THE NRMA Insurance Broncos have today secured the future of their all-important ‘spine’ after Andrew McCullough inked a new two-year contract with the club.

The 25-year-old hooker, who has already racked up 154 NRL matches for the club, will be a Bronco until at least the end of the 2017 season.

The news is a big boost for Broncos’ members and fans, with McCullough a hot property on the open market.

It also comes in the week the Broncos have risen to the outright lead of the NRL ladder under returned coach Wayne Bennett.

McCullough’s signing means the play-making backbone of the Broncos’ team is now secured for the long term, with the hooker joining halfback and great mate Ben Hunt, five-eighth Anthony Milford and fullback Darius Boyd as contracted until the finish of 2017.

Dalby-raised McCullough said today it was great to finalise the arrangement with the club he has been with since his early teens.

It also means he and childhood friend Hunt will play alongside each other for at least another three seasons.

“It’s been going on for the last three or four months so it is exciting,” he said.

“The good thing is I had a lot of people, including the Broncos and my management, making sure negotiations were clean and there were no arguments.

“You look at the calibre of players you are playing beside. It is good to cement that ‘spine’.”

“’Hunty’ and I are from totally different areas from Queensland and we started in under 12s together.

“We have been great mates all along.

“It’s exciting we are still close mates now and to be able to play another two-and-a-half years together is great.”

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