Ryan Carr has again been left feeling the need to apologise to his Castleford Tigers fans after another poor showing this weekend.
The Tigers were defeated 34-0 on home turf by Wakefield Trinity, who scored seven tries including two from former Cas half-back Jake Trueman.
Only one player managed to make over 100 metres, that being centre Krystian Mapapalangi, who again was the club’s best player and is a shining light in what has been such a poor team at the start of 2026.
Castleford are now bottom of the table on points difference, and the rebuild of the club is proving to be a much harder task than maybe Carr expected. Injuries haven’t helped, but like in the defeat to Warrington there are some senior players who just haven’t stepped up enough.
Speaking to Sky Sports post-match, Carr was of very few words, highlighting what he thought of the performance. He started by first saying: ” I feel bad for our fans who come out in big numbers here today.
“We let them down, and that’s what hurts the most, I suppose.
“I thought we started really well today. We were in the contest there. That disallowed try was a bit of a momentum killer when Gary [Jason Qareqare] in the corner there got overturned, and then physically from there we just lost the battle, unfortunately, in our collision.
“They’ve got some big bodies, and like I said, physically we didn’t handle them well enough.”
In contrast to the Castleford pack, Trinity did well to stop any sort of Castleford attack before it got too threatening, and that mostly came down to the work the middles did in getting up off the line early to halt any momentum.
“They did a good job to wrap in our face as soon as we caught the ball, and the play of the ball was, a bit of a slow play of the ball today, and that just sort of allowed them to get their plan right,” Carr said as he now heads into a week off with perhaps more questions than he did at the start of the Easter weekend.
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