By JON NEWCOMBE

Doncaster Knights took an encouraging first step towards new MD Emma White’s goal of making them the talk of the town with a record opening day home Championship crowd of 2,056 watching the 20-18 win over Hartpury in round one.
It beat the previous best of 1,839 when local rivals Rotherham were the first visitors to Castle Park at the start of the 2016/17 season, despite Storm Babet wreaking havoc with people’s plans, and was well over double the number who watched last year’s corresponding game.
However, they are still small numbers and White, who has been at the Knights ...