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Sam Kosack • May 11th, 2025 6:16 pm
The Melbourne Storm have equalled their biggest winning margin in club history in a 64-0 obliteration of the Wests Tigers.
The records continued to fall with Ryan Papenhuyzen breaking Matt Geyer’s 26-year old record for most individual points in a game for the Storm, scoring 36 of the Storm’s 64 points.
Papenhuyzen’s incredible showing consisted of four tries and 10 goals, meaning he outscored every other winning team so far this week.
The Storm put on a clinical showing, controlling the contest from the third minute where Ryan Papenhuyzen scored his first try, kicking three times to outrace three Tigers’ players to the line.
A Xavier Coates line break found Papenhuyzen back on the inside to lay on his second in the eighth minute, before Coates collected a short line drop-out and put Papenhuyzen through a gaping hole to complete a 16-minute hat-trick.
Papenhuyzen’s standout performance in such a dominant win throws his name into Origin contention, battling alongside James Tedesco and Dylan Edwards for the Blues fullback jersey.
SEN League’s Justin Horo said Papenhuyzen wouldn’t let anyone down in the Origin arena.
“The most impressive thing with what Ryan Papenhuyzen did there, a lot of those plays, and particularly the first one, he’s just all effort,” Horo said.
“I said jokingly going into the game, he could score five tries and he’s not a part of my Origin team but he has to be there abouts.
“I know Dylan Edwards deserves to be the guy and (Tedesco) has been applying pressure this year but if anything were to happen or if anyone were to put Ryan Papenhuyzen into a blue jersey, he’d do a job.”
Storm prop Nelson Asofa-Solomona returned for his second NRL game of the season after a long recovery from a concussion sustained in round three and found immediate joy, skittling Wests Tigers defenders on every run, running for 125 metres and notching a try of his own in 36 minutes.
The Storm were coming off the back of two disappointing losses which saw them give up double-digit leads.
Despite the wild trend of comebacks in Round 10 - the Titans, Rabbitohs, and Bulldogs all overcoming double digit deficits at halftime to win - there would be no comeback for the Wests Tigers today.
SEN's Jimmy Smith praised the Storm’s record-breaking outing.
“We laugh about the whole Craig Bellamy not being happy at any tage but he’d be happy with every stage of this,” Smith said.
“Overall, the attention to detail, the effort areas when required, and the ability to go with either set plays or a lot of the time it was skill coming to the fore. They have put the rest of the competition on notice.
“The scary thing is the fact they did it without Harry Grant who is a vital cog in this Melbourne Storm team.”
The Storm's first halves at home this season have been incredible, with a 40-point lead over the Eels, 36-point lead over the Warriors, and 34-points today amongst their half-time leads.
