Hull FC<\/a> player still. Would I like Denive? 100%, I would. I love the kid to bits.<\/p>\n“I’ve got a lot of history with Denive. I’ve known him since he was 16 years old. And he knows me. I think I can really help develop his game and I think he trusts me to develop his game.<\/p>\n
“But again, I’m very respectful of Hull FC and until they say that there is any movement there, then I’d rather not comment on it just out of respect for FC.”<\/p>\n
Balmforth has been ever-present for York this year, playing all 20 of their games so far, including twice against his parent club. Making a fist of his loan spell in North Yorkshire, the Leeds-born dummy-half has four tries to his name and has impressed Applegarth throughout the campaign.<\/p>\n
“Denvie has some great traits in his game and he’s got some easy work-ons to fix up to take him to the next level,” the York coach said. “I absolutely love working with him.<\/p>\n
“I first watched him as a 14-year-old at Stanningley. He’s a player I’ve always kept tracks on and I’m really pleased to see him start to transfer his game that he had as a junior into the top flight.”<\/p>\n
As for Thursday’s victory, York’s sixth of the Super League season, Applegarth, whose side trailed 16-8 at the break before scoring 12 unanswered second-half points, added: “I thought we showed a lot of character at the end.<\/p>\n
“I was a little bit filthy at half-time, if I\u2019m honest with you. I felt we invited Hull back into that game after the water break in the first half.<\/p>\n
“I just thought momentum swung a bit with Hull. I thought we\u2019d started dipping in terms of our intent and our effort areas, but I can\u2019t fault them for that second half. That character and spirit is what we want to be about. I’m a really proud coach.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Balmforth played a key part in York’s win over Hull FC. Denive Balmforth is on a season long…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[48812,20805,5903,20370,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-684167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-denive-balmforth","tag-hull-fc","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-league","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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