He is English of course, would he be classed as home grown ?



Defensively he is poor IMO, If he had anything about him NRL teams would be queing up for him.

At best he is good enough for the standard over here but at Test level he was found wanting and was less effective again IMO

This is a joke? isn't it?....





Rock 'n' Roll.

decent player, would prob go well for us, no way in the world we should be looking at anything like 350k.

Rangi Chase is overrated in my opinion and there numerous other players that would be better suited at 6 for Wigan.

Decent player that stands out more in a poor team. No way is he worth 350k though. Let Wire have him if they want to make silly offers.

i would love to see this extensive list........

Oh pray do tell.

This should be good.

Let's hear a feasible list of stand off's more suited to Wigan?

I think Matty smith there won't be a silly fee involved there. Surely we have a stand off coming through that can do the job. Rangi is rubbish in defence so i don't see why him I'd see him as another tim smith tbh. But marginally better maybe.

The Cas attendance is wrong, it's over a thousand out....and it was against Salford where Wakey played Hull...Cas got over 9000 against Hull already this season.

SINFIELD !

I dont buy into this ,chase wont fit into our systems bullox, Chase is an off the cuff player much the way that sam is. I am sure after a full pre season the team will guide him to how we want to play. As for matty smith i always thought he had something about him , if we have signed him i hope he shows his worth. There are a lot worse half back pairings out there than chase and smith.

The more I think about this, the more it reminds me of the fuss when it was announced that Wigan would be signing Brett Kenny as that meant former incumbent in the no. 6 shirt, Mark Cannon, might be dropped.

I'm not for one moment saying that Chase is another Brett Kenny - not be any stretch of the imagination - but he's probably one of the best options available in the UK at present (if not the only one) and people looking for reasons why we shouldn't sign him are making a big mistake IMO.

Though in retrospect it seems ridiculous, some folk were genuinely peeved about Kenny coming because of Mark (who? - exactly) Cannon. With Chase it's for equally spurious reasons.

Aside from one moment of thuggery and a completely unjust Man of Steel award - which rumour has it was mainly to do with the Leeds and Warrington players - he's a very decent player, who could be made even better once he comes under Shaun Wane's discipline.

Laughing at some of the posters suggesting Chase isn't good enough and we don't need him



He's the best 6 in SL, we aint going to get Soward or anyone else of Wigan standard from the NRL, he's young, he's 'english', he can tackle and is the reigning Man Of Steel.

There's no pleasing some people.

Get him signed up IL, even if it's more than £350,000, maybe add a bit more and get Clark also and loan them a few youngsters in the next few seasons aswell.

If we sign Chase I will be chuffed.

I agree apart from for me Finch is the best 6 in the league

Agreed

Technically Finch is a traditional 7 and he won't be here next season, Chase will be the best 6 in the league next year was more my point.

Now Finch at 7 and Chase at 6 would have been nice.

I would be astounded if we actually paid a £100,000 fee for Chase
imo he's a one trick pony and an expensive one too
IF we cant sign a decent 6 for next season i would rather have Lockers at 6 rather than Chase

Of course Dobson would love to leave HKR and play for you, it goes without saying

If Lockers plays 6 and Chase signs for Wire I don't see us winning anything next year, whereas I could see Wire winning trophies.

£350k for a player that could be with us for 5-6 years is not that bad. He could be the new Tommy.

Could be a good deal. Let's wait & see.

I'd be happy with Smith & Chase as our halves next year.

Behind a monster pack of Hock. Mossop, Lockers, Hansen, Dudson, Flower, Luakie and who ever else we sign.

prescott.

Chase is definitely the best 6 we can [urealistically[/u get to replace Finch. None of the halves in the 20's look capable of stepping up in the next year or two (we'll wait and see on Powell when he regains his fitness, and George Williams looks special but is only 17) so why not get Chase? I think he'd fit into our offensive systems very well. Giving him more runners to work with would only make him more dangerous, and the accusation that he's a one-trick-pony is pretty much wiped out by looking at his number of try assists in the last 18 months. He can put people through gaps or go through gaps himself, which is basically what Finchy has done well this season