Sign up now!!!<\/a><\/p>\nCiraldo: “We didn’t take our chances!” | 04:38<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom a recruitment and retention perspective, this is exactly the kind of signing that underpins our strategy to bring Premiership success to the Knights.<\/p>\n
\u201cRetaining your very best players, the ones who understand your culture, who drive your standards, who want to win here, is fundamental to everything we are trying to achieve.<\/p>\n
\u201cKalyn makes every player he plays alongside better and with the exceptional young talent we have coming through, there are exciting times ahead for this squad.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ponga said the decision to extend was an easy one, driven by his belief in the club\u2019s future.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo lock that in and know I\u2019m still going to be part of the Knights journey, I\u2019m extremely grateful.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019ve been here for 10 years and where we are now, the people within it, the direction of the club, the players that are coming through, I know I want to be here.<\/p>\n
\u201cJustin has created an environment that everyone wants to be a part of, come in every day and learn and train and get better. He\u2019s obviously a big part of it all as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to win a Premiership here and I want to do it so badly. I\u2019ve now got the opportunity to keep chasing that dream and that\u2019s what I see in the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Knights have received a massive boost with skipper Kalyn Ponga shunning rival clubs and codes to ink…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2620,2095,64,63,4428,142607,304881,150383,304883,304878,198133,763,2105,7681,1809,304882,304880,2623,4746,228679,190144,6407,2627,67736,4495,2041,764,2067,28879,304879,2528,2633,217323,94365,10134,85,51019,2614],"class_list":{"0":"post-629107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-agence-france-presse","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-brisbane-broncos","13":"tag-contract-renewal","14":"tag-elite-person","15":"tag-elite-player","16":"tag-exceptional-young-talent","17":"tag-extraordinary-commitment","18":"tag-five-year-contract-extension","19":"tag-fox-league","20":"tag-getty-images-inc","21":"tag-ian-hitchcock","22":"tag-injury-crisis","23":"tag-knights-bombshell","24":"tag-landmark-extension","25":"tag-las-vegas","26":"tag-mark-st-john","27":"tag-massive-boost","28":"tag-mega-extension","29":"tag-michael-maguire","30":"tag-nevada","31":"tag-new-zealand-all-blacks","32":"tag-newcastle-knights","33":"tag-north-america","34":"tag-north-queensland-cowboys","35":"tag-northern-america","36":"tag-premiership-success","37":"tag-retention-perspective","38":"tag-rival-clubs","39":"tag-rugby-union","40":"tag-selection-headache","41":"tag-signs-extension","42":"tag-single-day","43":"tag-sports","44":"tag-three-year-contract-extension","45":"tag-united-states-of-america"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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