Bellamy's Semi-Final rundown

Catch up on all the best bits from Craig Bellamy's chat with the media ahead of Storm's Semi-Final clash with the Roosters.

Squad energy throughout the week 

“We've had pretty good week at training. So, hopefully they'll transfer it on field tomorrow night.”  

“We were really disappointed with what happened last week, so hopefully we can come back from that.” 

“They seem fairly energetic, but sometimes it's hard to get an accurate assessment of training but, I think it's been good this week. Hopefully we can bounce back.” 

Update on Jahrome Hughes 

“Hughesy was running this morning but we'll just see how he pulls up. To be honest, he's probably unlikely, but we'll just see how he pulls up this afternoon after the run and then we'll go from there.” 

“[Tyran Wishart] has done most of the training there today. We’ve also got a couple of other options we can use.”  

Continuing rivalry with the Roosters 

“We've played against each other in a lot of big games - a lot of their big games have been against us and us against them. It's been happening for a while and we've certainly got great respect for the Roosters and how they keep backing up each year.” 

“At the end of the day we're just hoping to go out there tomorrow night and play our best footy and and see where that takes us.” 

“We're not worrying about Penrith and the Broncos at the moment. We need to get our minds on the Roosters. So that's all we're worried about this week.” 

“At the end of the day, it's anything could happen in September and we're not looking at late September, we're looking at this week and tomorrow night. That's all our focus is.” 

Return of Justin Olam and Reimis Smith 

“It wasn't easy leaving them out to be quite honest, because they've done such a good job over a long period of time, but I just felt we needed to do it.” 

“So we've done it, but hopefully they'll be all excited about tomorrow night and you know, having that experience out there. It'll be good for the team.” 

“They've been playing pretty good up in in Queensland with the feeder teams so they've gone up there...and have been better at it.”  

Young players in their first elimination final 

“Our whole team has been young all year. We lost a lot of experience in our team last year so we knew that there was going to be a certain period at different times of a lot of young blokes or a lot of guys haven't played a lot of first grade.” 

“I think you know they've done a really good job during the season.”