Brian Smith Team Quotations

Going into the state tournament, we're ranked fifth or so. Every guy's going to need to win a match, and more than a few need to be pretty high on that podium so that we can reach our team goals.

I think any way you look at that, for them to lose a player of that quality in their team from that position in their team should have been a huge advantage for us.

I thought our team played with great courage and conviction against Wasps so we've decided to reward their efforts and give them another shot this weekend against Saracens,

We want to be a top-four team but on this evidence we've still got plenty of work to do. We've lessons to learn from this.

The whole day I was thinking we had to win. You're going to lose sometimes. I know this team will bounce right back.

I love to see Tony doing so well at Leeds because, when I was coaching in England, and particularly during my time at Hull, they were always the team everyone hated, ... The perception was of Leeds being the millionaire club who never quite did it.