Warrington head coach Sam Burgess speaking to BBC Radio Merseyside:<\/p>\n
“They are a great side but I thought the first half scoreline didn’t really reflect the game. They won three moments in breaking us down – it was a couple of kicked tries and a missed tackle. <\/p>\n
“We did look clunky and I can accept that but they made us pay in the second half when they were by far the better side and when they get in a mood like that they are very hard to handle.<\/p>\n
“I am quite happy they didn’t get past 50. At a point in the second half everything was sticking, they were winning everything and every offload was going to hand and there was a point where I thought it could be very dangerous.<\/p>\n
“So obviously I wasn’t happy with 34 points but I was happy we strangled the game back.<\/p>\n
“We had a tough night and they made us pay. We looked like a young team against a very experienced team but I’m relaxed about that. We were the second best team but it is not often I’ve said that all year.”<\/p>\n
Leeds Rhinos head coach Brad Arthur speaking to BBC Radio Leeds:<\/p>\n
“I like the fact that the team is becoming very reliable. The boys can look around the dressing sheds and know what they are going to get which is a big thing to build a bit of belief.<\/p>\n
“We have had to focus over the last few weeks about being a bit more professional in our away performances and again I felt that we were getting closer to that tonight. <\/p>\n
“I thought our resilience was good and a step in the right direction and lastly I thought our starting middles were physically very very good tonight.<\/p>\n
“I am so pleased for Maika (Sivo). He is such a likeable person. He has worked really hard on his weight – keeping it manageable around the 109 kilos mark. <\/p>\n
“He hasn’t got an ounce of fat on him but he is a big man and the leaner he can be the more we can get out of him and he’s worked really hard on that.”<\/p>\n
Warrington: Thewlis, Ashton, Lindop, Smith, Hopoate, Hayes, Irwin; Thomas, Walker, Byrne, Harrison, Bentley, Currie<\/p>\n
Interchanges: Powell, Sipley, Crowther, Tanginoa<\/p>\n
Leeds: Miller, Hall, Newman, Handley, Sivo, Croft, Connor; Oledzki, Levi, Palasia, Hankinson, McDonnell, Watkins<\/p>\n
Interchanges: Jenkins, O’Connor, Smith, Cassell<\/p>\n
Referee: Liam Moore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warrington head coach Sam Burgess speaking to BBC Radio Merseyside: “They are a great side but I thought…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-646585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}