If the Melbourne Storm are to continue the stunning run of success in Round 1 matches they will have to do it with a team that bears little resemblance to the one that bowed out at the qualifying final stage last year.
Brothers Jesse and Kenny Bromwich wore the Storm jersey with pride on 511 occasions before making the move to new club the Dolphins, where they’ll be joined by star back-rower Felise Kaufusi, who played 173 games and won two premierships in Melbourne after debuting in 2015.
Throw in injured trio Justin Olam, Tui Kamikamica and Marion Seve and you have eight changes to the team that lost 28-20 to the Raiders at AAMI Park. After beating the Eels in the 2008 decider, the Storm entered round one in 2009 without three key forwards in Jeremy Smith , Michael Crocker and Antonio Kaufusi as well as a couple of handy centres in Matt Geyer and Israel Folau .
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