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Castleford Beat Giants for first Super League Win

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Castleford Tigers (16) 34

Tries: Hood, McIntosh, Lawler, Weaver 2, Golding Goals: Weaver 5

Huddersfield Giants (4) 8

Tries: Gagai, Flanagan

Ashton Golding scored on his Castleford debut against previous club Huddersfield Giants to complete Tigers' very first Super League win of the season.

Tries from Liam Hood, Darnell McIntosh and George Lawler had Tigers travelling inside the opening thirty minutes, but Jacob Gagai pulled one back just before the break to make it 16-4.

Tom Weaver then grabbed two crucial second-half shots, either side of George Flanagan's four-pointer, to put Tigers on the way to sealing a first league win under head coach Ryan Carr.

The greatest celebration of the night was scheduled for Golding, as he crossed for a memorable first shot for his brand-new club versus the side he left after 5 years at the end of last season.

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The early season kind and misery of the West Yorkshire rivals had mirrored one another before their conference at the OneBore Stadium. Both had been winless, meaningless and hit by injuries.

Captain Alex Mellor ended up being the most recent Tiger to be sidelined after he broke his leg in last week's defeat at Toulouse, while Giants lacked a host of hurt regulars themselves, including Liam Sutcliff, Joe Greenwood and Harry Rushton since of lengthy lay-offs.

France international Tanguy Zenon began for injury-hit Huddersfield simply 2 days after signing up with the club, while there were Tigers debuts for Wigan loanee George Hirst and previous Giants pair Jack Ashworth and Golding.

Hood offered the hosts the perfect start, darting from dummy-half to grab his second shot of the season after Joe Stimson was lowered near to the line.

Castleford got a should have second through McIntosh, who rushed through a defence that had been pinned back on their line after Taane Milne handed out a careless charge for his high hit on Krystian Mapapalangi.

Milne remained in the sin-bin when Lawler crashed over under the posts for Castleford's 3rd shot in the 26th minute, but after that it was Huddersfield who completed the half more powerful, with Zenon denied by a try-saving deal with from Mikaele Ravalawa before Gagai eventually responded with a 38th-minute score.

Huddersfield continued to threaten but were wasteful looking for a way back into the game before Weaver got on completion of a remarkably weighted grubber kick from Daejarn Asi to edge Castleford 18 points ahead.

Flanagan provided Giants restored hope when he countered not long after, however a second from Weaver put the outcome beyond doubt before Golding crashed over to trigger wild events.

'We bet this winning sensation' - response

Castleford Tigers head coach Ryan Carr informed BBC Radio Leeds:

"That's what we bet, we play to win and play for this sensation right now.

"I'm actually delighted for my group and actually pleased for everyone involved in our club due to the fact that a great deal of work has gone into getting to this point. And there will continue to be a lot more work.

"But to be able to see them with a smile on their faces, with all the effort they have actually done considering that day one of pre-season, is satisfying.

"But it is one win, we have to keep making certain we carry out consistently each week now."

"I thought we were rubbish, as plain and basic as that.

"We simply robbed ourselves of energy with the amont of dropped balls that we had in that very first half. The lads strove, but they were exhausted.

"I think they finished 100% [of their sets] in the second half, and we completed around 60-odd. If you just offer the opposition the ball over and over once again, you are going to get the very same outcome.

"Eventually it simply robs you of energy and you are generally using fumes.

"Look, they are running around, scrambling and attempting their hardest however eventually it simply returns to bite you. We simply need to learn and require to learn quick."

Castleford Tigers: Cini, Ravalawa, Mapapalangi, McIntosh, Qaraqare, Asi, Weaver, Atoni, Hood, Westerman, Lane, Hirst, Stimson.

Replacements: Lawler, Ashworth, Hall, Golding.

Huddersfield Giants: Patolo, Woolford, Rogers, O'Donnell, Billington, Powell, Russell, Lolohea, Halsall, Milne, Gagai, Zenon, Flanagan.

Replacements: Burgess, King, Rush, English.

Referee: Matty Lynn.