Willie Peters’ Rovers<\/a> did annihilate them 48-0 in June.<\/p>\nGriffin, 33, said: \u201cWe didn’t have a great performance last week. We know that and we know it\u2019ll be a tough day over at KR.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut what a great opportunity to put in a performance and right a few wrongs. There\u2019s no better way than against a team probably in their best form I\u2019ve seen for some years now.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re playing a great brand of rugby but if you\u2019re going to rewrite things it\u2019s best to do it against the best.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to test ourselves. We\u2019re under no illusions how hard it\u2019ll be but we want to go out and get the spoils.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hardened forward Griffin, who has written two published children’s books in his spare time, started his career with Rovers in 2012, playing two seasons at the East Yorkshire club. He\u2019s delighted to see them now competing for a first-ever Super League title having also just won the Challenge Cup for the first time in 45 years.<\/p>\n
Griffin, who played in a Grand Final with Salford, admitted: \u201cMy time there at KR, it was a great club, really family orientated, and it\u2019s gone from strength to strength since then. It sounds a bit daft but since that year in the Championship in 2017, they\u2019ve just kicked on.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve a few friends at the club who speak very highly of the place.\u201d<\/p>\n
Castleford, though, are at the other end of scale and beginning their own rebuild having surprisingly sacked Danny McGuire last month. New director of rugby Chris Chester, the former Rovers boss, hopes to appoint a new head coach next week.<\/p>\n
Griffin, now in his sixth season at Wheldon Road, said: \u201cWe haven\u2019t performed for a few years, if I\u2019m honest.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to turn things around and that\u2019s from the top all the way down. I think we are doing that now. We\u2019ve got to finish this season but, in the bigger picture, over the next few years Cas should be back in play-off rugby.<\/p>\n
\u201cGiven the new signings I\u2019ve heard are coming in and the ambition of the new board, it seems to be going in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n
And Griffin has reacquainted with Chester having worked together at the Robins more than a decade ago. He said: \u201cHe was assistant to Craig Sandercock back then.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s strange working with him again. We both went our separate ways a fair number of years ago. But it\u2019s good. He\u2019s trying to get some confidence back into the group.\u201d<\/p>\n
The return of ex-Hull full-back Tex Hoy from injury should bolster their chances today but Rovers have only lost three times all season. Griffin is out of contract at Castleford at the end of this campaign.<\/p>\n
On the prospects of staying, he said: \u201cWe\u2019re still talking at the minute. It\u2019s a great place. We\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prop George Griffin, 33, says Tigers are out to ‘right some wrongs’ against Rovers 05:00, 09 Aug 2025Updated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[20448,30043,5903,20370,101,20449,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-54868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-challenge-cup","tag-danny-mcguire","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-league","tag-sports","tag-stobart-super-league","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Castleford Tigers’ George Griffin during the 40-0 hammering at St Helens.<\/p>\n