YORK City Knights have signed two players from Hull KR as they step up preparations for the new season.

The team’s new-look kit – which, as previously revealed, reverts from the Knights’ blue to the traditional York RL colours of amber and black – has also been given its first public outing.

Hooker Will Jubb, who scored on his Rovers first-team debut during the Middle Eight Qualifiers last year, and prop Kieran Moran, who was in Scotland’s Four Nations squad at the end of the season, have both joined the club on loan, initially for a month but with a view to staying longer.

The arrivals were announced hot on the heels of the official 2017 season launch for Super League, the Championship and League One, which took place at Leigh Sports Village yesterday. Young scrum-half Harry Tyson-Wilson represented the Knights, donning the new-look home strip, which is predominantly amber with a big black traditional rugby league 'V'.

Jubb, 20, who previously captained the City of Hull Academy side, gives head coach James Ford another option at dummy-half, alongside Harry Carter and Pat Smith.

Ford said: “He gives really good service from dummy-half and defensively he’s good as well.

“He comes highly recommended and is a great kid as well and a really good prospect.

“He’s a bit different to the other hookers we have and it will be a case of the two who train and play the best will be selected.”

Teenager Moran effectively replaces Micky Learmonth in the squad, the latter having left the club last month to take up pro boxing.

Moran, another product of the merged Humberside academy, played five times for Hull KR last year and three on dual-registration with York’s League One rivals, Newcastle Thunder, impressing enough to win his Bravehearts call-up in the autumn.

Ford said: “He’s a prop who gives you penetration in his carries but also has some good football in his game.

“He’s coming from a full-time environment and they think highly of him, and I’m really pleased to be able to bring him here.”

The duo’s loans have now started, with the initial month taking in the final friendly of pre-season at home to Hull a week on Monday and the League One Cup first round tie against North Wales Crusaders on February 19.

They are unlikely to be allowed to play for York in the Challenge Cup the following week, with their parent club not wanting either of them to be cup-tied.

On whether they will stay for the start of the League One campaign in early March, Ford said: “We will have a look at them and they’ll have a look at us and we’ll see if they’re a good fit and then cross that bridge when we come to it.

“We’ve not got a massive squad in terms of depth and we knew we needed to bring in players, and hooker and prop were two positions we wanted to strengthen.”