FWIW
I don’t think Randall in the end was value for money. Mainly due to injury which wasn’t his fault. Had he been fit and played more games then who knows, but it’s speculative at best.
Look at it this way, had it not been for a truly sunning debut he’s not done much, he’s been ok but ok isn’t what you look for on a quota player.
If you compare him to say Tupou or big Dave both of whom have had injuries then you get a better picture. Fifita in particular after a poor start was at times winning games on his own whilst Bill was wowing consistently!
Randell didn’t need to be that good but imo he rarely got close bar the Salford game. Truth is we could have signed a British player even one from the Championship and got similar or better and possibly cheaper.
Like PP Randell was a signing who had his moments but never really paid off. Luckily we don’t have too many of those.
Arona, Miller, Fifita, Tupou, Tanganoa have all paid off big time, they are all better in there own ways than any British players available to us. With two spots left let’s not rush, apart from hooker we are not that short of players, I don’t see the point on dragging a player halfway around the world unless one he’s already a star, or two, has the potential to be one.
We seem to do better with the latter.
