The most feared man in super league, according to the Leeds board



Would just like to get opinions because heres mine imo, i think Bailey is a bully, a windy one at that who comes in 3rd man most of the time trying to put a hit on someone, and then hardly ever takes the ball in and when he does never seems to run anywhere near the player he tryed to smash 3rd man in

As for feared men then if they had said Jamie Peacock, James Graham,Adrian Morley people who dont hide take it up time and time again then i might have believed them

Thoughts???

TBH i dont really think we have any real hard cases in Super League anymore, Morley is still capable of putting in the odd big hit but i wouldnt say anybody really fears him anymore. Peacock just loves smacking Aussies about. Graham is a workhorse without being a real enforcer.

Shrek at Hull will be decent but he wont initimidate like he once used to.

TBH agree with what you said but was stating those 3 in refrence to there always there in the thick of it in both attack and defence repeatedly taking the ball up at 1st man and also hitting hard and often 1st man in the tackle as opposed to Bailey hiding behind then coming in 3rd man

I class Bailey as a sh*thouse, i remember him trying to mix it with Sonny Bill Williams at Elland road before he sat him on his backside and after that he was as quiet as a mouse. He always seems to go hiding when the rough stuff comes out. I suppose he's more a a nuisance rather than a hard case.

yeah remember that and mathers screaming from the back
, Bailey wouldn't dare mix it with likes of SBW

Didnt Scully once show Bailey what been "hard" was all about..

He got straight back up if I can remember and as a team we went on to win the game.

I remember last season against Saints i think at Knowsley road when he clattered someone then the Saints pack went hunting after him. He didnt take the ball in for about 10 minutes then when he did he got drove back about 20 meters. He's a big lad Ryan but when the going gets tough i wouldnt want him leading my battle. Leeds should be thankful they have Peackock and Leuluai around him to save his ass.

Yep remeber that too after the trainer had come on with some toilet roll.

Ryan Bailey

2004 Super League champion
2007 Super League champion
2008 Super League champion
2009 Super League champion



I wouldn't swap him for any prop forward in the word

Not even with Rob Parker? Or Ricky Bibey? They have won medals too.

Not with Leeds though.

He got back up with Sonny Bill stood right over him with his fists clenched and like the coward that bailey is, he just kept his head down and played the ball.

Sculthorpe slapped him around a bit too. Good job Diskin was there to hold him up because Baileys legs were like Jelly.

Hardman and feared? Dont make me laugh.

Ryan had the potential to become the best prop in the world a few years back , then he started all this hard man act and he was found out , shame really

This would be the Ryan Bailey who was trying to belt Fielden when Barrie Mac was holding Fielden so he could not defend himself?

The very same one, maybe thats why he is the most feared man in super league





Big windy f00ker, 1 of the very few players i have no respect for

I've never fully got the way in which Bailey is "singled out" by supporters as the apparent epitome of everything that is wrong the the game / Leeds / props / society as a whole.

Every club has players who a capable of thuggish behaviour, far more than anything that Bailey has done.

I've seen Barrie McDermott and players of that ilk do some pretty thuggish things, not hard but thuggish, yet he was portrayed as some sort of "loveable rouge". Without looking back at the stats, I'd stick my neck out and say that Bailey has had to attend relatively few disciplinary hearings at Red Hall - if that's the measure then where's the "Terry Newton is a thug" thread? There's plenty of irony in that it's St Helens supporters that are usually the most vocal against Bailey (stemming from the hit on Fa'asavalu), clearly forgetting about the actions of a certain Sonny Nickle for example. James Graham, whilst being a very talented player, is hardly the "model professional" either and off the field, Bailey's record is certainly comparable to that belonging to a certain stand-off. That's not a defence of what Bailey does. It's pointing out that he is nowhere near this "pariah" that people make him out to be.

Bailey does what he needs to do in the Leeds squad. He's a bit part player who doesn't cost the club a fortune on the salary cap and comes on to do a job - one that he does fairly well. That he seems to command plenty of attention on here says more about the people who are wound up by him than Bailey himself IMO.

Its more about the way bailey plays the game, ie mouthing off sledging, then comes in 3rd man, doesn't do the hit ups of other players, just my thoughts mind you

It’s a bit of an obsession isn’t it though?

I bet you have a poster on your wall of him to throw darts at in your spare time.

LOL.

Bailey is an and a player to boot.

No just the tongan mafia

lets see were bailey goes when we play you and these are putting it about

see i came on your board offered my opinions then all you biased Leeds fans came on slagging me off telling me i know f00kall, however im pretty fair in my opinions of players and have played the game, and watched it long enough to kn ow a bully when i see one

Since you’ve played rugby league you’ll know that you need every man on the field. Sometimes you have good games and sometimes you have bad. Ryan Bailey has been pretty good this year despite his injuries including the match in the grand final.

Rugby league on the pitch is rough and tough meaning things can boil over from time to time. I wouldn’t say that he’s the most feared man in super league. That’s a campaign headed by someone whose girlfriend went out with a while ago.

Rugby league is a team game end of.

Ryan Bailey is a waste of time and money for Leeds. He genuinely contributes nothing. People say he's been part of a side thats won 3 consecutive titles, but I could have been that 17th man without Leeds losing much ground. If they had a quality young player there they would simply have found it easier to win the trophies they have.

And before someone lists the coaches that have picked him, SL coaches have very little say in player matters. If a coach comes over and Bailey is in the squad they just have to deal with it, it's not like they can release him.

Which is great news for Bailey as there are tougher team mates for him to hide behind when the going gets rougher after his cheap shots, and more talented players to win him the medals.

Nobody in this thread has accused any other Leeds player of being a talentless cheap shot artist so its hardly a club thing.