STAR loose-forward Mark Cain has stressed York City Knights will not let up in their bid to be successful.

The Knights shocked Division One outfit Doncaster 34-20 in a Huntington Stadium thriller on Sunday, making it two wins on the trot having secured their first win over professional opposition the week before at Sheffield.

But even with confidence on a high, Cain believes there is still more to come.

"We will not rest on our laurels," he told the Evening Press. "It was not a perfect performance (against Doncaster) but we're getting there and we're starting to do the right things."

The two wins have lowered the odds against York winning promotion from Division Two in a National League campaign that starts next month, and those odds will come down further if the Knights can follow-up this Sunday with a defeat of Hull KR, whom Cain helped to fourth place in the Premiership last season.

But he warned: "There are a lot of Second Division teams turning First Division teams over. We will need to leave it until a couple of weeks into the league season before we see who's up there."

The York born and bred 26-year-old was the first player to sign for the Knights when he returned to Huntington Stadium in the close season, having joined Hull KR from York Wasps last year after that old outfit folded - it was a year ago today that the Wasps directors announced they were closing the club.

And Cain said the new team had come far: "We're developing each week as a team. Players are learning to play with each other and we're starting to have more understanding. It's all good."

Regarding the Doncaster win, he said avenging the two defeats last month was not an issue. "It's all about us, not revenge," he said.

"At the end of the day it does not matter who you're playing. If you make errors you will be under pressure and it was all about cutting out the errors, using field position and turning their big lads round."

As for the "rags to riches to rags" claim in a Doncaster match programme article, which caused controversy before and after Sunday's match, Cain added: "We came to do a job, not worry about what some idiot wants to write in a programme.

"He did not speak for the Doncaster club. It spurred us on a bit but we did not make it into a big thing.

"We wanted to prove to everyone that we're a good side. I don't think Doncaster played that poorly but we put them in a position where they weren't allowed to play."

Updated: 11:38 Wednesday, March 19, 2003