Warrington coach Sam Burgess told Sport:
“It was very clean. Firstly, I liked our physicality early in the game. We were physical when we needed to be and kept hold of the ball – I don’t think we made an error until late in the game so it made it very hard for Castleford.
“The ball bounced our way, we had a few calls so it just fell in our lap. You have those days so we’ll take them but it was a very polished performance and I’m happy with it.
“At half-time we challenged them as we thought they might be complacent and take our foot off the gas but we were very consistent with who we want to be. Today was a good step forward for us as a group.
“Kelepi was nice for us and George [Williams] prefers playing on the left and Ewan [Irwin] slots on the right so the balance of the team was nice, and the control.”
Castleford coach Ryan Carr told Sport:
“It was horrible, not good enough. They played really well, we played really poorly, and that sums it up.
“There are no excuses for it. It hurts you, losing middles to head knocks, but at the end of the day we didn’t make the decision to go out, put our bodies on the line and go after it.
“We’re not going to skim over it. We’re going to have a good look at ourselves. I feel like we have been competing in the last few games but it’s a disappointing day for us.
“It’s embarrassing and not good enough. I feel sorry for our members and our fans and we have to make sure that we fix it.
“The tries they scored were things we had talked about all week, that we’d worked hard on, specific drills to combat what they’re good at, because they’re a good footy team.
“But when they’re making a line-break straight through your middle third that’s nothing to do with personnel, that’s just whoever is in that jersey needs to make that tackle.”
