YORK City Knights captain Lee Jackson is to speak to the club about renewing his contract for another year.

The 35-year-old hooker came to Huntington Stadium in 2003 on a two-year deal and, after spending time considering his future, reckons he could carry on for another year, if the right deal was offered.

"I will speak to Steve (Ferres, Knights chief executive) and we will go from there," the former Great Britain international told the Evening Press.

"Sunday's result will have no bearing on it. I think I could have another year, but we'll see what the club says. I will see what Steve says and we will go from there.

"It would be nice to take them up the first division."

That the Knights are not already in division one of the LHF Healthplan National League is down to their defeat on Sunday in the play-off final, when three late tries gave Halifax a 34-30 win.

"Everybody is more disappointed with the way we lost," said Jackson (pictured).

"We had the game won but let in 18 points in the last ten minutes. We had done everything right, we got in front and then we just turned off. We probably thought we had done enough.

"I missed a vital tackle on (Ricky) Sheriffe for the penultimate try when he went on the blind side and you could say that was a contributing factor, but people have done a few things that you could pinpoint. Everybody is totally disappointed."

Jackson was pragmatic about the controversial Alan Hadcroft try, as given by the video referee, which sparked Fax's late revival.

"It's a hard call," he said. "The video ref is always going to go with the attacking side, that's the rules. I think the kid did not think himself that he had scored because he went to line up for the play-the-ball.

"But you can't just blame it on that. It was a combination of things, of errors and of not playing smart.

"We knew we had the game won but the game is 80 minutes long not 60 or 70."

Updated: 10:18 Tuesday, October 12, 2004