When the inevitable happens and Rangi goes to Salford, that will free up (according to rumours) over £130K, maybe more if transfer fee involved.
Who do you think we should buy. ? Do you think one quality Aussie to replace him, or maybe 3 or 4 good English players.?
I personally think 3 good players, obviously a stand off, a quality second row forward who can bust tackles, and a centre.

I would hope a good % age of any transfer fee goes to Mr Calvert & his family. The salary issue is quite separate and there are several good Aussies/NZ ers available for that kind of money.

Tim Smith ?

id have tim smith,would of liked Gaskell too,rumours of ryan stig but I think they are just that,rumours.

would free up 180k of wage plus 200k+ transfer fee,and marc sneyd as part of deal

Wooooooaaaah! That's just crazy talk!

If Rangi is on £180000 a year at cas and if what I'm led to believe the transfer fee is £250000 thats £430000 cas have saves/made on Rangi leaving, that is going to help you big time for recruitment.

very true

However if you look at the transfer fee as split across two years that's £125k per year for players, which is likely to be really only two players you're able to get.

Personally, I'd get a replacement half for Chase (must) then a loose, prop, centre,

But won't you be saving Chase's salary also?

I see your point but if we go down next year it will end up costing us far more. A silly deal for the club to do imho

Either way Salford have got themselves the best half back in SL.

On topic, I'd ship Ellis out and use the Chase money added with Ellis wages and bring in a quality half back pairing. Not sure who is available and some scouting would be needed but Hull look to have got one decent HB in Miller.... Must be a few in the same mould floating about in OZ.

I think we have signed Luke Dorn who will probably play FB with Tansey at 6

Then we need to strengthen up in the centres and front row. Chubbs is great but we don't have a real big battering ram - I've been looking into some OOC aussies we could recruit but there's no quality there - if we can attract quality

I'm sorry but if we start our season next year with Dorn and Tansey as our Halves we are in trouble. Very underwhelmed at that prospect.

more likely to be dorn and sneyd at 6 and 7

Can't say I know too much about Sneyd tbh, I was hoping Dorn would be signing as a backup/rotation/sub player.

If the club has got rid of Rangi for what is being said on here next year it's a disgrace... Simple as !!!

Could be Dorn and Stig and Sneyd as back-up.

who would you "buy" then? Since you must have discovered we have more money than people are telling us
considering we can only really offer 1 year delas when we may face the axe

I wouldn't have sold a world class player for peanuts myself which could cost the club millions if we lose our SL status.

As we did if we actually scouted players worldwide and not just grab an over the hill London player we may be able to come up with another find (as Hull have with 20 Year old ? Jacob Miller). There are the players about if we could be bothered to look.

I think there's a little more to it than being bothered to look.
It's not the same as buying players on FIFA
we didn't "get rid" of Chase, he got offered a better contract elsewhere

We did get rid, he was under contract with us. We had the choice to say "rangi if you want to go to Salford, you have to wait until your contract runs out.... Sorry old cock but you signed a deal to stay so your staying" end of.

No we say give us a couple of hundred grand and tickle our belly mr. Koukash we have Luke Dorn coming

I signed a contract when I started my job as well, I'm fairly sure they can't tell me I have to stay...

Aside from mentioning Jacob Miller, you haven't said who would be better and available/affordable for us

We have only won 6 games this season with Rangi in the side. Maybe with Tansey/Dorn/Ellis/Sneyd in the team (in whichever combination) we might just play as a 'team' rather than a one man band.

I highly doubt we can afford stig

Don't talk like a wet fart, if we say Rangi stays he stays end of.... I'm pretty sure McDonald's contracts are easier to get out of than SL contracts

He can't play for Salford in SL unless we say so.... Impossible. We hold his registration.

So your saying Luke Dorn is the best available half in world RL for 2014 ??? Rangi was on £200k a year (we are led to believe ) so we sell him and replace him with Luke Dorn .... And that's the best we can come up with ??? It's a joke and tbh has left me questioning why I spend the money I do on Cas Tigers

I had a quick browse of the Zero Tackle website and the half backs available (off contract) in the NRL.

Its seems a straight choice between young, un-tried players (which Ryan Stig is one) and the experienced over 30 type (like Nathan Fien, Craig Gower)etc.

Its a pity Peter Wallace is still under contract at the Broncos in 2014, think he'd do well over here.

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