Castleford Tigers coach Ryan Carr told BBC Radio Leeds:
“It was unreal. That’s a big win for us. If anyone knew what we’ve been through – there’s a lot that’s gone down this week. A lot of adversity and we had to fight to beat the best side in the comp.
“Louis Senior had concussion symptoms on Thursday after we’d already trained so we had to move [Alex] Mellor to centre. We had to ring Jack Brown up to say you’re playing now.
“Hoody’s [Liam Hood] ankle is completely busted and he said, ‘I’m playing’. I love that about my players. A lot of sacrifice has gone into it.
“That was a bad start. We didn’t touch the ball for the first 10 minutes but the belief of the group is what pleases me most.”
Leeds Rhinos coach Brad Arthur told BBC Radio Leeds:
“With the ball we were physically very good but we didn’t want to do it without the ball. Our attitude to defence just wasn’t good enough. Some poor choices around effort and in defence and not being worried about being connected to your mate.”
On Daniel Levi’s injury: “He’s gone to hospital and he’ll have scans on his neck. Hopefully it’s all just precautionary. There’s a bit of numbness which is probably normal when you get a whack like that.
“It wasn’t nice. You can see a few of the boys, they couldn’t look at him, they had to walk away. His partner was so strong while she was in the tunnel. It had an impact [on the result] but we can make better choices around that.”
Castleford: Laulu-Togaga’e; Ravalawa, Valemei, Mellor, Qareqare; Asi, Weaver; Dupree, Hood, Lawler, Golding, Brown, Stimson.
Interchanges: Atoni, Ashworth, Hall, Robb.
Leeds: Miller; Edgell, Newman, Bird, Sivo; Croft, Connor; Oledzki, Levi, Jenkins, Hankinson, McDonnell, C. Smith.
Interchanges: Waktins, Nicholson-Watton, Cassell, Holroyd.
Referee: Liam Rush.
