Just read a few tweets & it says Rangi is staying at Cas & something to be announced at 1pm tomorrow, ?????????????

Saw that too. This whole situation just needs resolving now. The whole will he/won't he circus isn't doing anyone any good.

You'll all be let down when nothing is announced. Why do you think Salford have moved their player announcement until the last game of the season, it's so Chase can continue the rest of the season without any mither.

The Rangi U-turn rumour defies logic for all sorts of reasons.



That said, surely it'd be better for all concerned just to put the whole thing to bed once and for all.

Or the thug has turned you down and it gives the venerable DR time to beg someone else to join.

I wouldn't get any hopes up Frank. He's be announced as a Salford player on 6th September - that I am sure of. I'll be glad when its over TBH. The whole Salford media attention grabbing circus is getting a bit tedious now and its disruping a lot of clubs this season when there is still something to play for.

To be fair to Koukash, he says on the official website that announcements of signed/signing players is delayed at the wishes of their current Clubs. I'm just as fed-up as everyone else with this prolonged saga, but it seems that Salford are not the ones to blame.

The only thing I find distasteful about it is how Salford have targetted players already under contract. Other than that I don't blame them for anything. Salford have struck gold by landing MK as benefactor.

Apparently last night Dave Mathews CEO, DR Koukash, Brian Noble and Rangi Chase went down to Leeds to sign 2 players. One of them mentioned was Tim Smith the other I do not know.

The thing is, if they approach a Club to ask permission to approach a player and they give permission, nobodies done anything wrong. I understand the possibility of unsettling a player but if everything is done to all parties satisfaction as these things obviously have done, I don't see a problem.



As a Salford fan we have been on the other end of it too. Where a Club is buttering-up a player soon to come off contract and that player loses focus and professionalism. Maybe nobody did anything wrong in the process of this happening but it sticks in the throats of fans who see it differently.



In the case of Chase, when it finally gets announced, the money injected into your Club should be the way that Clubs behave towards one another. I'm not a fan of 'Wealthy' Clubs trying to get something for nothing as has long been the case with Salford losing talent. If money flows between Clubs it can only strengthen the game as a whole.

First paragraph: No, on base principle, they aren't. If you think a "Super League contract" (whatever that means) dictates that "a player has signed for three years therefore he must play for three years" you are outrageously off the mark. To say that Cas have "got rid" of Chase, well, frankly that's a point I don't think needs addressing.



Second paragraph: You STILL haven't named any names.... What you are failing to see is that, from the NRL, anything but the top 3/4 clubs here is a massive step down. You talk about Dorn being over the hill, fair enough, but if you expect us to get a quality half back at the peak of their career, you are outrageously off the mark once more. We can either get a "Jamie Ellis young and unproven" type, or a "Brent Sherwin milking the sport for a pension" type. Agreed, I'd rather have a young player, but Ellis has been slated for not being good enough this year when he is only 21, so the club can't win really. Unfortunately, most young NRL half-backs would rather play Toyota Cup than come to a poor SL team. The other exception would be a "Tim Smith" type, who was at his peak but couldn't get into the Cronulla team and his career was passing him by

I think you're spot-on here.



There simply isn't enough world-class halfbacks in either hemisphere, regardless of how much money you flash. The best option from overseas is the fringe players who struggle to break into or back into first team sides. If you can tempt them away from the other side of the world. I feel that Cas will be damned if they do, damned if they don't. You'll be unlikely to get like for like when Chase goes, but that does not mean it's the end of the world.