Re: Ryan Bailey : Fri Apr 05, 2013 8:54 pm  

rhinos21 wrote:

Bailey is a good player, if he wasn't he wouldn't have been here for so long especially under experienced coaches.

That just about sums it up, game set and match I believe .

Re: Ryan Bailey : Fri Apr 05, 2013 8:58 pm  

WireWireWire wrote:

Bailey is, in my opinion, simply a thug in a rugby kit. He really is not super league quality, and every single time I see him, he does something disgusting and not in the spirit of the game, I'm not joking either with the every single time.

CC win, I forget which one, but on the last play of the game, he dropped all of his weight with a swinging arm to a prone Chris Riley on the ground. There were two incidents at Catalan, there was the instance he was about to lamp Richie Myler in the GF, during the match against Bradford the other week he came 3rd or 4th man in to a fight swinging punches, there he wasn't the only one, but he revelled in the fight and that's all he was interested in from then on. Those ones are just off the top of my head. I never actually see him make a break or lay one on. He had the chance to put Leeds in front at the 2010 CC final and rather than going for the line he decided he was going to run over Richie Mathers, a plan that failed spectacularly.

I just cannot abide the man.

Seriously, did ANYBODY, let alone Bailey actually throw a meaningful punch in the melee with Bradford last week?

Bailey does no more of any of these things than half the other props in the league. He didn't invent the slightly late arrival on the opposition half back, the prop's high shot and certainly wasn't first to throw a punch on a rugby field.

There are plenty of dirtier players around.

Re: Ryan Bailey : Fri Apr 05, 2013 9:02 pm  

WireWireWire wrote:

Bailey is, in my opinion, simply a thug in a rugby kit. He really is not super league quality, and every single time I see him, he does something disgusting and not in the spirit of the game, I'm not joking either with the every single time.

CC win, I forget which one, but on the last play of the game, he dropped all of his weight with a swinging arm to a prone Chris Riley on the ground. There were two incidents at Catalan, there was the instance he was about to lamp Richie Myler in the GF, during the match against Bradford the other week he came 3rd or 4th man in to a fight swinging punches, there he wasn't the only one, but he revelled in the fight and that's all he was interested in from then on. Those ones are just off the top of my head. I never actually see him make a break or lay one on. He had the chance to put Leeds in front at the 2010 CC final and rather than going for the line he decided he was going to run over Richie Mathers, a plan that failed spectacularly.

I just cannot abide the man.

Clueless blind T!T.

Re: Ryan Bailey : Fri Apr 05, 2013 11:12 pm  

rhinos21 wrote:

Bailey is a good player, if he wasn't he wouldn't have been here for so long especially under experienced coaches.

Not only that, but he has played in every Grand Final & Challenge Cup Final that Leeds have been in while at the club - and every World Club Challenge bar one as well (he missed this year's game through injury).

Not bad going that, for someone who is "not Super League quality"

Re: Ryan Bailey : Sat Apr 06, 2013 8:05 am  

WireWireWire wrote:

Bailey is, in my opinion, simply a thug in a rugby kit. He really is not super league quality, and every single time I see him, he does something disgusting and not in the spirit of the game, I'm not joking either with the every single time.

I just cannot abide the man.

Yet you'll kiss Ben Westwood's poop-chute? Must be some other reason for your hatred. Hmm!

Re: Ryan Bailey : Sat Apr 06, 2013 10:51 am  

I'm one of the very few opposition fans who have stuck up for Bailey over the years. Yes he is an annoying bugger who plays to the limit (and sometimes beyond). However every really good team I've ever seen has always had one of his type in their side.
My favourite memory of Bailey was when he and Gaz Hock got stuck into the Aussie academy side (they had never been beaten until then) at Knowsley Road in an U18's game. The Aussie lads didn't like it and finished up in tears and defeat at the end of the game. In the second game at Headingley, a few days later they gave them some more.

Re: Ryan Bailey : Sat Apr 06, 2013 11:37 am  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

I'm one of the very few opposition fans who have stuck up for Bailey over the years. Yes he is an annoying bugger who plays to the limit (and sometimes beyond). However every really good team I've ever seen has always had one of his type in their side.
My favourite memory of Bailey was when he and Gaz Hock got stuck into the Aussie academy side (they had never been beaten until then) at Knowsley Road in an U18's game. The Aussie lads didn't like it and finished up in tears and defeat at the end of the game. In the second game at Headingley, a few days later they gave them some more.

Yes,but you know what your talking about,when your being serious.We are all waiting for wire wire wire to come back on on

Re: Ryan Bailey : Sat Apr 06, 2013 11:53 am  

Rogues is highlighting two players there - Bailey and Hock.

Most of the fans defending Bailey's antics will probably be among the first to criticise Hocks - such is life in the one eyed world of fans.

Hock and Westwood are great forwards, Bailey could be if he concentrated more on the rugby and less on the panto.

Posters will also note that those claiming Bailey makes breaks can only really come up with a single example of him doing so. I can also remember one at Hull KR where he set Watkins away and got knocked out by Briscoe for his trouble - there may have been others but he has played 281 times for Leeds so I guess you'd have to hope so but I don't think making breaks is an aspect he's particularly noted for - if I'm wrong lets have some more examples.

Re: Ryan Bailey : Sat Apr 06, 2013 12:35 pm  

However, my issue is with the unwarranted levels of vitriol and attention Ryan gets. I genuinely believe there is some deep rooted racism, conscious or not, behind it all. "Them boys should be playing on the wing after all". I know Bullseye is right and I shouldn't generalise but I can think of no other way to rationalise the disproportionate reaction to someone who, as Bullseye also points out, has a relatively clean record for a forward playing the game as long as he has.[/quote]
---- load of *bo*ll*ks---*disgraceful post* imo! using that old chestnut as an excuse!!!! a thug and a bully is a thug and a bully--regardless of what you are trying to insinuate!!!!!!

Re: Ryan Bailey : Sat Apr 06, 2013 1:20 pm  

he was never offside wrote:

However, my issue is with the unwarranted levels of vitriol and attention Ryan gets. I genuinely believe there is some deep rooted racism, conscious or not, behind it all. "Them boys should be playing on the wing after all". I know Bullseye is right and I shouldn't generalise but I can think of no other way to rationalise the disproportionate reaction to someone who, as Bullseye also points out, has a relatively clean record for a forward playing the game as long as he has.

---- load of *bo*ll*ks---*disgraceful post* imo! using that old chestnut as an excuse!!!! a thug and a bully is a thug and a bully--regardless of what you are trying to insinuate!!!!!! [/quote]
What?