Leeds Rhinos' Andy Ackers

Leeds Rhinos' Andy Ackers reflects on the win against his hometown club Wigan Warriors.

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00:00How big of a win is that for the team?

00:02Yeah massive, you know six brats come in, he's built some confidence around the team,

00:07you know, changed a few things in our defensive game and today as we were short I think obviously

00:13when you're a bit under pressure and your backs are against the wall I feel like now

00:17growing in confidence we can rely on one another and we've been making a massive point about

00:21looking for, you know, the friendly side of each other so I feel like our defence won us that game.

00:27We had, should we be playing defending in the first half in particular but to nil them

00:31at half-time that must have given us a boost.

00:33Well yeah at half-time obviously it was one of our goals, you know, to carry that 0 with us

00:38and unfortunately we clocked off there towards the end and we got a try in so, but you know,

00:44beat yourself up on those situations, you think of the positives and as Brazz just addressed

00:48then how hard we work for each other, you know, it was Sproul's first time as captain

00:53which is a massive, massive achievement, you know, to a captain in such a great club so

00:58yeah, we did that for him.

01:00In terms of the game, Harry's try was a great team effort to get that try in the first half,

01:05how important was it to get that first try?

01:07Yeah, it was just important obviously, you know, Wiggins are a real tough team,

01:11it's always a challenge when you come up against Wiggins and we knew coming into it this week

01:15that we'd have to get into the grind as soon as possible with them and luckily we got over

01:19the top first and Wiggins pride themselves on that but I think going forward it's something

01:24that we should pride ourselves on, you know, sticking into that grind, completing our sets

01:27and working for each other like I said before.