Back-to-back wins at Batley and Barrow have propelled them up to eighth ahead of a break in the Championship calendar for Sunday’s 1895 Cup quarter-final against Widnes.
A notable theme of both matches has been the Knights’ game management, with Jack Martin slamming the floodgates shut at Mount Pleasant, and quick-fire tries from Ben Jones-Bishop and Jesse Dee taking the game away from the Raiders as they looked to pull themselves back onto level terms.
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It has been a pleasant contrast to their late collapses in defeat to both Toulouse and Halifax, but Applegarth insists those lessons are still being learned.
“That’s the journey of the year, isn’t it?” he told The Press. “You’ve got to learn your lessons.
“There’ll be times throughout the year where it gets tested and it may not go our way, so it’s really important that you just keep a nice, objective, level head about things.
“I think the last two weeks we’ve managed what are potentially tricky games really well. But I also didn’t think that we managed that Toulouse game well, or the Halifax game either.
“It’s really important that we keep on learning those lessons, we don’t rest on our laurels, and that we keep putting those lessons into practice.
“They were two well managed games, but I think there’s still a lot more in us that we can get better at.”
