Castleford Tigers head coach Ryan Carr has slammed his side’s performance in the 72-6 defeat to Warrington Wolves, a result that he labelled as ‘embarrassing’.
The Tigers shipped twelve tries with second-rower Kelepi Tanginoa scoring four and returnee Matty Ashton scoring a hat-trick on his first performance in 314 days.
From the off, it was Warrington who were the more dominant and urgent team with Castleford 20-0 down after 20 minutes before Semi Valemei’s try offered some hope.
Wire would score two more before half-time and then seven in a second-half shutout with Carr reacting post-match on Sky Sports as he called out the performance.
“That’s probably the worst performance I’ve ever been associated with as a coach,” the Australian said.
“I’m super disappointed and I feel sorry for our fans, our club and our members who spend their hard-earned money to come and watch that. Just disappointing.”
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‘No excuses’ for Castleford Tigers’ sorry performance
Asked about what he felt went wrong, Carr pointed to a ‘victim mentality’ among his players in scathing words that will cut deep but may not be totally inaccurate.
He said: “At the start of the game we were playing it how we wanted and then a few things went against us and we just had that victim mentality out there, with people feeling sorry for themselves.
“We’ve got to have a good look at ourselves. There is no one else to blame. We’ve got to look in the mirror and make sure we don’t skim past that game, we need to learn from it.”
Brought in to Castleford to breathe new life, it seems similar problems to 2025 remain and when asked if he has inherited issues from 2025 at the Tigers, Carr was careful with his words but underlined the fact the performance wasn’t up to scratch.
He said: “That’s a good question and I’ll have to have a good think about it. That performance was what has happened here previously and we can’t accept it, and I won’t accept it.
“At the same time we’ve got to make sure we put a better performance out week in and week out and not have these games where we turn up and get blown off the park. They taught us a lesson in a lot of areas.”
His post-match assessment on BBC was less brutal but maybe more blunt, stating:”Yeah, it was horrible. They played really well, we played really poor. That sums it up.”
He also refused to use the loss of Joe Stimson (HIA) early on as an excuse, adding: “There’s no excuse to it. I’m not going to sit here and make excuses. It hurts to lose a middle but at the end of the day we didn’t make the decision to go out there and put our body on the line and go after it.”
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