WE'VE got our champion team - now let's find another champion fan.

League sponsor LHF Healthplan is looking for the Knights' most fanatical supporter from the last 12 months as it launches the 2005 'Most Dedicated Fan' search - and they should have a fair few to choose from.

Last season, Gary Hall was chosen as the Knights' most dedicated fan, and LHF is again seeking stories of unquestionable devotion, unstoppable dedication or good old-fashioned fanatical madness from the National League's thousands of fans.

The winner will receive a shirt signed by the first team and a pair of tickets to the National League Grand Finals day at the Halton Stadium, Widnes, on October 9, while the overall 'Most Dedicated Fan' will win the chance to make a presentation on Grand Final day.

Jane Fenwick, LHF director of marketing, said: "The LHF Healthplan National League has some of the most loyal and dedicated fans of any sport in the country.

"Last year we had hundreds of tales of fanatical support and this season we're looking to turn the tables on the National League's unsung heroes again and give them a bit of well-earned recognition and support."

If you are, or someone you know is, a candidate for the Knights' Most Dedicated Fan of 2005, jot down your reasons why and your full contact details and email them to christina@ptarmiganpr.co. or post them to LHF Healthplan 'Most Dedicated Fan' 2005, Airedale House, 423 Kirkstall Road, Leeds, LS4 2EZ. The deadline for entries is September 23.

FORMER Knights hero Danny Brough has received praise aplenty in this column in recent years, and it seems rugby fans all over the country will now know what York supporters have been saying for some time - the lad has a left boot made of gold.

He was hardly mentioned in the build-up to the game as a potential match-winner, but there would have been a few York fans not ruling out a major say in proceedings for the 22-year-old.

And lo and behold, an impeccable all-round performance not least with a brilliant kicking game, was capped not only by some crucial towering touchline two-pointers and a vital drop-goal that ultimately proved the difference, but also by the match-winning conversion with seconds on the clock.

Brough later admitted feeling the nerves as thoughts of Don Fox's "poor lad" failed conversion flooded into his head, but it would seem nerves do not make their way down his left leg - and there could not have been a grander stage for him to prove his bottle than the biggest final of all in front of a 75,000 sell-out.

Anyone who saw him close to tears after York's Play-off Final defeat last season would have been especially delighted for him - and they will now be able to show their gladness when Brough and Richard Agar come to the Knights' match tomorrow. (See story on Page 24).

FORMER York Wasps coach Lee Crooks, the ex-Hull, Leeds, Castleford and GB forward, has been named head coach of the England Academy Under-17s squad, who will take on the Australian Institute of Sport in November.

THE Knights Supporters Club are holding a race night on September 24 in the Huntington Stadium bar starting at 7.30pm.

This is an all-ticket event. Tickets can be bought from 'Big Ian' - he of drum fame - in the bar before tomorrow's game or in the stand at half-time.

Tickets are priced at £5 for Supporters Club members, £7 for non-members and £2 for under-16s, and include a pie and peas supper. They will be sold on first come, first served basis with a limit of 100.

Updated: 09:25 Saturday, September 03, 2005