York City Knights boss Woods praises ‘right decision’

The club had to wait three weeks to learn which division they would be in next year while the RFL considered Crusaders’ application to join the Championship after withdrawing from Super League.

Woods said that it had made his team-building plans for next season more difficult.

“It’s been frustrating,” he said. “You talk to players and you want to sign these quality players and a lot of them are saying ‘we don’t know what league you’re playing in’, so they don’t want to commit.

“They then sign with other Championship clubs that know they’re there.

“It’s made it really frustrating but at the same time it was out of our hands so we just had to get on doing what we were doing.”

Meanwhile, the Knights have announced prop Adam Sullivan, 28, has rejoined the club on a two-year deal after spending the last two seasons with Hunslet.

Full-back James Haynes, 22, and centre James Ford, 28, have both signed new deals to remain at the club for a further year.