The Cas fans might contradict me, but I'm sure he said his move to them was his last and best chance at playing at a level he thought his talent and his achievements merited.

Mind you the 50mph contraflow will give him a good excuse for the first half a dozen times he's late for training or better still that he can't be d to turn up.

Ha you might be right but I have the feeling he will at least be better than Asotasi!

Presumably this is why we all dislike JJB as well, oh hang on....

Well i'm happy with him, I keep saying he would be a bargain buy and now something I've wanted has finally happened. I'm not a fan of him personally as I think he's a dick, but he adds some oomph and he gets under players skin and forces errors. I'm made up we have him but I hope he isn't the same old penalty giver he is known for.

Let's hope that with his new club he can keep out of jail.

Played 16 forgettable minutes for us. Less than Mason. And you've taken the smiler Cox off us. Good luck with that.

He's crap. Can't see what he's going to add at all.

Well that makes two of us up to now.

Would've rather we tried to tempt Morley into one last year and even that would be desperation. I can't say I'm exactly happy with this signing but I suppose he's only back up and there doesn't appear to be a lot else out there (don't think any other names have been thrown out there in this thread anyway). As long as Bailey and Cox don't get game time ahead of Ben Evans, Philbin, George King etc I can just about accept it. Just.

Make that 3. It's nice to sign a prop that isn't
a, coming over with known serious injuries or health issues
b, making noises about not wanting to be here/ stay at hometown club.

Look this guy is no angel, knows he has been a muppet and this is last chance saloon. Earlier poster said he isn't likely to start every game.

The reactions on here are SERIOUSLY ott guys. Move on its happening.

You may want to read the thread on the Leeds board

Go on enlighten me

I'm happy with him. We know what he's like and no one will boss us around next season. If TS can get him to channel his aggression in the right direction he'll be a real asset. Also 14 pages in a day and threads on other sites show that he has generated interest and might bring a few punters in.

He may not have health issues, but he definitely has ISSUES.

Nobody will boss us around next season, because we have signed this waste of space???

If the going gets tough you wont see this t0sser around. He only picks on the smallest player the opposition has.

I have been supporting us for over 50 years and this is definitely the most disappointing signing, in my eyes, we have ever made. I wouldn't rate him good enough for the Championship.

Seriously? How about Paul Hulme? Or Kevin Crouthers? Need I carry on?

I am in the positive camp about this one unless he doesn't put the graft in. If he does I will support him.

I remember a few years ago Bailey nearly took the head of one of our younger smaller players then Micheal Korkidas put a massive hit on him and he wasn't seen for the rest of the match. The fact that Micheal Korkidas put him in a shell sums Bailey up - he's arguably the biggest coward in RL fact.

Were people bothered when Ashton Sims put a cheap shot on George Williams at the HJ earlier this year?

I appreciate Sims is capable of backing it up when the big boys come calling, but we've got plenty of players who are considered cheap shot artists, Westwood being another.

Let's not get bent out of shape too much over a player that if our top 5 props stay healthy, will probably not get much game time.

Have we ever seen any evidence of Sims mixing it like that ?

#### me. We've now sunk to a level lower than whale pooh.

Ryan ####ing Bailey! Has Smith taken leave of his senses? A player who was never the best, who Leeds decided was surplus to requirements, as have HKR and Cas, but we "take a punt" on. Add to this, we've got others with disciplinary/personal issues. Is Smith the new Brendan Rodgers re Balotelli "I can cure him". Gawd 'elp us.

I have two memories of this twunt.
1) As mentioned by Tiz Lad earlier. Picking on the smallest man in the opposition side, in a game were his team were roundly stuffed, on the 79:50 mark.

2) Away at Stains, about 6 or 7 years ago. There's a bit of a skirmish, and RB realises he's just tangled with James Graham. Graham snarls, and tells RB how he's going to relocate his head to his anus. Immediately, RB deposits his breakfast into the gusset of his shorts, and then spends the net two minutes impersonating Benny Hill, running around Knowsley Road, trying to get away from Graham, until Leeds sub him.
ENFORCER? Charles Hawtrey would do a better job.

From the start of Smith's reign, 6 years ago, we had a side of stars/great SL standard players. Reaching finals and winning them. Topping the league, and playing exhilarating RL.
Now we've got Chris Hill, an ex MoS and the casts of Casualty and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

I've not been so hacked off with a signing, since we signed a lanky, waste of space Widnesian in the mid 90's.

It's gonna be a long season, lads.

When Sims is challenged he stands up to it, when one of his team mates is challenged he steps up more so, so yes.

Popular fantasy amongst opposition fans that they had a player give Bailey what for when in reality it never happened. Radford punched him when Bailey was on the floor unable to defend himself and Graham ran in 3rd man after Bailey tough but legal hit on Fa'asivalu. Because he was the pantomime villain I think some fans want to convince themselves that one of their guys put him in his place whenever they played.

You wanted props , you got props , in Tony we trust unless anyone here fancies the job ??

Couldn't be more wrong about the incident. He does exactly what people complain he doesn't do and steps up and delivers a big hit on Saints' biggest guy in Fa'asavlau who gets sat on his backside and knocked out. Graham wets his pants incorrectly thinking it was with the elbow when it was actually with the shoulder. Next chance Bailey has he actually does that "Benny Hill" run sideways so he can go towards Graham, had he ran straight Graham would've been two defenders to the left away. Only time Graham got him is when two defenders held him up and Graham ran in third man and smashed into his ribs. Bailey just popped right back up as if nothing happened.

In Smith we rust