Cinderford captain Knight confident of return

CINDERFORD captain Paul Knight is confident of being fit for their National One clash with Tynedale at Dockham Road tomorrow.

Scrum-half Knight has been absent for the last three weeks because of a knee injury and missed the Foresters’ 25-21 defeat to Stourbridge and 3-0 loss at Newbury Blues.

But the former Birmingham and Solihull captain is hoping to be in contention for this week against a side nine points ahead of them in ninth.

“It is not too bad, I will have a fitness test on it but I had said three weeks originally,” Knight said.

“On Tuesday I did some running in straight lines but it is a lot different when you are twisting and turning in the rain but I am pretty confident of being fit.”

After a poor start to the season, during which they lost their first five games, Cinderford appeared to be back on track after chalking up three straight wins.

But they have now lost three matches in a row and sit 14th out of 16 teams.

Nearly all of the rugby leagues up and down the country took a break from playing last weekend and Knight says it should have done the Cinderford players some good.

“It is maybe a good thing because all the boys can recover if they have any little knocks,” he added.

“They can sit back and have a think about why we are in this situation and what we need to do and have a look at the table and if we can just get back to training and get back to basics.

“We know we should be winning these games but we just have to actually go out and win them.”

With Knight likely to return this week the same can not be said for head coach Phil Greenaway who had been playing well at fly-half.

Greenaway suffered two broken ribs and a punctured lung against Newbury and Knight will be glad to see him back, albeit in the dugout.

“Phil is not doing too bad now, I went up to see him last week and he is out of hospital,” Knight said.

“He should be back on the sidelines but I do not think he will play again for the rest of this season because he was in a pretty bad way.”