Leeds Rhinos coach Rohan Smith

Disappointed Leeds Rhinos coach Rohan Smith reflects on his side's 40-10 defeat at St Helens.

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00:00Rowan, what was your take on your team's performance?

00:10Overall, it wasn't the standard. It was a tactic game to start with. We were in some

00:17control in a hard-fought first 20-30 minutes. The first half, application and effort was

00:32good. Execution was a bit off. In the second half, we just got off to a really bad start

00:39with some errors. Then they put on some good plays back-to-back, which made the scoreboard

00:45out of our favour. I was really disappointed with the way that we lost our connection defensively.

00:57People were doing some things on their own and that just made things worse, not better.

01:04How frustrating are errors like that from your perspective as a coach?

01:08Some of them are just totally in our control. There are always going to be errors in the

01:12game, forced by collisions or difficult situations, but several of them were just personal attention

01:22to taking care of it. We just made too many back-to-back errors and it's been an issue for us.

01:29When you were 6-0 up, was that Matt Foley pass that just went to ground? Was that maybe

01:33the key moment because it could have been 12-0?

01:37Yes, there are big moments in big games and you've got to take more of those moments than you don't.

01:45That was a big moment, but there were plenty of big moments. Even fighting back to make it 24-10,

01:52there's still some chance that game can get close, but we just weren't good enough.