Leeds Rhinos coach Rohan Smith

Coach Rohan Smith gives his thoughts on Leeds Rhinos' 18-10 win over Catalans Dragons at AMT Headingley.

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00:00 It felt a bit like a special win, do you think it was?

00:05 I think all wins are special but yeah there was a lot of grit, teamwork, resilience that

00:13 went into that probably first 20-30 minutes of defending in our own half, some of it by

00:20 our own doing of course, we may be overplaying our hand but I love the bravery of our players

00:26 today to play a bit of footy against a team that are rugged and very good defensively

00:31 in the middle of the field, just to move the ball around and break them up a bit.

00:37 It wasn't without blemish or playing a bit over the top but the defence and the togetherness

00:43 and the teamwork that went into that, I thought we looked pretty calm and composed with most

00:48 of our goal on D.

00:49 I don't think you'd had a play the ball in their half and you turned it around to be

00:54 10-0 up, that shows what you can do when you get the ball in good field position doesn't

00:58 it?

00:59 Yeah well that's the way the game is, you only need a moment sometimes and things shift

01:05 but we gave ourselves a chance to have that moment by turning up defensively and the boys

01:14 did a lot of good hard work this week in preparation for Catalans and yeah Shev taking care of

01:22 that slab D this week, I thought they did a really good job setting the tone early in

01:27 the game and we had probably a little patch there after half time where they were rolling

01:32 us a little bit but overall I thought we tackled really well today.