YORK City Knights are bidding to bring former Super League winger Waine Pryce to Huntington Stadium.

The burly former Castleford wide-man, who represented England ‘A’ earlier in his career, is out of contract at Championship outfit Featherstone and The Press believes the Knights have offered him a deal for 2010 – though they are unlikely to be alone.

The Knights are also thought to have offered a contract to another former Cas product, Jason Payne, the fiery prop forward who made five Super League appearances for the Tigers before moving up to Gateshead, helping the Tynesiders to the National League Two (Championship One) title last year.

Pryce, 28, a cousin of St Helens’ Great Britain and England star Leon Pryce, made his senior debut for Cas in 2000 after coming through the youth system at The Jungle.

He went on to score 81 tries in 140 appearances – his standout season being 2005 when he notched 30 touchdowns in 28 games as the Tigers bounced back to the top tier by storming to the NL1 title – before badly breaking his leg in the 2006 Super League campaign, missing the last two months of the season as his side yo-yoed back down.

Pryce stayed in the top tier in 2007 with Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, playing 13 times and scoring five tries, before joining nearby Featherstone in 2008.

He bagged 24 tries in 47 appearances for Rovers over the past two years but a move is now on the cards and the Knights would be keen to have him at York, to offer more experience and threat in the three-quarters.

Pryce has also represented England ‘A’ five times – against New Zealand, Tonga and Fiji and in the 2003 European Nations Cup against Russia and Wales.

Payne made two starts for Cas in 2006 and ’07, plus three substitute appearances, before moving north, initially on loan and then permanently. He has since played 52 times for the Thunder, scoring two tries, and, while he was a big player in their 2008 title success, he missed the second half of this season in the Championship due to a groin problem.

The Knights have recently lost front-row stalwart Adam Sullivan to Hunslet and Sean Hesketh to Batley and don’t want to rely mainly on youngsters brought in from Super League academies to fill the void in the pack.

Meanwhile, former Knights captain Lee Paterson, who has been linked with a potential return to Huntington Stadium, is set to go for a second spell with Carpentras when his European Cup commitments with Scotland end.

The 28-year-old loose-forward cum stand-off, who has been with Widnes for the past two seasons following his first spell over the Channel, will be free to come back to England when the French Elite League season ends in April, and the door to could be left open for a return to home-town club York.