Super League: Castleford Tigers 7-12 Hull KR - Rovers move within two points of leaders Warrington

Hull KR are 3rd successful Super League, 2 points down leaders Warrington, aft a tally of 5 successive victories

Hull KR bushed Castleford for their 5th successive Super League triumph to determination 2 points down leaders Warrington.

Jacob Miller's try, converted by Paul McShane, gave Tigers a half-time lead.

Corey Hall scored his archetypal Rovers effort to level and, aft Miller replied with a drop-goal, Matt Parcell enactment Hull KR up for the archetypal clip successful the crippled - and into a pb they did not squander.

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After a spell successful interim complaint of Castleford, Last signed a two-and-a-half-year contract to go Lee Radford's semipermanent successor connected Tuesday.

His side's agleam commencement was rewarded erstwhile Miller reacted quickest to his ain precocious footwear being spilled into unfastened abstraction and the erstwhile Wakefield half-back crossed unopposed nether the posts.

Hull KR were frustrated successful their attempts to reply earlier half-time, with the video referee deeming Ryan Hall had not grounded a grubber footwear cleanly implicit the enactment and Cas holding steadfast portion Liam Watts was successful the misdeed bin.

But Willie Peters' broadside were backmost level aft the interval erstwhile they worked the shot from close to near and Hall, signed from Wakefield successful March, threw a dummy retired wide earlier touching down.

Having forged narrowly up erstwhile much acknowledgment to the close footwear of Miller, Castleford made a costly mistake that led to the match-winning score.

The hosts allowed the resulting kick-off to bounce into touch, giving Rovers important tract position, and hooker Parcell took afloat vantage to dive implicit from dummy-half.

Castleford caput manager Andy Last told BBC Radio Leeds:

"A communicative of 2 halves from a show constituent of presumption for me. I'm truly pleased with what we did successful the archetypal half, but successful the 2nd fractional we conscionable couldn't support the mode that we'd played successful the archetypal half.

"It was a nip-and-tuck game. The squad made the determination to instrumentality the one-pointer astir the 60-minute mark, I didn't deliberation determination would beryllium overmuch betwixt the 2 teams and some defences were astir apt connected top.

"And past we travel up with the mistake disconnected the kick-off. Two elder players don't woody with it, it goes into interaction and the enactment we've done to get ourselves successful beforehand by a constituent for 20 minutes is undone successful the abstraction of 30 seconds."

Hull KR caput manager Willie Peters told BBC Radio Humberside:

"In the archetypal fractional I thought Cas bushed america successful beauteous overmuch each area. It was lone astir apt owed to a fewer errors they had - astatine 6-0 [behind] we went successful blessed with that due to the fact that I thought they were decidedly the amended squad successful the archetypal half.

"What I was astir pleased astir was however we adjusted and went backmost to being the squad that we are.

"To travel present and triumph is ever difficult, nary substance what. They're a tough, gritty squad and we showed that contiguous too."

Castleford: Eden; Faraimo, Mellor, Turner, Fonua; Broadbent, Miller; Lawler, McShane, Griffin, Milner, Edwards, Westerman.

Interchanges: Matagi, Hall, Watts, Tate.

Sin bin: Watts (26)

Hull KR: Coote; Kenny-Dowall, Opacic, C Hall, R Hall; Lewis, Abdull; Kennedy, Parcell, King, Batchelor, Linnett, Minchella.

Interchanges: Litten, Storton, Hadley, Luckley.

Referee: Marcus Griffiths

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