Adam Reynolds was despondent and coach Kevin Walter’s extraordinarily dissatisfied after one more journey to Melbourne resulted in damage and defeat for the Brisbane Broncos.
Reynolds revealed he felt hamstring soreness early within the first half earlier than a kick simply earlier than the break ended his night time at AAMI Park with scans to find out his quick taking part in future.
The Brisbane captain fought again tears within the sheds at halftime and after the 34-32 loss couldn’t be certain how dangerous the damage was.
“My hamstring tightened up in that first half,” he mentioned.
“I felt it early on within the sport and it bought worse. I used to be attempting to get by means of to halftime, form of see the place I used to be at after which,, seen a little bit of area on the quick facet.
“So I attempted to take (the kick) and it didn’t really feel too good.
“I don’t understand how dangerous it’s, we’ll get scans and go from there.”
Reynolds may wish to make himself unavailable for all future journeys to AAMI Park after injuring his neck on the similar venue final season.
The Broncos scored 5 tries and had the lead till Storm Scored three late tries together with two within the closing 5 minutes to safe the win. Brisbane haven’t received in Melbourne since 2016.
Walters was able to level the finger at defensive lapses “throughout the entire area” declaring it’s too exhausting to attain six tries in opposition to Melbourne Storm.
“You may’t anticipate to win a sport of footy once they rating that many tries,” he mentioned.
“I imply, there’s loads of effort and I can’t fault them there with their effort and we misplaced Adam at halftime. In order that was a fairly large disruption for us.
“However we simply, simply weren’t fairly there defensively tonight. and that’s essentially the most annoying factor as a result of there’s plenty of effort.
““I really feel sorry for them in there as a result of a lot effort went in, , and simply a few little sloppy areas and concede factors and in opposition to a group just like the Storm who’re at all times at you
“We have to be taught from this tonight and positively be higher shifting ahead.”