For a player of his calibre it's worth it. Will take money out of the cap but look at how other clubs are struggling to get quality halves. Heard a couple of NRL clubs interested too, so not holding my breath.

New deals to be offered to Kelly and Mini in next couple of weeks according to League Express. We're not in for Widdop.

I'd offer Kelly a 3yr deal and Mini a 2yr deal..

I think it would be a silly move to offer Kelly a 3 year deal. That's where he'll go off the rails, gotta keep him on his toes.

All to similar to his time with rovers, half way in to the season, offer him a silly contract on 4 grand a week and it went tits up.

Maybe he's happy and expressed an interest in staying?
It may be risky, but one worth taking. He's an NRL quality half back. They're scarce in the NRL, never mind Super League.

Offer him an extension to next season and renegotiate next year for a 2 year stay if he performs well.

It's the "second season syndrome" that we're worried about.

With the talk of contract upgrades, does anyone think that if Mini and Ellis do go around again it will be on contract "downgrades". Not in anyway meant to be a slight, but as players get older contracts tend to reduce over time. Just wondering if it happens that it may help to balance any upgrades.

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Problem being there will be plenty of other clubs will to offer him a straight 3yr deal based on his form with us to date.

Unless the we have a 2nd year option in our favour he can't walk away from I feel we have no option but to give him the going rate for a player of his quality. We've got him on the cheap this year so we are lucky.

If he'd ripped it up last year & not fell out with Hull KR we'd have paid more for his services this year anyhow.

Just get get him signed up.......................can't think of another player we could get on a SL level salary that would have such an impact on the team. if we aspire to stay at the top & to actually win a GF he's a player we must keep.

No rumour but seeing Westerman at our reserves and chatting to Radders, made me think, would we have him back as a replacement for Mini or Ellis (Long term) if used right he is a very good player IMO.

Maybe more to do with Brandon Westerman playing for our Reserves after being released by Castleford

I'm not saying there anything in it, more asking peoples opinions if he would be a good re-signing.

can`t see us signing Westerman, he will of been there to watch is brother who plays for our U23`s

NO

Westerman would be great if he didn't try to be a one man army two plays every set. Can any coach get him there though?

To be perfectly honest NO. As good as Westerman can be he is just not consistent enough, plus as a club we have moved on.