Canberra Raiders News

Storm coach Craig Bellamy urges team to play fully to end five-game losing streak against Rabbitohs in Round 8.

Zero Tackle

Frustrated Storm coach Craig Bellamy knows his side must execute for longer, if they are to end a five-game losing streak in their Round 8 home clash against the Rabbitohs on Saturday night. 

Melbourne has not tasted victory since its Round 2 thrashing of the Dragons on March 14. Since then, the Storm have lost to the Broncos, Cowboys, Panthers, Warriors and Raiders; the first time since 2012 they have dropped five on the bounce.

Bellamy's side is in unchartered waters, sitting 15th on the table, and the Storm mentor is desperate to turn things around before it gets too late.

"We just seem to find ways of not playing for the 80 minutes, we're playing 50 or 60 minutes" Bellamy said on Friday.

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Raiders' Tom Starling condemned social media abuse targeting his partner after a match incident, urging trolls to focus on players instead.

Fox League

Raiders star Tom Starling has called out an ugly rant from a social media troll that included abuse aimed at his partner after his scuffle with Tigers flyer Sunia Turuva.

In the aftermath of the Tigers' 33-14 win at Leichhardt oval, Starling and Turuva were caught in a heated moment and had to be separated by teammates, but the pair left it on the field.

However, Starling and his partner were subjected to disgusting abuse from a social media user, who launched an ugly attack on the Raiders star's Instagram account.

Starling published the ugly comments on his Instagram story calling out the vile behaviour.

"Say what you want about the players, leave women out of it, don't be this guy," Starling wrote on his Instagram story.

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Tom Starling condemned misogynistic abuse aimed at him and his partner after a loss, urging respect for women on social media.

The Canberra Times

Canberra Raiders hooker Tom Starling has called out vile, misogynistic abuse directed at him and his partner following the loss to Wests Tigers on Thursday night.

Starling took to social media to call out the abuse - some of which is so disgusting it can't be printed in The Canberra Times.

The 27-year-old Raider showed his leadership by calling out the abuse from Instagram account "bigdonbaz", which seems to have been shut down since.

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