Melbourne are a fantastic team, Slater, Cronk, Smith will go down as legends and the supporting cast they have isn't half bad either. The performance tonight was poor, but did you honestly expect the Broncos to win? Without Milford, Oates and Boyd? Whatever hope they had was gone as soon as McGuire left the field.
Melbourne will probably take out the premiership in 2017, but there's still plenty of time between now and October and there really isn't a number two side. If the Broncos can recover from their worst performance of the season, get their best players on the field and play the brand of football we know they're capable of, anything is possible.
What I don't care for is the sour grapes that occurs when the Storm beat us. Either we can continue to delude ourselves into thinking they're a dirty team and we're being unfairly treated, or we can face up to the facts. They were far too good, we were poor...there's still plenty of footy to be played.