Ryan Bailey??? : Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:55 am
I'll be interested to know what everyones thoughts are on Ryan Bailey??
As a Leeds Season ticket holder I've been watching him for a few years now and Im unsure on him as a player. I started watching Superleague post 2004 so I never saw him playing for Great Britain and therefore never saw this form that warranted such a call up. I'm aware how high a regard that Leeds hold him in, Brian McClennon especially makes no secret of this, but for me he needs to step his game up abit. In my opinon he is in no doubt used by Leeds as an "impact player" coming off the bench as a big but also very mobile forward. It seems to me he concedes alot of penalties very easily. Do we think he is used as an agrressive player from the "get in there and rough them up abit" sort of angle? Or do with think he just gets carried away occasionally? It is also clear at the end of the day in sport that individuals can be doing great things for the team without it being seen; Do we think this is the case?
At the end of the day he's been part of a winning Leeds team that has proven themselves as a unit and no doubt he has as an individual (like the others have) proven themselves within this unit.
Im a total Leeds fan, and I would never want to appear to "slag a player off" as such and this is not my intention nor the point in this message. I have the up most respect for the athletes in our game and appreciate I am indeed no coach; nor do I claim to be. I'd just be interested to see what everyone thinks on this.
Cheers
