Bigger things had been expected of this Red Storm team.
The Bulldogs played zone defenses throughout the game to challenge a Red Storm team that came in shooting 45.6percentt.
This season's Red Storm team is a mystery, and at least some fans preferred to wait before showing up.
Last night a Red Storm team that has struggled this season finally played as if it belonged with the sport's elite.
This season's Red Storm team is fighting all the inconsistencies of youth, and Jarvis has already begun preparing his players for next month's Big East tournament.
In last year's World Club Challenge, Leeds did outstandingly well to beat a Melbourne Storm team whose motivation was also unquestionable in a compelling 11-4 battle.
The same can be said about a Red Storm team with an unlikely record of 18-8 that is perhaps two victories from returning to the N.C.A.A. tournament.
"People are surprised so many fans come to games but for those who know netball it's no surprise and I see fixtures being held at bigger venues across the country in the near future," said Tamsin Greenway, player/coach of the victorious Storm team.
Melbourne's coach Craig Bellamy strikes me as a similar sort of character to Ricky Stuart, the former Kangaroo half-back who was in charge of that Roosters team - feisty, cantankerous and competitive, and not the sort of bloke who would enter his Storm team in a World Club Challenge unless he was pretty confident they could win it.
Lost in the investigation of possible rules violations is a Red Storm team that has won six consecutive games to run its record to 19-6 and position itself to be seeded as high as No. 3 when the N.C.A.A. tournament starts in three weeks.
He has a namesake from New South Wales who has arguably displaced the veteran Brisbane Broncos guru Wayne Bennett as the leading rugby league coach in the world, and who has brought his Melbourne Storm team back to Leeds this weekend aiming to put right the 11-4 defeatheyey suffered against the Rhinos in the World Club Challenge two years ago.
