YORK KNIGHTS’ first win over St Helens since 1946 shows the progress being made by the club, coach Mark Applegarth said. His side edged a thriller 34-32, the seventh win of their first Super League season. York were in League One as recently as 2018 while Saints are record ten-time champions in the summer era. Knights boss Applegarth said: “If you’d have said to most York fans two years ago, that we’d be competing in Super League and getting a win over St Helens, they’d have laughed you out of the room. “It just shows you the strides that we’re making forward.