{"id":846643,"date":"2026-08-07T09:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T09:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/846643\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T09:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T09:58:14","slug":"star-dragons-trio-in-limbo-after-super-league-coach-stood-down-in-bizarre-circumstances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/846643\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Dragons trio in limbo after Super League coach stood down in bizarre circumstances"},"content":{"rendered":"

Castleford have reportedly reached out to three Dragons stars who are set to join the Tigers from next season amid the Super League\u2019s club investigation into coach Ryan Carr.<\/p>\n

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Carr has been stood down by the Tigers for Castleford\u2019s clash against Hull KR this weekend but very little light has been shed on why, with the club stating vaguely it was due to \u201cpersonal reasons\u201d. <\/p>\n

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Damien Cook, Tyrell Sloan and Matt Feagai have signed contracts for 2027. All three are linked to Carr from his time at the Dragons as an assistant coach.<\/p>\n

According to CODE Sports,<\/a> the three players are concerned with how the investigation may play out. The Tigers are reportedly considering their options for the rest of the season and beyond.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear if the Dragons trio definitely will honour their contracts if Carr departs the club but as per CODE, at this stage, the indication is they plan on upholding their commitments. <\/p>\n

Castleford Head Coach Ryan Carr.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s not known for sure why Carr was stood down, it\u2019s being speculated his eye-raising post-match comments following the Tigers\u2019 loss to Warrington last weekend was a factor.<\/p>\n

Without naming names, the Tigers coach lambested certain \u201cindividuals\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s more of an individual thing than a team thing. Because the team you see is when we really look good, but some individuals need to \u2026 umm, yeah. It\u2019s like two different versions of people,\u201d Carr said after the heavy defeat.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a definite individual thing for certain people out there today that caused things, and that affects the team and then ultimately that\u2019s hard to come back from when you\u2019re down by a big score.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re playing really good and then some common denominators struck again, unfortunately.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the reality, I can\u2019t sugar coat it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Castleford have reportedly reached out to three Dragons stars who are set to join the Tigers from next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-846643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}