A frustrated Ryan Carr warned that he will be making changes at Castleford Tigers, irrespective of players’ contract status, with the Australian deeply unimpressed with his side’s performance in defeat to Wakefield Trinity.
Castleford played and hosted the final game of Rivals Round with the Tigers being beaten 34-0 in front of a sold-out home crowd with their collapse coming off the back of Jason Qareqare’s disallowed try at around the 20th minute.
From then, Carr accused his players of showcasing a ‘victim mentality’ with a big focus of his criticism being on the fact that his side were ‘dominated’ physically.
“For me, I’m finding out a lot about certain individuals as we go and as we continue to go through this journey,” Carr said in his post-match presser, shared to the club’s YouTube channel.
“We knew there were going to be some bumps in the road but I’ve spoken to the team about if it continues to happen then we’ll make changes.”
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Carr will have a week to mull over what changes he makes with the club already out of the Challenge Cup, having lost to St Helens in round four of the competition.
Speaking further on his plans for change, Carr said:”I don’t care what people’s contracts are or anything, I’m just going to make changes. That’s what I’m here for. It’s not a threat, it’s just the reality of where we’re at as a group.”
Asked if that meant new recruits, Carr admitted: “We just can’t. Quotas and obviously every club is going through injuries. We had two loan players playing for us today who are going to go back to their club after today.
“We’re at round seven and it’s probably a bit early to be bringing in loan players but for whatever reason, it is what it is.”
Carr also called for caution on the idea of writing the season off, stating: “It was always going to be a tough year because the change of roster and we’ve got to continue to build that. There’s a lot of work being done in the background on ’27 but we can’t just let this go, or today or the week after. It’s really important that we go after every game.”
