Leeds Rhinos coach Rohan Smith reflects on his side's 50-0 home defeat by Wigan Warriors.
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00:00 Good arm wrestle the opening period I thought.
00:03 Got beaten to the punch a little bit on a couple of kick plays.
00:08 The RF one that went a long way.
00:12 A lot of replays on that one, but yeah,
00:14 we were second best against a very, very strong Wigan team.
00:18 But I thought there's a lot of players in our group that are doing their best for
00:25 the team at the moment.
00:26 They're trying hard, playing out of position or playing more minutes than was expected.
00:32 The blokes in that group are tight and together,
00:36 despite lack in execution today in key moments.
00:42 Is it a case of it was on the strength team,
00:45 inexperienced team or does it go a little bit deeper than that?
00:50 Well, that was today's performance.
00:52 We've had a lot of close games all pretty much all year.
00:56 We played against an opposition that are firing.
01:00 And as I said, a lot of our players have been to a place where they haven't been
01:04 before this year.
01:05 Some of them are getting asked to play in a new position or more minutes,
01:10 bigger role, given the people that have departed.
01:15 There's a lot of spirit in that group and they're a proud group.
01:18 We'll start again and build up to have good performance next week.
01:22 How do you approach that?
01:24 Obviously, it's not going to be easy to get the chins off the floor.
01:26 Is it for a really tough game away at that capsule?
01:29 Every game in Super League is a tough one and we treat it that way.
01:34 It will take a few days and you never forget those times of days.
01:37 They stay there.
01:38 You just learn how to deal with it better and you take something out of it.
01:43 You learn and a lot of the younger players particularly and
01:47 experienced players are still going to learn something out of today if they
01:51 choose to, which they will, and then we'll get on with it.
01:54 In some professional sports, without that, you're going to have some bad days and
01:59 you front up and fight through it.