Leeds Rhinos coach Brad Arthur reflects on his side's 38-0 hammering at Wigan Warriors.
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00:00He hasn't played full-back for four or five months there, so it was tough on him.
00:05I thought they probably kicked us to death a little bit, so that's an area we need to improve.
00:11You got a foothold in the game in the first half. What changed? What did you change?
00:15We were okay physically there for a period in the middle of that first half.
00:22Like I said, we just couldn't get a penalty or a six to go or another set on the back of those tackle four or fives that we had down there.
00:31We just needed to find a way to get another set there or a fresh set of six.
00:36It was a new start and maybe when it was 10-0 we could have jagged a try and that might have given us a bit more energy.
00:45Was there a message throughout to run the last plays, the tackle five plays, because they just seemed to be going straight to field?
00:52You seemed to scare them when you ran it on the fifth.
00:56Early in the piece we were kicking from our 30-40 middle. It's very hard to try and run it from there, so we had to try and break it up a little bit.
01:06Like I said, they were dominating us physically. We didn't get out of red zone, so we were kicking on that 30-40 middle.
01:13They were catching the ball on their 30-40 and starting their sets in good ball and it just snowballed from there.
01:19This will be the first time you perhaps try and pick them up after a biggish defeat. How will you try and do that this week or next week?
01:27We've just got to stick to what we normally do during the week. We have to review it, be honest, move on from it and find a way.
01:34With our preview and training well, we've still got plenty to play for. You tell me that results went our way, but regardless we've got a bit of pride.
01:44We've played better than that and we don't want to finish like that.