Leeds Rhinos coach Rohan Smith

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.