Hoodoo-busting Warriors compound Storm's slump in iconic win

The Warriors powered to their first win over Melbourne since 2015 in emphatic style at AAMI Park.

The streak is over, the Warriors’ premiership bid is back on track, the Melbourne empire is in tatters and Andrew Webster looks to have a bundle of tricky selection headaches in his near future.

Those are the glowing upshots of the Warriors’ 38-14 demolition of the Storm – their biggest-ever victory in the rivalry – as a 17-match losing run and 11 years of pain came to a spectacular halt.

The Warriors raced to an early 10-point lead, gave it up just as quickly and were 18-14 in front at the end of a frantic first half. Twenty unanswered points in better than even time blew the shellshocked Storm off their AAMI Park fortress after the break.

But it was a stirring subsequent seven-minute goal-line stand with the result essentially wrapped up that will arguably live longest in the memory. Rarely has a Warrior teams looked as bellicose or bullishly self-assured as they repelled the Storm repeatedly with a mix of brutality and good defensive cohesion.

Holding the perennial heavyweights scoreless in the second stanza more than made up for failing to add to their own tally after the hour mark.

The Storm took an early 2-0 lead after Wayde Egan was fortunate not to be sin-binned for obstructing Sua Faalogo on a dangerous trick play.