Daryl Powell lavishes 12-man Wakefield Trinity with praise after Castleford Tigers demolition

Storton opened the scoring early on but received his marching orders midway through the first half for an alleged elbow to the head of Alex Mellor.

Castleford appeared to have seized the initiative when they went ahead moments later, only for the inspired hosts to score 46 unanswered points.

"I thought it was a phenomenal performance," said Powell after watching his team complete a hat-trick of emphatic derby wins over their neighbours to strengthen their grip on a top-four place.

"We started fantastic, then got pegged back a bit and had Matty sent off – I thought that was harsh, to be honest. To respond like we did is outstanding.

"The end of the first half and start of the second was unbelievable. We looked like we had an extra man ourselves. On both sides of the ball I thought we dominated the game in that period and built a big score.

"What a performance from a 12-man team for a large part of the game. Truey (Jake Trueman) grabbed hold of the game in the second half and was unbelievable, really.

"I thought it was an outstanding performance from him and the team’s performance, how hard we worked for each other, was unbelievable."

Jason Qareqare crossed for his second try late on but it was another sorry derby display by Ryan Carr's Tigers.

Five days on from a thrilling fightback against leaders Leeds Rhinos, this was the latest example of Castleford's chronic inconsistency.

"We can't play like we did for the first 30 and come here with the right attitude and play really, really well – I felt like we were right on our game – and then for the last 50 be the complete opposite," said Carr.

"It's not like we came here and didn’t have the right attitude or mindset or didn’t know what we meant to do. We ticked all those boxes really well.

"To get out to a lead and then concede that many points, I'm going to have to go away and have a look at it."