You're asking a Saints fan that?

What tosh.

Oh you!

Yeah, he's just a thug isn't he?

It's amazing that consecutive club coaches have been completely oblivious to his total lack of any rugby league ability all these years and continuted to select him.

But no, you know best. Really you do.

Is the other thread full? Classic Bailey!

A thug? He's never tried to bite someone's ear off, now that is thuggish behaviour

He's a cheap shot thug who goes after players smaller than him, went after Matty Wildie season before last. Got shown up for what he is by Justin Poore on boxing day

Yep.


I haven't commented on his rugby league ability.

Just to reiterate as a Dragons fan I think it made no difference to the result and the better side won...


...but keep on with the character assassination if you wish

Justine poore got sent off iirc, but of course he's not a thug is he but bailey is?

Why do you single out Bailey?

To be fair, he makes it so easy for people to have a go at him. He's the kind of player you can only like if he plays for your team, as you will see the good he does when he isn't falling foul of the referee's whistle.

For the rest of us, he's just a plain thug.

He's not really a thug. He's just a pantomime villain.

He picks on little guys and the crowd all boo him but I've never seen him actually hurt someone like a Newton, Morley, Cassidy type incident.

4 match ban apprantly.

Well it turns out the Leeds fans had a point, if the ref had done the right thing and sent him off for the first offense we would have only picked up a two match ban.

Because Bailey is a non stop shoitehouse with virtually no rugby skills.

Even past thugs like Les Boyd were very good players when they wanted to be.

In fact, why the hell Boyd resorted to his 'ugly side' I cannot comprehend.

On his day he was outstanding, but he will forever be remembered as being one of, if not THE 'dirtiest player' ever to have pulled on a rugby jersey.

not popular or respected amongst his peers, which speaks volumes.

Yet has been consistantly picked by 4 different coaches and played al part in the most succesful Leeds side ever, I'll take there judgement over hyperbolic keyboard warriors any day of the week.

No qualms with the ban but opposition fans are so blinded by something it's quite funny.

I wonder what it could be.

Oh and I think (I could be wrong) that is is baileys second red card in a ten year career, hardly the stuff of a thug

I have seen bailey but Morley on his and hurt him. After a bit of handbags on Thursday who was the player who put his hand up to run the ball into 3 forwards from Bradford scroots was one of them hardly a small lad. Another urban myth that he only picks on small people

Who has managed to convince four separate Leeds coaches that he's worth keeping in the side every week. Go figure.

Still, the keyboard coaches know best.

He brings excitement to the game,p!sses off opposing fans,winds up the other team and generally is a good egg.More of the same please!

Dont necessarily think he's a good player - the coaches pick him cos he winds the opposition players/fans and coaches up. he's the pantomime villain and probably gets more attention because of this rather than his talent.

So 3 consecutive championship winning coaches have all picked bailey cos he's a wind up merchant? Really you believe that? Really?

Indeed.

Im probably in the minority in not being a Leeds supporter by any stretch of the imagination yet I can see how effective Ryan Bailey is to the Leeds pack (Catalan performance to one side here).

He is a very tough player who adds some much needed aggression to the Leeds side and I think he compliments players such as Kyle Leuluai who just seem to go about their business without the drama.

Although he is effective I would like to see him use his head a bit more at times because there were times in the Catalan game for instance when he just seemed to loose it completely much to the benefit of the opposition and not to his team mates.

Effective player but just needs to be that bit smarter.