In fact, speaking to Wide World of Sports for Immortal Behaviour, Johns said the Storm might have to "blow the club up and start again"."Cameron Smith hasn't really said if he's going to play on or not," Johns said."But it's the end of an era and you can't replace those players, so they have to blow the club up and start again, especially their attack, how they attack differently."For me I think they're about to come back to the field."Johns' prediction comes off the back of a grand final performance that had the Nine commentator scratching his head as he watched Melbourne fail to exploit an injured Cooper Cronk in an opening 30
minutes that he described as "the worst I've seen Melbourne Storm play for probably 10 years"."Once again, I called for it last year in Origin II when JT had hurt his shoulder," Johns said, pointing to the Blues' inability to target Johnathan Thurston."I couldn't believe Melbourne missed the opportunity to manipulate the injury and the weakness of Cooper Cronk. " ... they just had to get two big men opposite Cooper, to run inside and out Cooper, make him make tackles. Then what happens is, you manipulate the gaps on either side."The Storm's inability to get at Cronk played into the hands of the Roosters who flew out of the blocks and established a first half lead the Storm never looked capable of whittling down.
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