Consistency is key for Castleford Tigers, says Ryan Carr

RYAN CARR wants to see Castleford Tigers become more consistent as they bid to climb the Super League table.

A poor second-half performance proved their undoing against newcomers York Knights, the visitors fighting back to claim a 20-14 victory – their first at the West Yorkshire club in more than 50 years.

Following that match, in which Castleford had hoped to build on their 36-18 home victory over Toulouse Olympique, Carr bemoaned his side’s “schoolboy errors”, believing a failure to do the fundamentals well was their downfall.

“It was more poor management of the game, not really effort,” he explained.”Our attitude was alright. I thought our effort was good in a lot of areas.

“It was more about not doing the fundamentals of the game well. That’s not really a team thing, sometimes it’s an individual thing in that moment. We’ve addressed that and we move forward.”

Castleford hope to bounce back against local rivals Wakefield Trinity at Magic Weekend on Sunday and avenge their 34-0 home defeat back in April.

“I want to make sure that we get our attitude right and our performance right, that’s all we’re focusing on this week,” stressed Carr, who admitted patchy form and results are a reflection of where the club are currently at.

“The consistency part is the key. The best team in any competition or in any sport in the world do things really well always, not sometimes on one week and not the next.

“That’s something we’re learning some hard lessons on, but hopefully we’ll come out the other side of it better for it.”