- Castleford 24-40 Warrington
- Matty Ashton scores hat-trick for visitors
In the end, the scriptwriters must have been having a night off. It simply wasn’t supposed to end like this for Daryl Powell and Castleford Tigers. Take the sight of the club’s legendary long-serving captain, Michael Shenton, leaving the field for the final time as a Castleford player with his shoulder in a sling. Or the raw emotion spilling through Jesse Sene-Lefao, Peter Mata’utia and Oliver Holmes, whose time at the club came to an end in ultimately disappointing fashion here.
And that is before you come to Powell himself. There were enough subplots here to comprise a soap opera, chief among them the fact that Powell was attempting to beat the club he will coach next season to guide his home town club into the play-offs. However, that wasn’t to be and the harsh reality is that they had nobody to blame but themselves after arguably the worst first-half performance of his entire eight-year spell in charge.
