Castleford Tigers 0 Hull KR 44: Robins run riot to pile on the agony for ailing derby hosts
HULL KR inflicted more woe on Castleford with an eight-try thrashing of the crisis club in the Betfred Super League.
Castleford were without head coach Ryan Carr due to “personal reasons” for the clash at the OneBore Stadium, but entered the fixture after five defeats in six matches.
Any hope of an upturn in fortunes quickly went out the window with play-off chasing Rovers able to run in six second-half scores with Tom Davies and Tyrone May going over twice for a brace each in a 44-0 victory.
It took 12 minutes for the deadlock to be broken when Jez Litten latched on to his own grubber kick to jot down.
Davies added a second before the break, but Castleford were firmly in the contest at half-time with the score at 10-0.
However, May’s 45th-minute effort opened the floodgates and sparked a spell of four tries in 11 minutes.
Joe Burgess grabbed a bonus point for Rovers before Peta Hiku went over, which was backed up by a second for May.
Davies completed his brace with 15 minutes left and Rhyse Martin rounded off the scoring in the 73rd minute to cap a fine 14-point individual display for the Papua New Guinea forward.
Elsewhere, Jon Bennison scored a hat-trick for York Knights but they were unable to build on last week’s statement win over St Helens when they went down 22-14 at play-off chasing Leigh Leopards.
Tries from Josh Charnley, Joe Ofahengaue, Andrew Badrock and David Armstrong lifted the sixth-placed Leopards four points clear of Saints in seventh.