{"id":668048,"date":"2026-07-01T14:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668048\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T14:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:08:14","slug":"wakefield-trinity-and-castleford-tigers-bosses-reveal-early-selection-news-ahead-of-magic-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668048\/","title":{"rendered":"Wakefield Trinity and Castleford Tigers bosses reveal early selection news ahead of Magic Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Castleford Tigers boss Ryan Carr is considering team changes for Sunday\u2019s Magic Weekend derby, while opponents Wakefield Trinity could have players back from injury.<\/p>\n

Carr plans to delay team selection until as late as possible, but changes are possible after last Friday\u2019s 20-14 home loss to York Knights.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cWe\u2019ll see how a few people pull up and there\u2019s a few people knocking on the door, trying to force their way into the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a few players who aren\u2019t in the team at the moment and are either playing reserves or around the 21-man squad.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll have to review last week\u2019s game pretty thoroughly and figure out who trains the best through the week. Whoever trains the best gets picked.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wakefield Trinity set for forward boost ahead of Magic Weekend<\/p>\n

Trinity were without several first-choice players for their last-gasp 29-23 win against Super League\u2019s bottom club Huddersfield Giants last Sunday.<\/p>\n

Coach Daryl Powell said: \u201cWe came out of that all right. There\u2019s a couple of bumps and bruises, but we haven\u2019t got anything major and we\u2019ve got some potential players to come back.<\/p>\n

\u201cCaius [Faatili] didn\u2019t play at the weekend<\/a>, and he will be available. Matty Storton has a chance of being back, but some of the outside-backs probably won\u2019t be.<\/p>\n

\u201cMatty had a minor groin injury a couple of weeks back. It was a little bit more than precautionary, but not too bad.<\/p>\n

\u201cCaius has just had an ankle [issue], and I decided just to rotate him and give him a bit of a breather.\u201d<\/p>\n

Winger Lachlan Walmsley played in the reserves on Monday and could come into contention. Powell is also hopeful Jay Pitts will feature, despite an injury which forced him off the field during last Sunday\u2019s match.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s all right,\u201d Powell said of Pitts.\u00a0 \u201cHe could have come back on. It\u2019s something that has been bothering him \u2013 everybody talks about how old he is, he gets a bit of stick and when you are a little bit older as a player and more experienced you\u2019ve got a few bits and bobs that cause you strife.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has an ankle that, if he gets in certain positions, causes him trouble. It might be two or three times a year it happens to him. I think he will be sweet. I don\u2019t think he\u2019ll train on Wednesday, but I think he\u2019ll be fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Castleford Tigers boss Ryan Carr is considering team changes for Sunday\u2019s Magic Weekend derby, while opponents Wakefield Trinity…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-668048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668048","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=668048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}