Consider it a Craig Bellamy masterstroke. Melbourne arrived on Penrith's home patch as the underdog on Thursday night, but Bellamy played Cameron Munster at fullback and Nelson Asofa-Solomona as an edge backrower. The result of the double-edged shake-up was a 16-0 triumph. As Munster registered 194 run metres, made a linebreak and continually asked questions of the Panthers defence, Asofa-Solomona piled up 130 run metres, including 48 post-contact, churned out 25 tackles and ran damaging lines at Viliame Kikau and Penrith's halves. "He was special tonight," Sonny Bill Williams said . "Those post-contact metres were through the middle of the ruck. I think in that first 20 (minutes) he was special. He laid that platform. "Melbourne coming into this game needed a couple of their big guys to stand up, and he certainly did that, whether that was through the middle or out wide tonight.
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