Castleford Tigers boss Ryan Carr refused to comment on any controversial referee calls that may have occurred in this evening’s defeat to Leigh Leopards.
The Tigers lost out 24-14 to Adrian Lam’s men, who now go level on points with Wigan in sixth place.
Castleford started the game well, being 8-0 up after 20 minutes, but a dubious obstruction call on Jason Qareqare followed by a missed elbow to the face by Jack Hughes on Krystian Mapapalangi were just a few of the questionable refereeing calls in the first half.
As a result, the field position gave Leigh a great opportunity to score, and their clinicalness allowed them to score 16 unanswered points before the break, giving them an eight-point lead at half-time.
Asked to give an opinion on some of the contentious decisions, the boss said to Sky Sports: “You won’t drag me into it. You know what I think about it. I’m not going to talk about it.
“I’ll talk to you after privately about it, and we’ll have our conversation in honesty because then I won’t get in trouble and I won’t get fined.”
Whilst calls may or may not have gone their way, the fact of the matter is that the Tigers just couldn’t respond to that adversity, and they allowed Leigh to storm down field off the back of penalties conceded and errors made.
Carr knows his side needs to be better in that area, as ultimately that is what cost them in a tight-knit game like that.
“Just a couple of penalties and then [we] legged them up out of the yardage, and then we just didn’t defend our penalties well enough.
“I think that first try we [blew], we created man on man. We had enough. We just got to execute. These are the moments I’m talking about. We’re going to execute those plays.
“Every play they got points there, in the end. They executed that play better than we did. If we got our play right, we would have probably made a line break off it.
“So, that’s probably a learning for us. But effort was certainly high, which I’m pleased with.”
Carr is still just 13 league games into a three-year contract, and he knows that good things will come, they just have to be patient and give his side time to develop into a cohesive unit.
“We know where we’re going, but it doesn’t take away the disappointment of tonight,” he revealed.
“I think if we, like I said, got a few moments, right, I think we’re probably winning that game on that scoreline that they did. So, that was the difference tonight, unfortunately.”
