Leeds Rhinos coach Rohan Smith

Coach Rohan Smith gives his reaction to Leeds Rhinos' 22-16 comeback win at Leigh Leopards.

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00:00 I think, or maybe BBC, I think we all look too much at the scoreboard sometimes instead

00:07 of just looking at the battle and there's a reason it's an 80 minute game.

00:11 Equally last week we were leading at half time and that was good but it's only part

00:18 of the story.

00:19 I thought Lee attacked extremely well, some of their edge combinations were sharp and

00:24 they got us but overall I didn't think there was a lot of players in the game where they

00:34 troubled us too much aside from those really good players and they got the reward for it

00:38 in that first half.

00:39 We spoke at half time about being a bit more direct and tackling with a little bit more

00:45 intent and I thought we did that in the second half and then the physical battle went our

00:52 way, clearly went our way in the second half and we were hard to stop from that point.

00:57 Obviously the attacking play when you got on top was exceptional but the tackle that

01:05 prevented them scoring, I think it was Hanley, at 16-0 before you'd got the scoreboard,

01:11 that was an important moment wasn't it?

01:12 Yeah, certainly a big moment.

01:14 There's fine margins in sport so sometimes you save the try and you get yourself back

01:20 in it or if you concede it at that point it's a long way home so there's good desperation

01:25 to get there and do enough to save the try and from that point I think we capitalised

01:31 on it.

01:32 I think the Ruck was adjudicated on differently at various patches of the game but I thought

01:41 in the end we did enough to win.