Castleford Tigers vs Warrington Wolves Predictions: 5/4 Tai to help Wire to another big win

Warrington walloped Leeds at Magic Weekend and will be confident of another West Yorkshire scalp when they head to The Jungle to face Castleford, who will need something special to dent their rivals' title charge, on Friday night (20:00).

Read on for my Castleford Tigers vs Warrington Wolves predictions.

Castleford Tigers vs Warrington Wolves Odds

The visitors are hot favourites to come away from West Yorkshire with both points. The Wire are currently available at 1/8, while the Tigers are trading at 5/1. The draw is 25/1.

Favourite to score the first try is the Wolves' Matty Ashton at 13/2.

Team News

Castleford are without forward Muizz Mustapha who is suspended, while also missing out are George Lawler and Nixon Put.

Paul McShane came through his return from injury unscathed and keeps his place, while young winger Fletcher Rooney returns to the squad after missing out at Elland Road. Full-back Luke Hooley and Jenson Windley are also brought back into the squad.

Warrington are without star man Matt Dufty, who after scoring a hat-trick against Leeds is ruled out with a knee injury. Winger Josh Thewlis could deputise at full-back or there may be an opportunity for academy star Cai Taylor-Wray.

If Thewlis moves over then another youngster Arron Lindop is likely to get the nod on the wing.

Warrington -16 @ 1/1

The Wolves were far too good for Leeds in a bad-tempered match at Magic Weekend, but their success here may depend largely on how they adapt to the absence of livewire Dufty.

Warrington have won both of this year’s meetings with Cas, but their last meeting at The Jungle went the Tigers' way.

A lot has changed since then and while Craig Lingard has started moulding a squad capable of competing, Warrington's upward momentum under Sam Burgess has been quite something.

Even without Dufty there is far too much pace, power and guile in this Wolves squad to slip up here as they battle with Hull KR and Wigan for the League Leaders’ Shield.

I had Warrington at 13/8 on a -12 handicap against Leeds last week and they came through to win 24-6. This week I have them to win this one by three scores.

Rodrick Tai - Anytime Try Scorer @ 5/4

I backed Rodrick Tai to cross anytime at Elland Road and the powerful centre did pretty much everything but score, with one memorable huge hit, a try assist and a sin-binning.

He is a fantastic player to watch and I will keep faith with him this week to provide a return.

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