{"id":44279,"date":"2021-03-13T04:04:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T05:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=44279"},"modified":"2021-03-13T05:56:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T05:56:49","slug":"olam-reveals-reason-for-sideways-play-the-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=44279","title":{"rendered":"Olam reveals reason for sideways play-the-ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne Storm centre Justin Olam has revealed the story behind his hilarious brain fade on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/live-scores-2021-melbourne-storm-vs-south-sydney-rabbitohs-start-time-results-news-round-one\/f4ff520f-5716-4023-939c-2c5a34be6c05\" title=\"During the first half of Melbourne&#x27;s 26-18 win over the Bunnies\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">During the first half of Melbourne&#x27;s 26-18 win over the Bunnies<\/a>, Olam got up to the play the ball facing the sideline, much to the chagrin of Craig Bellamy and the amusement of fans and commentators.<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6238832175001\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2021\/03\/347777\/pickerImage.jpg\" alt=\"NRL Highlights: Storm V Rabbitohs - Round 01\" data-vms-id=\"ref:ckm4scf7600000rqiwe0cp8df\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But the incident came just after many fans thought he had knocked the ball on, and it turns out the Papua New Guinea international held the same opinion.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I thought I lost the ball because I dropped it,&quot; Olam told Fox Sports.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Everyone around me was so quiet, that&#x27;s why I put my head down because I wasn&#x27;t feeling good about myself. I turned the ball over because I thought it was a Rabbitohs ball in the heat of the game.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The Rabbitohs went on to score on the following set, but would ultimately come up short &#8211; and ultimately it was a relief to everyone that Olam&#x27;s mistake was not the result of a concussion.<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6238844633001\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2021\/03\/347783\/pickerImage.jpg\" alt=\"Bennett blasts &#x27;awful&#x27; bunnies\" data-vms-id=\"ref:ckm4uvgjl00480itafacz20br\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Everyone sort of thought that I got knocked out [in the tackle], but it&#x27;s going to take more than that to knock me out,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Munster and them they were off me a little bit [for the drop]. It was a little bit embarrassing to be honest, I feel like I let the team down.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If it was a common mistake I would have got over it and moved on, but we conceded a try the next set. [Craig Bellamy] didn&#x27;t say anything to me yet but I&#x27;m pretty sure he&#x27;ll say something on Monday. It&#x27;s an honest play, I should&#x27;ve played to the whistle.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Melbourne Storm centre Justin Olam has revealed the story behind his hilarious brain fade on Thursday night. During the first half of Melbourne&#x27;s 26-18 win <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=44279\" title=\"Olam reveals reason for sideways play-the-ball\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44281,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44279\/revisions\/44281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}