{"id":209482,"date":"2025-06-24T04:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T04:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/209482\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T04:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T04:44:11","slug":"mark-applegarth-grateful-for-new-assistant-at-york-knights-total-rugby-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/209482\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Applegarth grateful for new assistant at York Knights \u2013 Total Rugby League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalrl.com\/mark-applegarth-grateful-for-new-assistant-at-york-knights\/\" title=\"Permanent Link to Mark Applegarth grateful for new assistant at York Knights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img width=\"675\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ApplegarthMark-LBAT-A4-CH-675x360.jpg\" class=\"bestwp-post-thumbnail-single wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>YORK KNIGHTS have former player and coach Chris Thorman back on board as an assistant to Mark Applegarth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old ex-Super League halfback originally switched from Hull FC in 2010 and made 61 appearances across three seasons, the last of those as player-coach, before joining the staff at former club Huddersfield.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, Thorman played a key role as York were promoted from League One under Australian coach Dave Woods. They beat Oldham in the Grand Final at Warrington.<\/p>\n<p>As well as working at Huddersfield, including service in caretaker control, the ex-England international coached Workington before taking the helm at home-city club Newcastle Thunder ahead of the 2023 season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalrl.com\/former-great-britain-star-takes-charge-of-newcastle-thunder-after-chris-thorman-exit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He has now left Newcastle<\/a> for a full-time role as assistant coach at York as part of a new development partnership between the two clubs and NRL powerhouse Penrith Panthers, with whom the Knights have had links since last year.<\/p>\n<p>Applegarth lost one of his assistants, Ged Corcoran, to Featherstone in February, and has been working with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalrl.com\/paul-mcshane-taking-on-bigger-coaching-role-at-york-knights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the support of Will Leatt and senior player Paul McShane<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis knowledge and leadership will be a valuable addition to the staff,\u201d said the club.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalrl.com\/ben-jones-bishop-leads-york-knights-comeback-win-at-widnes-vikings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">York secured a sixth straight league win and eighth in all competitions at Widnes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That run includes their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalrl.com\/liam-harris-field-goal-sees-york-knights-edge-featherstone-rovers-in-1895-cup-final\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5-4 golden-point win over Featherstone<\/a> at Wembley in the final of the 1895 Cup. They host Rovers on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YORK KNIGHTS have former player and coach Chris Thorman back on board as an assistant to Mark Applegarth.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-209482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114736520531993843","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}