Danny Walker out to become a Wire legend and bring league title to town

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WARRINGTON Wolves hooker Danny Walker says the dream of ending the club’s league title drought kept him from taking a lucrative deal to move to Australia.

Walker, 25, penned a new five-year deal at the Halliwell Jones Stadium last week having come close to joining NRL club Canberra Raiders.

But after taking time to consider his decision after the end of season in which the Wolves reached the Challenge Cup final and the Super League play-off semi-finals, Walker opted to stay at his hometown club until at least the end of 2029.

And he said one of the main reasons for deciding to stay was that he wanted to be part of the team that finally brings that elusive Super League title to the town.

He said: “I’m over the moon. It took a fair bit of time, but now I’m just glad to know that for the next four or five years I’m here.

“I was close to going. My mind was changing probably every other day. When the season ended, I had a proper sit down and spoke to my family and had a good think about what I wanted out of my career. It’s a decision that I’m absolutely made up with and I’m really excited about the future.

“I think any player would be stupid not to listen to offers (from the NRL). t would have been pretty hard on the missus. It would have been a big ask to go there with two kids and no other help.

“But the main thing that swayed me in wanting to stay here is I could never forgive myself if I wasn’t part of the Warrington team that went on to win the Super League title and I’m really confident that we’ve got the squad with the direction that it’s going in, that we can do it.”

Walker, who has two daughters under the age of four, arrived from Widnes ahead of the 2019 season and has earned England international honours in the last 18 months, and will be a candidate for selection for the Ashes series at the end of the year.

He is yet to win any silverware for his hometown club – he wasn’t part of the 2019 Challenge Cup winning team – but can see that changing on the horizon with Warrington desperate to end a run dating back to 1955 since they won the league.

Walker added: “I still look up to the lads who won the Challenge Cup in 2009 because that was the first time we’d won that in years. It’d be nice to be known as a legend.”


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