Castleford Tigers coach Danny Ward

Danny Ward reflects on Castleford Tigers' 28-12 win at Wakefield Trinity in his first game as coach.

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00:00 Yeah, fantastic, yeah. It was not a special day for me like that.

00:05 Cast wakey, you could see how special it was for the fans.

00:09 So, boys have worked hard this week and to stop that week off with a win was really important for us.

00:14 You know it's not the be all and end all in terms of the season, but just to get that win after a good week is...

00:21 I hope we can springboard and get even better and get back into a winning streak next week.

00:27 Yeah, just to get off with a win is amazing.

00:30 Obviously you've only just come in, but from what you've seen homeward wise on Cass previously,

00:34 what do you think was different about the side tonight?

00:36 It's hard to comment on previous performances, you know.

00:39 I'm not here to say how they've been doing all year or what's been going on.

00:43 I'm just really pleased that we've worked on some things in training this week.

00:47 We've gone out and executed, I think the energy and intensity all week have been fantastic.

00:52 So, I'm just only looking forward really in terms of this performance.

00:56 There's still some areas we need to fix up, defensively especially.

01:02 So, we can't just all smile really, because we've been coaching that time.

01:06 We want to get back and get into work as soon as possible and work on them fix-ups.

01:11 It was a tense old night, wasn't it? What were your nerves like during it?

01:14 Awfully, yeah. I'm not going to make any sense whatsoever.

01:17 It's straight back into it, get back into coaching, that'll be fun.

01:21 Back from the stress, like, thumping.

01:24 But it was good, I thought. The game swung a couple of ways.

01:28 We started well, we started fast and waited for a period of 20 minutes.

01:32 We were just under the pump, I don't think it took us over nine minutes.

01:35 Then we came through that, showed some real adversity on the goal line.

01:39 To not concede too many and then to put a couple of punches before half-time and go in eight points up.

01:47 I think it was amazing to see how we came through that adversity.

01:51 It kind of had that swing second half, similar.

01:54 We were in it and Wicky was on top. We had to grind some stuff out there to them.