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Castleford Tigers’ Sam Wood tries to get hold of\nHull Kingston Rovers’ Joe Burgess.<\/p>\n
Castleford Tigers captain Sam Wood had plenty of questions about why he was forced to go off in his side’s 36-6 loss at Craven Park.Castleford Tigers’ Sam Wood tries to get hold of
\nHull Kingston Rovers’ Joe Burgess.<\/p>\n
Sam Wood admits he still doesn\u2019t know why he received a green card against former club Hull KR<\/a>. The Castleford Tigers captain was ordered off for the obligatory two minutes after receiving on-field treatment in the second half of Saturday\u2019s game<\/a>.<\/p>\n Red-hot Rovers, who finished 36-6 victors, scored another try via Rhyse Martin when the visitors were down to 12 men. It was never going to change the outcome of the contest but centre Wood was confused about why he had to go off after claiming he’d been the victim of a head shot.<\/p>\n The one-time England international, who scored nine tries in 33 games for the Robins over 2022 and 2023, conceded: \u201cI’m not too sure. He [the referee] said that I knocked on as well, but I don’t know. I’m not here to question referees or anything like that.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I’m not too sure on what the ruling was. I got hit in the head and I don’t stay down. I don\u2019t really understand that.\u201d<\/p>\n It was another tough afternoon for Castleford as Rovers chalked off their 18th Super League win of the year. But they did only trail 16-6 at half-time and defended hard for the bulk of the contest.<\/p>\n Wood admitted: \u201cWe were probably just our own worst enemy at times in terms of our discipline and you know a team like Hull KR, you can’t give them too many opportunities when you’ve got the ball.<\/p>\n \u201cYou need to stay in that arm wrestle and try to give them as few opportunities as you can. But I thought everyone was outstanding. There were a lot of guts. It was a bit of a makeshift team.<\/p>\n \u201cFletcher Rooney was meant to play at full-back but Jenson [Windley] came in, and I thought he was outstanding in what he did. I\u2019m just proud of everyone’s efforts, to be honest. \u201d<\/p>\n On a personal level, Wood \u2013 made skipper by former boss Danny McGuire in December \u2013 was pleased to be back in the starting line-up, having been dropped to the bench for the previous two fixtures by interim coach Chris Chester.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cIt was massively important for me to get back in. I’ve still been working hard. I’ve still been training hard and I still want to be a starter. I got an opportunity today. And I thought I was all right.<\/p>\n \u201cWe did show plenty of guts. It was a difficult game. But it was definitely an improvement for me. And, you know, I’ll keep working hard towards the end of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Castleford Tigers captain Sam Wood had plenty of questions about why he was forced to go off in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[30043,5903,20370,101,20449,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-58870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","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\/58870","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=58870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}