Wane - it's been fantastic

Assistant coach Shaun Wane dedicated Wigan's two wins under his guidance to absent head coach Michael Maguire.

Maguire is attending his father's funeral in Australia, leaving Wigan-born Wane in temporary charge of the table-topping Warriors.

After the 26-12 win at champions Leeds, Wane said: "I've loved it. I'm Wigan born and bred, to coach my hometown club, even though I've only been caretaker while Madge (Maguire) is away, it's been fantastic!

"The lads have responded really well, I do things slightly different to Madge and they've loved it, we wanted two quality wins and these two wins are for Madge."

Wane added: "Last week the nil scoreline (against Hull) was great, I'm into my defence obviously and the disappointing thing today was the 12 points they scored.

"But we'll have a good look at that, it'll be a tough video session on Monday.

"We hound them about performing to their best all the time and they've ground out a good win, but just those 12 points niggle in the back of my mind."

Wane also revealed that although the league leaders are still a work in progress, they are getting close to where he and Maguire want the Cherry and Whites to be.

Toughness

"This year we've been working on getting an inner-toughness in the team," he said. "We're getting there. It's a big job but we're slowly getting there.

"And to show character like we did today, that's part of showing toughness within the team."

Rhinos coach Brian McClennan said: "I don't think we executed well, they executed a lot better than us. For a period there, even when we were down by eight, our kicking game fell away there.

"All-in-all I just thought we lost the ruck area a little bit, they are very strong in that area.

"They are very strong in the wrestle and we lost quite a bit of possession there, trying to get up and play the ball quicker, through poor technique and poor grip.

"It's something we've got to practice, it's par for the course, we'll make sure we get better at it too."