When the defender is behind the ball it gives room for the dummy half to run out and gain extra metres or make a quick pass wide to set up an attacking move - if the defenders have a head start they cut off that run and can slow down the first pass. The Storm face Canterbury Bulldogs at AAMI Park on Monday night and Bellamy said he was still yet to hear back from Archer about the issue and Smith wasn't the only dummy half being troubled by over-zealous markers. "Tony is probably busy so hopefully we can talk to him about that," Bellamy said. "I don't think it's just Cameron Smith either, I just think the markers are not as square as they should be. "We can only go on the games we have seen which is basically our games but I've seen a few other games where markers are getting a little bit next to each other more than behind each other so we are not complaining that it's a thing about Cameron, we think it's happening against all good dummy halves.

"We don't want our creative dummy halves [troubled], you want to give them a bit of room under the rules to do their stuff. I'm sure there will be other coaches saying the same thing." Bellamy also questioned whether the league needed to keep ruling out tries for a receiving player being inside of a dummy runner when receiving a pass - the Storm had a try ruled out under this season and other sides have been stripped of points even when the dummy runner and receiver haven't appeared to have impeded the defence. "My personal opinion is that the rule of catching the ball inside the runner isn't such a good rule," Bellamy said. "We've seen some tries disallowed when that happened, we had one taken off us when we did catch it inside the runner but there was no interference. "I don't like to see us taking tries off but I can see they are trying to make the rule more black and white but they are only taking tries off for it, it's happening in general play and nothing happens.

"I'm not quite sure this interpretation of that rule is a good one for our game." The Storm look poised to stock their bench with forwards to combat the powerful Bulldogs' forward pack with Nelson Asofa-Solomona, Tim Glasby, Felise Kaufusi and Christian Welch on the extended bench along with outside backs Richard Kennar and Ben Hampton. Kennar scored the winning try and was awarded the "player's player" award by his teammates post game but he could still make way with Marika Koroibete coming back and the Storm likely to need three forwards on the bench. But Bellamy believes his side can go blow for blow with the Bulldogs pack if they all focus on the job. "They have some big bodies but I haven't got their bench-press results to know how we match up in upper-body strength wise," Bellamy said.

"Everyone knows they have a really big side but we have a few big bodies as well - hopefully they will make up okay." The Storm play the Bulldogs at AAMI Park on Monday at 7pm.