they never said new signing specially with clubs wanting him in oz im happy for one

Got to be honest, I am suprised he wants to stay! You must be offering him a huge wedge! No offence...

Nothing thats why its a dud, Poskitt what is it we pay you for??

He always said he wanted to stay at Cas and wasn't interested in going anywhere else. Just proves he is as good as his word and loyal.

Unlike a lot of players these days

Hats off to him and your club for securing him, like I said must be costing you a good wedge, media wise your club need to up there game a bit! Your club sites isn't even updated and the conference was supposedly 30 minutes ago!

The contract extension of Rangi Chase is indeed great news, but is it still news when most of us have known it for the last few weeks anyway? It is just a contract after all - the announcement won't stop Leeds, Warrington and Hull fans constantly reminding us that contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on.

The decision to call a press conference to announce this 'news' is an epic fail on the club's part and has clearly made a negative impact with the fans who desperately want to see the squad strengthened.

Our club is becoming a complete joke for stunts like this.
Contract extension for Rangi is great news but to go to the hype that the club have with it is ridiculous. We don't need a media circus for an extension, it needs to be for big, new, signings

It's one of those damned if you do and damned if you don't scenario's...
If the club had just put on the website that a current player would be signing an extension to his contract, then it wouldn't have attracted anywhere near the same kind of publicity as this announcement has...
It's massive and no doubt cost the club a lot of money, so they did right to make something of it and we've arguably tied up the best player in Superleague on a long term contract, a player who has been instrumental in the relative success we've enjoyed, had it not been for our horrendous injuries I'm sure we would have gone on to even better things in 2011.
We do need more signings, but this sends out all the right kinds of signals to the rugby league world and to players we may want to bring onboard.
I have to applaud everyone concerned with making this happen!
Also have to thank Rangi for putting his faith in the club, as I know there will have been a lot of pressure on him from other quarters.

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A bold statement from the board - now, less talk, more action please.

Was just about to post the same.

The article states we want to build a squad around him. Signing players is a good start!!

on the plus side it has caused a loiner to embaress himself by saying he isnt good enough for leeds on there board

disappointments a female dog aint it.

Ya know i thought exactly the same..have a word in his shell get him to sign extended contract so it in theory puts any future transfer fee up. He will no doubt get a pay rise off his new club & cas will get a nice lump in the bank.

Or of course he loves cas & is happy to stay!

Unbelievable Cas..Disgusting. Although happy with rangi staying, i have had no sleep last night with the excitement. You now owe me 7.5 hrs of sleep...maybe i will be asleep through 5 rugby matches!!

Nothing to moan about - not a 1 yr extension or anything plastic, this is a long term deal from a player who could probably have got on most run on teams in SL and got a deal in Oz.

We talk about ambition and looking forward, what more do you want as an opening salvo.

Add to this in the coming weeks some contract extensions for younger players then it sends all the right messages in my opinion. I think this is the long term view that the signings we should trumpet are the retention and building ones, people coming in from outside are important, but not the primary driver.

Good start, good statement and I agree though that talk is cheap and it needs to be followed through - But I woudl rather see us do things well rather than do things quick.

Perhaps in the background there has been a massive amount of interest in Rangi from other clubs, and serious offers talked about behind closed doors etc.

Hence, we have only been privy to a small part of what has really been going on. As a result the 'punchline' to the story isn't quite as exciting to us, as it has been to those who've been part of the full saga.

I am however pretty sure that RW has promised us that our coach would be of the calibre to entice 3 or 4 top quality players with him to Cas. Also the words 'quality not quantity' spring to mind. Let's hope he can stretch the quantity to more than 1 though!