensland Maroons, Bellamy gained NRL experience as a head coach. Forced to field a team full of young players due to the regular side's representative commitments, the 'Baby Broncos' upset the Wests Tigers.

 

[gordjw]

A wikipedia special ....

In 2002, when Broncos' head coach Robert luatua was on State of Origin duty with the Queensland Maroons, Bellamy gained NRL experience as a head coach. Forced to field a team full of young players due to the regular side's representative commitments, the 'Baby Broncos' upset the Wests Tigers.

I really miss head coach Robert luatua. He was the best.

 

[Nashy]

Upsetting the Wests Tigers isn't a feat. They've been shit for years.

He's a useless coach who only know how to bed the rules to suit him. Now the loop holes are closing, he's got nothing. Won't be sad to see the arrogant **** **** off.

 

[Renegade]

I would've liked to have seen him coach us after Bennett left, but Bruno fucked that one for us.

Whether or not he's nothing without the big three, he's been loyal to Melbourne despite getting much bigger offers, and his players seem to love playing for him (both past and present). I'd suggest he's an excellent man manager that's been able to get the best out of his players, and one with great attention to detail.

Very rarely can you say the Storm have been blown off the park or turned up unprepared, and that's a credit to him as a coach.

 

[Morkel]

I would've liked to have seen him coach us after Bennett left, but Bruno fucked that one for us.

Whether or not he's nothing without the big three, he's been loyal to Melbourne despite getting much bigger offers, and his players seem to love playing for him (both past and present). I'd suggest he's an excellent man manager that's been able to get the best out of his players, and one with great attention to detail.

Very rarely can you say the Storm have been blown off the park or turned up unprepared, and that's a credit to him as a coach.

And when they have been blown off the park, the question is who's been missing every time. When you have that answer, you have the answer to who really is the Storm's coach.

 

[Renegade]

And when they have been blown off the park, the question is who's been missing every time. When you have that answer, you have the answer to who really is the Storm's coach.

bennett - lockyer
any newcastle coach - johns
sheens - marshall

wow it's almost like... when a team loses one of its best players and chief playmakers, they don't do so well.

almost like.. a team is structured around set plays involving set players, and their innate timing of said plays are crucial to the hopes of a side winning or losing.

 

[Cult]

bennett - lockyer
any newcastle coach - johns
sheens - marshall

wow it's almost like... when a team loses one of its best players and chief playmakers, they don't do so well.

almost like.. a team is structured around set plays involving set players, and their innate timing of said plays are crucial to the hopes of a side winning or losing.

When did Lockyer play for the Dragons? Bennett has proven he can do it without Lockyer.

 

[Renegade]

When did Lockyer play for the Dragons? Bennett has proven he can do it without Lockyer.

Purposely being obtuse?

Morkel made the inference that great coaches don't struggle without their star players.

Bennett struggled numerous times without Lockyer at the Broncos, regardless of how he did with the Dragons, hence reinforcing my original point that teams tend to struggle without one of their chief playmakers.

 

[theshed]

There's no question belly is one of the best modern coaches. Sure, Inglis, Slater, Coops, Smith, and Falou were all destend to be superstars but I don't think you should underappreciate his influence. Natural talents come through clubs and fizzle out all the time. I don't doubt Belly had a lot to do with them reaching the heights they have.

You can also claim the reason bit players shine at the storm and fizzle when they leave is thanks to the big 3 but he knows a players strengths and weaknesses and has the intelligence to find the perfect roll for them within the team.


All that being said, he should never live down the cap scandal and how he managed to keep his job when Flannigan has been stood down before any charges have been made is beyond me. I think it's obvious which if the two scandals had the biggest impact on the legitimacy of the comp.

 

[Broncoman]

Whether anyone likes it or not Bellamy is a great club coach and it will be strange to imagine the Storm without him.

Havent been the biggest fan of him. The salary cap scandal, roughhouse tactics, a hopeless rep record complete with some of the strangest selections I've seen, strikes me as arrogant etc.

 

[vertigo]

He came very close to being our coach, and I dare say we would've been a better football team for it for the last 5 years.