i presume he is allowed into canada? he was always missing for games in the united states which many reckoned was due to his jail term

Must be. Hope the lad makes a real go of it. We never saw what he should have been regularly. I remember seeing him at Sidall against Halifax Academy and he and Chev were head and shoulders the best players on the paddock. A proper case of should have.

SACKED by Toronto

What a difference 9 month makes

Bailey,Taylor and Moi Moi sacked by Toronto ? incident at training camp in Portugal, Taylor not even played a game for them yet ! this Toronto lark is turning RL into laughing stock. Can't play home games for months, training in Manchester ! lets face it they are just Leigh reserves really.

They're hardly the first RL team who have had to release/suspend players because of disciplinary issues.

TBF 9 months at one club is a pretty decent stint going by his record since he left Leeds.

did he play in Canada?

Apparently he doesn't do what he wants, what a pillock.

3 allegedly grown men and they can't behave themselves for a weeks training camp

It’s the players who are the joke not Toronto
It’s quite clear why they don’t play home games alternate weeks

Watching Bailey's career over time is like a car crash in slow-motion. There's a horrible feeling of inevitability about how he'll end up.

On the doors?

would they have him on the doors ?

Quite amazing how the guy lasted a decade with us considering he has lurched from club to club since he left.

I hope i'm wrong but it's easy to see him going down the Malcolm Alker kind of route once he calls time on his career (if that has not already been forced on him) he is obviously not the brightest and i can imagine he mingles with with some dodgy characters away from rugby.

Had his testimonial a couple of year ago and couldn't be bothered to promote that very much.

think we've seen the last of him now unless he turns out for Queens ARL

I have always had these self same thoughts and even whilst Ryan was still playing for Leeds,Let's hope that we're both wrong BrisbaneRhino

I hope he surprises everyone in a positive way.

Let`s hope so.
As long as he doesn`t go the way of Alker from Salford.

Heard from a reliable source , he's signed at Bradford for this season

Don't say that. Not when everything is just nicely falling into place. Plus he's crap anyway. Nothing but a thug. Rather he was lost to the game completely now and hopefully on a personal side doesn't cause any trouble.

I hope he hasn't signed for Bradford, I think it would upset the dynamic Kear is developing. But I don't know where you get the thug accusation from. As much as Bailey or opposition fans might like to pretend he very rarely did anything that hurt or scared opposition players. There have been far, far worse.

True. He usually did a fair job at evading those out to deliberately harm him too.

I hope he hasn't either. Hmm, alleged drug user (have to put alleged these days), constantly looks for fights in a game and more often than not gets shown up (see Radford, Bateman), always tries to fight people smaller (again see Bateman, and when he realised Radford was restrained he tried to hit him, also tried to headbutt Long at the same time), From Queens RL, which anyone who knows amateur RL knows exactly what they are like.

From a huge RL perspective it is such a shame to see a player like this. From a young age he could have been one of the most feared props. Instead just a thuggish person. If he had gone down the Peacock route. Just got his head down, worked hard, cut all the pointless dirty tactics and only fought when he absolutely needed too he would have gained a lot more respect in the game and could have been a world beater.

There are worse? Who do you have in mind? I'd put Hock up there but in all fairness to him over the past few years (since his ban) he has cleaned up and just focused on his rugby. And personally I think Wigan and Leigh have done well with him in terms of saying if you aren't clean you are out that's it.

Pantomime villain is probably more apt than thug.