With skipper Kevin Sinfield absent with a deadleg, Smith added the conversion but Rovers dug in to ensure that the Rhinos were not going to have things all their own way.
Former Great Britain rugby league captain Farrell will miss the match after picking up a calf strain, while he has been joined on the sidelines by Barkley after the Bath man picked up a deadleg during training.
St Helens entered the game with a depleted squad after Kyle Eastmond's groin problem meant that he joined dead-leg victims Jonny Lomax, Chris Flannery and Tommy Makinson on the sidelines.
It was reported that a migratory bird - a common European bee-eater - caused alarm in a village in south-eastern Turkey after it was found dead in a field with a metal ring around its leg stamped "Israel".