Morgan Gannon injury update from Leeds Rhinos coach Brad Arthur

Peter Smith

Speaking after Leeds Rhinos' 18-4 loss at St Helens, coach Brad Arthur reveals an injury scare, explains a substitute decision and comments on a call by the match officials.

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00:00Did you say it was a spray at half-time?

00:04No, it wasn't a spray because I don't know that it was going to make much difference.

00:10We just talked about that it was probably our worst 40 minutes.

00:14It was embarrassing.

00:15And we had 40 minutes to just chase a performance, not the scoreboard.

00:19And unfortunately, we continued to chase the scoreboard.

00:22We got ourselves back to 8-4, but it just didn't feel likely.

00:25They just felt like they were working harder than us.

00:28I was going to say, did you feel there was a legitimate chance at 8-4 to turn it around?

00:33Oh, look, if we could have jagged a try here or there,

00:35sometimes the bounce of the ball and some things go against you.

00:38But when your attitude's good, those things go for you.

00:42And when your attitude's not, they just seem to build up

00:44and find a way to keep working against you.

00:48So is this a kick up the backside, a reality check, a reset?

00:52Yeah, look, it's 80 minutes, we're disappointed.

00:55But we need to move on from it.

00:56And, you know, like I've said, the only thing that's really important now

01:00is we don't get that 80 minutes back, unfortunately.

01:03But we get a chance to respond.

01:05You've got players chomping at the bit to get involved.

01:07Would you be looking potentially to make changes for next time?

01:11Oh, look, it's too early to talk about that.

01:12I think these guys are the number of credit.

01:15But, you know, they've got to understand that every weekend,

01:20every 80 minutes counts.

01:22It all matters.

01:23And what was the situation with Morgan as well?

01:25That he didn't come up for the second half?

01:26Yeah, something to do with his shin.

01:28So we need to send him for scans and x-ray just to, yeah, to check that.

01:34Something that's resulted from the game?

01:35Yeah, no, he got, there was a tackle there that someone fell on his lead

01:39and he just got put in an awkward position.

01:41So we've just got to check his shin, yeah.

01:45Okay.

01:46Did Mikulenski get a knock?

01:48No, I was just at the back end of the game.

01:50I thought, well, we needed, you know, we were chasing points.

01:55We were trying to win the game.

01:56So, you know, it makes a good, tough, hard worker.

01:58We needed to play so that we could probably try and create.

02:02And even at the end of the game, the job is to try and,

02:05even if it's hard, we try and find a way where we can scrap the win

02:09and then deal with it later.

02:11So it's just trying to have all the guys out there

02:13who've got a bit of ball playing them.

02:16Were there a couple of errors in the first half playing the ball

02:19that they must be particularly frustrating?

02:22Especially when we've worked really hard in the pre-season

02:24and done a lot of penalties around it.

02:26And, like I said, I think that comes back to your concentration,

02:31which is in the first military.

02:33Have you any thoughts on the incident, the captain's challenge?

02:37And that sort of thing, you'd expect the referee probably to refer it

02:40to the video ref and it costs you a challenge.

02:43He obviously referred the rival one try, which looked like a try.

02:46Or I think you would most of the time, yeah, you'd go to the video ref.

02:51I think, you know, there was one where we looked like we run dead

02:54and they stopped the game and went to the video ref.

02:56So I don't know why you wouldn't go to the video ref

02:58on a try-scoring opportunity.

03:01I know it was obviously the same for both teams with the heat,

03:04but do you think that had any effect?

03:06Oh, it's a choice.

03:07You can choose whether you want to make it an effect or not,

03:10and obviously we did.

03:10Thank you, bro.

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