Apparently this is why Bailey is a perfect metaphor for the Leeds club in general. How can you be over-rated after sending the opposition home with their tails between their legs from Old Trafford for the past three seasons. Deary me, will the Giro scrounging idiots (no not you Damo

) never see sense?

Did you see the one about Lee Smith, average player who got lucky with a punt that turned into a 40-20 in a grand final once.

I'll help you out - he was running cross field getting mullered, then hiding in the centres whilst James Graham was busy winning the game.

what bailey actually does is his role in a 17 man sport very well that is why leeds have been the force for the last few years and other clubs and fans need to look at leeds and understand to win the bigger things in life you need 17 players doing there job well and not just a few..

yes people argue bailey is not a power forward but that is not his game that is down to peacock and kylie whos game it is,baileys is more defensive and most of the time leads the forwards in tackles..

bailey is also a wind up player he is a sort of player who does niggle and says things and makes you snap and he just looks at you and smiles

Somebody has got to take you up on that challange?

And what did it have to do with Graham? He was frothing at the mouth.

I remember Graham's input.

Third man in wasn't he?

OOOoooooh brave.



For further reading of Ryan Bailey please see last years GF performance. Classic stuff.

Yet again what was Mr Graham's input?

An attempted cheap shot on the last play from the penalty tap. He stood 5m offisde and went looking for TMFMISL. No problem for him, he bounced him off and as usual wore a huge grin and smile.

Sucked in yet again.

There you go, another example of Baileys genius, he got you all rattled again. Mary ran it in towards Bailey and Bails had him nicely lined up. Mary got sat on his backside and walked off with a runny nose



There after FGB wasted so much energy trying to emulate Baileys shot and quite frankly failed terribly and made a right fooking fool of himself.

People do go on saying that Bailey is a chicken and that he will pick a fight then back down. People actually use this against him but surely you could say he is a better professional as he resists the need to get into a scrap. As someone stated he is used to wind the opposition up and then doesn't retaliate thus can get the opposition to concede penalties. Suits me although I do wish he would run straight at the line without his little stop start motion

He kicks badgers

In his early Leeds career I remember him been a real hot head, fighting all the time and had bad discipline. But after his little incident with Walker he came back a much calmer player with much better discipline.

Look who Bailey has got on his cv : Morley, Marysatontheloo and Crabtree. 3 tough props that Bailey has owned.

Saints appear to be obsessed with the bloke;

Tony P is going to set fire to Ryan Bailey is what I get from that picture. Would be controversial but no doubt make for good TV and an increased Sky deal through the publicity the burning would create.

Have you not got a smaller picture? that ones a bit big for me too read.

saturdays part in the burrow/luaki mismatch sort of summed up baileys wind up capabilities
he committed the foul which drew the slap from luaki but if burrow hadnt reacted then leeds would have got the penalty
because of the spat luaki was targeted in every tackle and by a hostile leeds end and was playing as a winger when hall ran past him for his fourth try

as in boxing losing your head can be very costly and bailey is perfect at goading other players so they make mistakes, if on friday someone else decides to get involved like graham was then he will have done his job
while he's attracting 4-5 players to the tackle leeds have the know how and speed to exploit the gaps left

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.