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Last updated: 26th May 2008

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Under-fire Warrington coach Paul Cullen failed to attend the post-match press conference in the wake of his side's 36-28 loss to Castleford at the Halliwell Jones Stadium.

The Wolves threw away a 28-14 lead in the final 10 minutes - an about-turn that left home fans calling for Cullen's head.

It was only Castleford's third win of the season and the bottom club's first away from home since returning to Super League.

With his expensively-assembled side currently placed only seventh in the table, their inconsistency is placing Cullen under increasing pressure.

Nevertheless, assistant coach Jimmy Lowes insisted that nothing should be read into Cullen's refusal to speak to the media.

Lowes said: "Paul is pretty peeved to be honest and talking to the lads about the performance. There is nothing sinister but he wants 10 or 15 minutes with the players.

"When teams get a roll on it's difficult to stop them and if I knew the answers I would be a rich man.

"It was a big decision to disallow Simon Grix's try and Cas got a lift from that. They had a good go and let loose.

"As professionals we have to move on but I can understand the fans' frustrations. Things are not quite happening for us and we have to get our confidence back."

The Tigers, who remain three points adrift at the bottom, had seemed out of contention until their dramatic late rally.

They claimed four late tries through Michael Wainwright, Stuart Donlan and a brace from Luke Dorn as they turned the game on its head in the final few minutes.

There was still more misery for Warrington, with Kevin Penny leaving the field on a stretcher in the final minute of the match.

Fight

Tigers coach Terry Matterson said: "Confidence has been low but we showed some real fight.

"I would have been happy with an ugly win but this was a really good win. The hungrier side won.

"I thought we could win even when we were down 28-14. I didn't think we deserved to be facing that scoreline but everything was going their way at the time.

"We knew this was going to be a tough year but the boys have worked hard and we dug in defensively which won us the game despite conceding 28 points.

"Ryan McGoldrick was outstanding with Michael Shenton and Joe Westerman benefiting outside him.

"It was the first time Richard Owen had played centre and he was also excellent and did a really good job on Martin Gleeson. We scored some really good tries too."