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"Daryl Powell has urged Castleford&#x2019;s fans to lower their expectations after his team produced a nervy display in their 13-12 victory over Widnes. Last season&#x2019;s runners-up got their Betfred Super League season up and running after suffering a heavy defeat at St Helens in round one but they were well short of their best against the spirited Vikings. After winning the League Leaders&#x2019; Shield at a canter and racking up almost 1,000 points in 2017, Powell believes the two-week break for the World Club Challenge will give his team the chance to relax. <p>We needed to win and in some ways that&#x2019;s why we looked nervous at times.</p><p>I&#x2019;m really pleased with the two points and I&#x2019;m not a big fan of the World Club Challenge stopping the season by a week but at the moment it&#x2019;ll give us a bit of breathing space.</p><p>I&#x2019;m looking forward to this next two weeks. We need to chill out and relax a bit. It&#x2019;ll come for us.</p><p>We trained with a great attitude all week. Obviously it&#x2019;s been a tough week for us because we&#x2019;re not used to the standard that we put out there last week.</p><p>The whole place is a bit nervous about us and that doesn&#x2019;t help either. I&#x2019;m not blaming anyone for that.</p><p>But I think everybody expects us to be on this journey of winning every week and this is a different journey, a different season.</p><p>We&#x2019;re going to have to find something else and today we did. We&#x2019;re not all singing, all dancing - the conditions are tough. We&#x2019;re still trying to find our fluency.</p><p>We&#x2019;ve just got to chill out with that. It&#x2019;s not going to be like it was last year.</p><p>We just need to relax a little bit and I&#x2019;d like to think our speccies (fans) will relax a little bit and give us a little bit of time in the knowledge that we&#x2019;re working our backsides off to be as good as we can be.</p>"
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