Castleford Tigers 6, Leeds Rhinos 29: Brad Arthur press conference.

Leeds Rhinos coach Brad Arthur reflects on his side's 29-6 win at Castleford Tigers.

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00:00Assessing what it looked like in the fields, please.

00:04I thought it was pretty professional.

00:06Made limited errors, played good field position.

00:10We talked about just making sure we get to the end of the tackle count.

00:14I wasn't too familiar with the short field,

00:17but we just focused on getting to the end of the tackle count

00:20and that's where all our points would come on the end of the tackle count.

00:25We put a bit of work into them earlier.

00:27I thought they were broke. They really had a crack in the first half.

00:31We just think weight of possession and the amount of work they had to do took its toll on them.

00:36But that's a credit to our guys on being patient and being professional to play like that.

00:42That word patience, we've mentioned it at times already in the season,

00:45how you seem to grind particularly in that first half hour.

00:48We're getting better.

00:50They need to understand that we don't need to be winning on the scoreboard

00:53ten minutes into the game, it doesn't matter.

00:55We need to build our games and then we come back out in the second half

00:59and try and build again.

01:00We had a missed tackle which they scored a length of field trial

01:04which we're not happy about.

01:05But overall we had a couple of red zone penalties in the first half

01:09to let them out of their half which we talked about and adjusted

01:13and got that right in the second half.

01:15They didn't roll over and just gift us the game, we had to work hard for it.

01:21How frustrating was the start of that second half and that try again?

01:26It's frustrating but everyone's chasing that perfect eight minutes and you're never going to get it.

01:31So that's what it is. Our response was good, we just had to start again.

01:34It was a one off. Usually Crofty's a very good defender.

01:38If you got it wrong, he'll learn from it.

01:41I've got to ask you about Sam Sonny.

01:43That's some impact in his two cents today.

01:46Yeah, really good. I think the last month his football has been pretty good coming on.

01:52We've probably played better to the conditions for Sam today.

01:55You know, look, there's no point in bringing him on

01:57and like we did last week to start the second half

01:59and with our first three sets we made errors

02:01and we spent the first eight minutes defending our trial line last week.

02:05You know, that's not what we need Sam doing.

02:07You know, he's doing a good job defensively when he's there with his effort areas

02:10but he's obviously got a very damaging carry so we need to get the ball in our hands.