Re: Ryan Bailey : Mon Nov 30, 2015 5:33 pm  

He's an average player but found his niche in the leeds team 04-14.

Since he's left the comfort zone of leeds his averageness has been laid bare for all to see.

The frothing at the mouth is ridiculous. These people are idiots. Bailey has never really done........anything! Odd high tackle here and there, occasional facial. Kids stuff.

He's not a dirty player of the game as such. You'd think he was Terry Newton level, running round with his elbow trying to kill people.

Re: Ryan Bailey : Mon Nov 30, 2015 8:15 pm  

ThePrinter wrote:

The meltdown over on their board right now is great. 4 different threads in reference to the Bailey signing with the main one already being 19 pages long and the first mentions of people refusing to buy Season Tickets because of this signing.
Classic Bailey

Why is the Meltdown great or unexpected?? the first page of your own forums thread on him starts with these nuggets below...all from Fans of Leeds who know Bailey better than any Wire fan.....

how could we win...? we sign Bailey and all explode, and you find it funny. We sign him and say "hey do you know what those Leeds fans haven't a Clue this Bailey feller is going to be fabulous,he'll get us to some more finals and be a great influence on our young academy players"...

crack on with these...but I guess you already know....

Bailey's as good as gone and his SL career with it too
If any Championship club fancies him then more fool them,But Queens could well be his next destination otherwise

If any team ever needs to show a bad example to a player to calm them down then it seems Bailey and Hock are great examples,

Agreed - both wasters that have had careers not to be sniffed at..... Bailey was extremely lucky to last how he did at Leeds. Unfortunately some of his mates careers suffered when he was the main ring leader - Calderwood is the greatest example - he could've been an absolute legend of the club if he'd have binned his mate and focused on his career more.

Good player! The shiftless good for nothing was allowed to steal a wage for too long. It's great to see props that run hard and straight.

he writing was on the wall when he started missing training at Headingley.He couldn't seem to care less about his testimonial either.First person to spot him on the doors in town let us know

Re: Ryan Bailey : Tue Dec 01, 2015 12:09 am  

That selection of comments is what some Leeds fans think. Others are probably a bit more rational - i.e. the guy had huge potential which he never quite realised, but he was genuinely an integral part of the team that won 6 competitions. The club clearly ran out of patience with him, and he really struggled to adjust at KR then Cas.

I quite deliberately called Les Boyd on your forum because some of your fans deify him - yet this was a player that only went to England because nobody in Australia would touch him with a bargepole following two of the most disgusting on-field attacks you'll ever see. I say attacks because neither was the act of a hard man - they were both acts of cowardly thuggery. I don't recall Wire fans at the time of Boyd's signing rushing to burn season tickets in signing such a player, who did far worse than even Bailey ever did.

Re: Ryan Bailey : Tue Dec 01, 2015 1:33 pm  

the flying biscuit wrote:

Why is the Meltdown great or unexpected?? the first page of your own forums thread on him starts with these nuggets below...all from Fans of Leeds who know Bailey better than any Wire fan.....

how could we win...? we sign Bailey and all explode, and you find it funny. We sign him and say "hey do you know what those Leeds fans haven't a Clue this Bailey feller is going to be fabulous,he'll get us to some more finals and be a great influence on our young academy players"...

crack on with these...but I guess you already know....

I don't think the crux of the matter is your or our individual views on Bailey. Its the fact that some of your fellow wire fans seem to have lost all sense of proportion. You've signed him as a bit part player, on a small wage and with plenty of get out clauses if he returns to behaving like a d1ck. But the (over)reactions of some on your board ignore both this and the fact that if he comes with the right mind set he could do a good job for you as he did for us. Talk of not buying season tickets etc off of the back of one minor signing seems like a massive over reaction.

Re: Ryan Bailey : Tue Dec 01, 2015 2:14 pm  

TOMCAT wrote:

Talk of not buying season tickets etc off of the back of one minor signing seems like a massive over reaction.

Doubt that's really about Bailey tbh. Once-vociferous fans don't want to be seen as fair weather by abandoning a team that's struggled so instead they search for "issues" by way of excuses. A few Wigan fans sulked in the same way when we turfed them out the play offs from fifth, claiming that the regular season was meaningless and they wouldn't be renewing. Our board would be no different; I bet similar threats would have been made in the "name of god, allah, go McDermott go" thread, had we not won the 2011 and 2012 titles.

Re: Ryan Bailey : Sat Jan 16, 2016 7:23 pm  

Warrington Wolves will start the new season without England utility back Stefan Ratchford and two of their new signings, Mitchell Dodds and Ryan Bailey.

Bailey will miss a reunion with his old Rhinos team-mates after being booked in for surgery in London next week to correct a mystery complaint that has dogged him for the past two years.

Warrington coach Tony Smith said: "He's been struggling with what was thought to be an Achilles problem for two years but, when we investigated, it was a muscle that some people grow around their Achilles.

"Not many people have it but he's got it in both legs and he pulled one in training.

"We're getting him operated on early next week and he's out for six to eight weeks which puts him out for the first four rounds."

"He's been in some dark places for the last couple of years," said former Leeds boss Smith. "He didn't cope well with leaving Leeds.

"I've been getting treated for the wrong injury for the last two years," said Bailey at Warrington's pre-season media day.

"That's what's been frustrating, that's why I got so down.

"I'm excited now because, once it's operated on, it's gone away forever. Hopefully I'll only miss four or five games."

Re: Ryan Bailey : Sat Jan 16, 2016 10:50 pm  

ThePrinter wrote:

Warrington Wolves will start the new season without England utility back Stefan Ratchford and two of their new signings, Mitchell Dodds and Ryan Bailey.

Bailey will miss a reunion with his old Rhinos team-mates after being booked in for surgery in London next week to correct a mystery complaint that has dogged him for the past two years.

Warrington coach Tony Smith said: "He's been struggling with what was thought to be an Achilles problem for two years but, when we investigated, it was a muscle that some people grow around their Achilles.

"Not many people have it but he's got it in both legs and he pulled one in training.

"We're getting him operated on early next week and he's out for six to eight weeks which puts him out for the first four rounds."

"He's been in some dark places for the last couple of years," said former Leeds boss Smith. "He didn't cope well with leaving Leeds.

"I've been getting treated for the wrong injury for the last two years," said Bailey at Warrington's pre-season media day.

"That's what's been frustrating, that's why I got so down.

"I'm excited now because, once it's operated on, it's gone away forever. Hopefully I'll only miss four or five games."

good luck to him let's not kick him when he's down .Has Owt been said on the Wire board ?must take a look

Re: Ryan Bailey : Sun Jan 17, 2016 8:36 am  

I have a feeling, he'll have a decent season for them.

Re: Ryan Bailey : Sun Jan 17, 2016 10:56 am  

Out of interest, how does his individual trophy count compare to Warrington's whole squad combined?

Re: Ryan Bailey : Sun Jan 17, 2016 1:09 pm  

Steve-O wrote:

Out of interest, how does his individual trophy count compare to Warrington's whole squad combined?

I reckon Bailey has 12 in his trophy count compared to the Warrington squad combined of 16.