JACK LATUS has risen somewhat in The Press Player of the Year standings.

The centre collects three points for his Player of the Month success in June, as voted for by readers of this newspaper and reported here last week, and he gets an extra point added to his tally after being deemed our third-best player in last week’s painful defeat at Dewsbury Rams.

There’s movement up at the top of the table, where Sam Scott collects two points to lift him level with leader Jonny Presley.

Scott would have been our man of the match but for the missed tackle that allowed Karl Pryce to break away and set up the Rams’ late winner.

That accolade ended up going to prop Nathan Freer, who has been getting back somewhere near his best in recent weeks.

The Press Player of the Year standings: Scott 15pts, Presley 15, Carr 12, Sullivan 12, Aldous 10, Lee 9, Brown 8, Nicholson 8, Ford 8, Latus 7, Briscoe 6, Freer 4, Hadley 3, Lineham 3, Lyons 3, Elliott 3, Mallinder 3, Pickets 3, Smith 2, Golden 2, Bowden 2, Dent 2, Johnston 2, Flockhart 2, Potter 1, Kent 1, Brining 1.

 

• SEEMS Knights threequarter George Elliott is a bit of a cricketer.

Elliott has turned out a bit for his home town of Easingwold in the Hunters York & District Senior Cricket League and the Pilmoor Evening League.

And 24 hours before the Knights’ game at Dewsbury, he hit 60 runs for the club’s second string last Saturday in their division four win over Drax.

 

•CONGRATULATIONS to Adam Sullivan, the clever so-and-so.

The Knights’ long-serving 30-year-old prop last week got a first class honours degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Hull.

He’s obviously brainier than he looks! (Apologies, Sully.) The downside of this where Knights fans are concerned, however, is that this academic success probably only adds to the likelihood of the player hanging up his boots at the end of the season. He is poised to take up a teaching post which, coupled to family commitments, will take up most of his time and focus come the end of the current campaign.

It’s fair to say most people who follow the Knights would desperately like the front-rower to stay at the club, but the man himself remains adamant this will be his final year.