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Coach Applegarth wants the Knights to thrive in top flight
Yorkshire Evening Post
|January 02, 2026
York Knights have the ingredients to thrive in Betfred Super League, insists head coach Mark Applegarth at the start of a landmark year
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York will become Super League's 25th club when they kick off the new season against defending champions Hull KR on February 12 - a landmark moment for the Knights, the region and the competition itself.
And yet for all the excitement, the harsh realities of topflight rugby await a club still new to the rigours of a full-time setup.
This story is from the January 02, 2026 edition of Yorkshire Evening Post.
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