MICK Cook reckons Swinton's shock win at Super League hopefuls Leigh proves that nobody left in the Northern Rail Cup should be underestimated.

The second round draw takes place tonight and Cook said that while his York City Knights side would be a match for anybody on their day, there would be no easy games.

"People shouldn't underestimate teams that are out there," he said.

"We had (Division Two sides) Sheffield and Featherstone in our group and both are pretty tough. Everybody has recruited well. Swinton (another Division Two side) had a great win and that just goes to show on the day everybody is capable of taking anybody to the cleaners."

The Knights travel to that Swinton side on Sunday in the Challenge Cup fourth round, which Cook warned would be a "big test for us".

The next round of the Northern Rail Cup, meanwhile, is on April 23. The winners of that go through to the quarter-finals on May 7. The final is at Blackpool's Bloomfield Road on Sunday, July 16.

Swinton's win helped them reach tonight's draw as one of three best third-placed finishers, while Sheffield and Barrow also scraped in. The teams who qualified as group winners or runners-up are Celtic Crusaders, London Skolars, Whitehaven, Workington, Doncaster, Dewsbury, Leigh, Widnes, Rochdale, Halifax, Hull KR, York and the winners of the amateur group, Bramley.

The Knights have been drawn away from home in ten of the last 11 cup ties, in both the Challenge Cup and Northern Rail Cup, and Cook wanted that run to change.

"Hopefully we'll get a home draw, but we will wait and see," he said.

"A nice easy draw would be nice, like Beeston Bazookas Under-13s if they're still in it, but at this stage, they're all going to be pretty tough."

Updated: 10:05 Tuesday, March 28, 2006