Big news coming out today

Hardly setting the world alight and came injured, and has been injured since. I find the length of contact astounding.

Good signing.

Been really good in my opinion but it is a long contract

He has been very good for most of the season, think a lot of fans just look at the tries scored column for backs and then just write them off if they’re not scoring loads of tries

Seems odd giving him 4 years when Austin, who has probably been our best player this season so far, reportedly only been offered 1 year.

I think he has been great ,always makes yardage, beats first tackle, happy with length of contract 4 years of prime centre/winger.

Has the potential to be a very good player for us, but at 29 it’s a bit old for potential. Always makes metres and looks dangerous, we need to get the ball to him in space or 1 on 1, he’s a potent weapon but we don’t seem to know quite how to use him. Defensively he’s adequate, but seems to miss a few or get bumped off a bit too easily, but that’s fixable with some specialist coaching.

Overall good that he’s staying, but 4 years at 29 feels like 1 too long.

Yeh, 4 years sets a precedent on contract length.
Others will cite McDonald's deal in their own contract negotiations.
He's obviously athletic and expect he will stay pretty fit and very happy he's staying given he's been very good recently.
But does feel like a year too much.

2 years with an option both ways for a 3rd year.
Albeit a decent player 4 years at his age is ridiculous.
We will be giving Lisone 4 years next

Agree
Even though he is a decent player he's hardly a Keith Senior or Newman.
Can only assume we have got him on a reasonable deal.

Did you mean to put Newlove there?

I wouldnt say that Newman is that much better than MacDonald, has potential for sure but a lot to prove.

No one wanted him in Aus came to championship club who didn't want to keep him we give him 4 year deal he's ordinary at best when you think of Godden, Blackmore ,Innes,Senior not even as good as Iro who was crocked.

Half of super league is ordinary if you compare them to players of the past

Also Leigh did want to keep him but they had too many overseas players.

Im a miserable bugger but this guy makes me look like Santa! Cheer up lad.

If they rated him that highly he'd be still there its that simple my point is that the club no longer have the lure of attracting bigger name players or willing to pay either so that's where we're at 4 years I'm sure he'll bag a hat trick to celebrate.

Iro wasn't 'crocked' at Leeds. He played 124 games in about 4 seasons for us and played 3 seasons for Sts three years after leaving Leeds. On his day he was awesome. On others he was very average.

I couldn’t care less what Leigh think of him. He’s out player and can be a game changer, so worth a long deal imho….
Good age too

I know, its like hes expecting us to only sign SOO quality players and anything less isnt good enough

Anything to have a go at the club.

It's not that long ago we used to be among the top table sides but not at the moment Catalans, Saints, Warrington, Wigan all have 3 or 4 game changer player's we don't have one and yes I don't think the club have been very smart with recruitment hopefully that will change soon.

All 4 of those clubs would want MacDonald in their team at centre or winger.

Going off this weeks teams, he’s better than Thornley, King or Miski at Wigan, Hurrell and Bennison at saints, Russell or minikin at Wire and either centre at Catalan

Yes out recruitment hasn’t worked out great recently but it seems to be getting better

You don’t think Newman, Macdonald or Austin are game changers? (Granted Austin is inconsistent).

Wigans game changers have just lost to the wakey team that we got crucified for losing to. Warrington are completely off the boil without Williams.

This is 100% correct; Iro didn't have major injury issues at Leeds, he was just really hard to get worked up into the right mood.

It's almost as if the other poster doesn't know what he's talking about.

Wouldn’t be the first time…