ANYWAY, back to the modern day and the Knights' super start to the season.

The four-wins-out-of-four run has been a team effort, but it's now time for individual praise - the first Player of the Month accolade for 2014.

As usual, the award will be decided by The Press readers, with the player who tops the poll getting both an award and three bonus points towards his The Press Player of the Year tally.

Vote for your player of the month or email peter.martini@thepress.co.uk, leaving your full name and daytime contact number. Votes must be cast by noon on Wednesday.

The early front-runners in the Player of the Year leaderboard are Lee Paterson, whose good form was capped by selection in the Kingstone Press Championship One Team of the Week, and Jonny Presley, who was named Kingstone Press Championship One Player of the Week.

Three points are awarded to the Knights' man of the match in each game, two to whoever we deem the second best performer on the day, and one to the third.

Loose-forward Paterson, back at his home-town club this year, was our star man in the win at Hunslet (3pts), having been runner-up on the opening day against Gloucestershire All Golds (2pts).

Scrum-half Presley was deemed our second best player in both the Challenge Cup win over Whitehaven (2pts) and last week's demolition of South Wales Scorpions(2pts) in which he scored four tries.

In full, the player-of-the-year points against South Wales went to our man of the match, James Haynes (3pts), Presley (2pts) and second-row Ed Smith (1pt).

Against Whitehaven in the cup, they went to Austin Bell (3pts), Presley (2pts) and Jack Aldous (1pt).

Against Hunslet the winners were Paterson (3pts), Jack Lee (2pts) and Greg Minikin (1pt).

And against the All Golds they were Pat Smith (3pts), Paterson (2pts), Iain Morrison (1pt).

The Press Player of the Year leaderboard: Paterson 5pts, Presley 4, P Smith 3, Bell 3, Haynes 3, Lee 2, Minikin 1, Morrison 1, Aldous 1, E Smith 1.