The thing is, he is playing the tougher role of the two hookers.
If he played the bench role I'd say he would do more running at the line and break.
I'm sure he is following the game plan playing the way he is right now.

I also considered that point but then looked at the evidence to support it.


As far as I saw it, for well over the first half of the season we saw Randell starting and doing all or most of first half. Then around half time on comes Woody and the intensity and speed rises another gear. Woody is then taken off after about 20/25 minutes and Randell returns for the last quarter. The defence is now obviously tired but still he doesn't scoot or keep things lively.


I will say it again, he is not a bad player and earns his place in the team. But value for money is very questionable.

Do we actually have a game plan?

How do we know his value for money if we don`t know how much he is payed? I remember an interview with MC a few years back talking about how he had seen so much about a certain overseas player been over paid and not worth his salary yet he was nowhere near one of the top earners and certainly not what had been thrown about on here, it was all based on assumptions. At the end of the day only the club and the player themselves know for certain what there pay package and the rest is hear say.

At this point if Randell was out of contract at the end of the season along with Arona and we needed the quota spot I would probably rather keep Arona.

When it comes to Randell I wonder if Chester has ever thought about giving him a run in the halves? He has played quite a lot there throughout his career, from what I have seen he has good direction, good distribution and has a good long kicking game which is something we are lacking massively!

Couldn't agree more there Homme Vaste.

For all we know, we may already have that nippy organising half in our possession, who can get us around the pitch. He just isn't playing in that role.

Also very true, regarding salaries, we can only presume and speculate, but the truth of the matter, there will only be very few people who will know what kind of salary he is on.

Yes you are correct I don't know his salary. However I do know he is the highest paid player at the club and that is what I base his 'value' on.

You know that how?

How exactly do you know that? surely big Dave would be our highest earner, anyhow I think with Randell the question is more is he worth a quota spot

I got shot down for talking about player salaries a few weeks back and Prince Buster was one of the users giving it large. Funny how you're in the know now, weird how you can know he's the highest paid player for sure but haven't mentioned a number yet...

That is very clearly not true.
Don't start throwing false news around just to rescue your point.

We get you don't think he's as good as you expected. Be happy with that.

sorry but he just isnt!

OK I do apologise and stand corrected.

Coward, prove him wrong!

So on top of TJ no longer being up to scratch on the Northstanders FB group, the constant slagging of Lyne across all platforms and the Kirmond not fit for purpose narative on the internet we now have Randell is no good. Maybe we sack him off and get Stuart Howarth back

Tommy Lee maybe?