YORK City Knights coach Richard Agar is in two minds about who he wants to get in the next round of the Powergen Challenge Cup.

The Knights put themselves into the hat with a 28-8 defeat of French champions Villeneuve at Huntington Stadium yesterday, and Agar said there was "two ways to look at it" ahead of tonight's fourth round draw.

Super League clubs enter the competition at this stage and, after this weekend's shock results, they will be joined in the hat by three amateur clubs and three French clubs along with the remaining National League clubs.

Agar told the Evening Press: "You could either hope for a team you feel you can beat and hope to progress further, or you want a big day out at a big club and let the boys go out and enjoy themselves, which would also be beneficial to the club financially.

"We are not going to win the Challenge Cup so it's all about having a big day out somewhere along the line."

Agar - who will be sweating on the fitness of Scott Rhodes and Rob Kama after the duo suffered rib injuries yesterday, while prop Craig Forsyth faces a disciplinary hearing tomorrow - was happy with the Knights' second half performance yesterday as they booked their place in the next round, although he was critical of the first half show.

"In our first 40 we were disjointed in attack and defensively we did things without enough unity and too many were not finishing tackles - basically we were not playing how we trained to play," he said.

"To our credit we still came in 14-6 ahead, but with the wind I did not know if it would be enough. However, to keep them scoreless, apart from one penalty, in the second half and to totally dominate territorially like we did was a real credit to our defence.

"We closed (Villeneuve scrum-half) Brad Davis' kicking game down superbly and I thought Alex Godfrey (winger) and Nathan Graham (full-back) worked the back and did not show them any chance for a 40-20."

He added: "What we need to do now is get everything between the ears sorted out, make the players realise that by sticking to the game-plan and doing the small things right it will get results. In the first half we did not do that, in the second we did.

"If we could have taken our chances a bit better we could have scored more. We dominated the second half which was pleasing, more so considering the wind and the fact we lost the game in the second half last week (against Batley)."

Updated: 10:46 Monday, February 09, 2004