LIVE: Storm blowout looms over awful Knights

Newcastle bizarrely opts to kick a penalty goal on the stroke of half time to make it 26-2 to the Storm.

Melbourne has made a mockery of the Knights in the first 40, and this scoreline could be anything by full time.

“I don’t know where (coach) Adam O’Brien goes at half-time, I really don’t,” Michael Ennis said.

“Newcastle really have to put their bodies in front… at the moment Newcastle is not committing in defence.”