The thing with a three year contract is in effect it is only an 18 month to two year contract if you wish to keep a player. Lots of players are poached, released or looking elsewhere long before the term of their contract expires.
Without doubt a big contract is a risk for a club like ours, however I'd say if we can afford it and he (DK) would accept it; id give him a five year deal.
If he is to be our captain going forward and i see no reason why not it would be a shot accross the bows to other SL and NRL clubs that we want to retain our top players, and not only is Danny a top player here, he would be a top player anywhere.

Quite right , Raleigh is looking like the 2012 version again.
I think as a whole we have about the most dominant go forward pack in SL and that can only be improved with the likes of the big new fella (i cant even begin to get his name right so i wont bother trying; TT will have to do for now) when he returns from injury.

I know what you mean, I did mean a real 3 year deal after this one expires.

Agree on this, Danny wants to and enjoys playing for Wakefield. Since he has been given captaincy he has grown into a quality player that probably all the teams in Super League would have him in.

I know, i was just saying that if you want to keep a player say three years, you need a longer contract in reality.

Just think what an England call up would do for him!

Some mentioned to me that Leeds offered 50k and brad singleton for kirmond. I pmsl and said even Leeds wouldn't be that cheeky.

Kirmo is fast becoming some sort of Wakefield living legend, the 80 metre chase after the FC guy was immense !

Long contracts these days are purely about adding value to that player should another club come knocking - that's fine by me and I guess that every player has a value at which the BoD are duty bound to consider a sale; again, that's fine by me.

I'm with vasty on this one - anything longer than 3 years is a big risk for any club, let alone one that teeters around the edges of a cashflow crisis on a regular basis; personally, I wouldn't go with anything longer than 3 years for any player, regardless of quality. What I would do however, is get the players I wanted to retain signed up nice and early, well before their current deal expires and well before the imminent expiry of their current deal makes them open to offers.

As for Captain Kirmo - I'd sit down with him and renegotiate a new 3 year deal, starting now; it would be great if he lead us into the new stadium.

The only player from Leeds I'd want would be Watkins who is class

So Watkins is the only player you'd want from the reigning champions. Wow!!!!

Yes let's be realistic
Watkins
Bjb
Hall
Hardaker
Sutcliffe

Rest they can keep

He is no doubt, the other side of the coin is that all players are capable of doing what he did, but didn't bother.

Kirmond is our man of steel.

Certainly our player of the year for me so far as for the chase of the Hull player why were the faster players in the side not in that chase.

Good point. I've always noticed that Fox is nowhere near as fast in defence as he is in attack. He just doesn't seem to be motivated to chase an opposing player. Also bizarrely he caught that high ball against Briscoe very well when there was a chance to score the try.

Sorry for singling him out here (when all the other players in the team could have chased back with Kirmo) it is just something which I've noticed and have been very disappointed with. Fox is relatively fast and I'd like to see it used in both sides of his game.