He encourages the opposition to look for the big gang hit on him after an 'incident'.

Just watch him, he will always keep the ball away from the impact of the tackle and will offload if it is 'on'. He will happily take the 3 man tackle, but when the defenders pick themselves up from the floor they usually find plenty of egg on their faces and a grinning Ryan Bailey running past them.

Excellent tactics as always TMFMISL.

Bailey's the pantomime villain, in much the same way Davidson and Matautia were at Saints and Graham is now for Leeds fans.

Characters like that are good for the game providing they stay just the right side of the line into thuggery, something which Matautia was occasionally incapable of doing.

Was that before or after FGB laid on the game changing try?





Spot on (although if we're talking thuggery, I don't recall Vila being arrested for shoeing someone in the street

). Hopefully we'll see some fireworks at the weekend - the teams certainly dislike one another enough!

Either way it was deffo before his tears at Headingley.





Bless him.

Yeah, he tended to reserve his assaults for on the field of play.



Bailey is more like Davidson, only better. I can remember Davidson winding up a young Adrian Morley to the point where Moz got himself sent off. Job done.

Ahhh, Paul Davidson. What an absolute t*sser. Even as a Saints fan I couldn't stand him.

Probably something to do with him flicking his own fans the V as he got booed off the pitch



Come to think of it, perhaps he was Matt King's boyhood hero.

There was a rugby league forum recently in warrington and a number of players were on the panel, from a number of teams. lets just say they were all less than complimentary about Bailey as a player and a person

No there wasn't, don't lie.

but that is it dont you understand he is not on the field to make friends he is there to win things which he is and has done....

To be fair to Graham he's a cut above all these characters mentioned in the thread so far.

Bailey isn't this master of the art of self discipline either. He is a decent defender, offers absolutely nothing in attack and at times costs Leeds with his lack of discipline. The few incidents where he has wound players up weren't deliberately done to that effect, he just didn't fancy the battle after them. He's no enforcer either, just a solid middle of the road prop.

His willingness to play for Leeds for less money than a first team prop should cost is the main reason he's lasted at Leeds IMO.

Where was this?

Who was on the panel?

When did this happen?

Cheers.

Of course it is.

Ten penalties in ten games this season in SL - less than that well known indisciplined thug Paul Sykes as it happens.

. . . who plays 80 minutes every week.

The only props I can see above RB in the most penalised players are LMS (well known for terrible discipline), Morley (likewise and plays much longer spells than RB), Andy Coley (an all time King of penalties) and Andy Raleigh.

how much does he get paid? how much do all the other first team props get paid?

I'd imagine that Bailey has averaged 50mins a game this season, and would get through a hell of a lot more work that Sykes

We're talking Ryan Bailey here dude. He's managed carries in single figures, metres made in the 40s in the past.

You want him in your side don't you??

You've over compensated your dislike for him too much for their to be any other logical reasoning behind your train of thought.

And 'dude' are you still in the 90's?

I'd be interested in knowing this too.

He seems to know alot about TMFMISL.

Man crush - gotta be.

Unless you are him you've got no room to speak about this. But then again, you can't be Ryan Bailey as you can type and acronymise.

How much?

Why?





Stop dodging the topic, back up your previous blah blah blah.

What are the players on? The same crack as you by the sounds of it.

And what proportion of Pens are given away while in posession? Maybe 10%

And how many of these are for 'thugish' acts? Maybe 10% of these

I'd say about 1% overall.

Defensively, where most pens are given away, I'd wager that Bailey gets through more work in a match than Sykes

Please Mods, can we not have a quota to the amount of Bailey threads we have on this board?

It's got to be the most boring subject going now. A fine debate for the first couple of times, but now just ridiculous.

Never could such an average player have got so much discussion. But he is a player who does the job he is paid to do and what every other squad needs.

He is far better than what the silly Saints and Hull fans make out, and nothing close to been dirty like they say. But he is nowhere near as good as some way over the top blinkered Leeds fans would have you believe either.