Just reading a great book' Stan the Man' about Stan Wall ,who I remember as a good referee and latterly St Helens kit man
He did say what a pleasure it was to spend time with JP,Kevin Sinfield and Robbie B at England camps. He did say the exception was( universally disliked so it seems )
Ryan Bailey who never spoke to him once. Think most folk at Leeds would be glad to see the back of him TBH

No not really.

oh I think so

you`re Nigel Farage and I claim my £10

Not suprising in the least. Bailey's a waste of space. His international career was very brief (naturally).

Fickle

Nothing at all to with the hit he put on Villa at Knowsley Rd I suppose!!

Meh

Did he try to talk to bailey himself??

dont be silly

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Bailey wasn't liked by the Saints team for his antics when Leeds denied them in a string of Grand Finals. I suspect that has more to do with it than anything. Remember Wilkin complaining about him in the press, the spats with various Saints forwards? Those were truly the classic Bailey years.

That's because he showed no class dancing round in front of them while other leeds players were huddled and sinfield was lining up the final conversion in the 2009 grand final. He has no class.

Is this true, or is it something that a Stains fan said, and has spread amongst the rest of their fans as received wisdom?

There's only one RYAN BAILEY.....he's old school prop...go out and intimidate the opposition....he'll do for me

Wilkin moaning? Well I never!

He danced in front of the Leeds fans as did other Leeds players. It was just another wilkin bitch about losing, to go with his other moans

It was on the sky coverage.

Oh well it must be true then





I have a little top tip for you.

Believe nothing to read and only half of what you see.

Isn't there already a ridiculously long thread about Ryan Bailey already? Another one would seem an extravagance.

All I saw was Bailey dancing in front of the Leeds fans, why shouldn't he?
It was far less provocative and arrogant than James Graham was the previous year. No mention of that from the whinging Saints tart in any of his post-Grand Final bitterness/excuses.

remember Wilko complaining because he could hear all the Leeds players celebrating in THEIR own dressing room.
Remember Graham taunting Leeds fans at Huddersfield in a semi final after a Saints try?
He did the same in the GF a few weeks later , but his celebrations were a bit premature

If you seriously believe Bailey intimidates the opposition you must be new to the game fella . Old school prop ? Do me a favour , cartoon panto villain of the highest order and nothing more .

There are plenty of old school enforcers who will be wetting themselves at his antics .

Funny then how the guy has over the past several years been consistently selected for a reguar first team place in the most successful ESL side in the last decade by some of the best SL coaches around.



or did I just imagine this.

We get the point, people don't like Ryan Bailey.

Funny then how whenever defending bailey the only argument people can stump up is ''but x, y and z have all selected him'', rather then reeling off a list of tangible things he actually adds to the team. I bet many people have worked under managers who favoured certain people, and you can't work out why based on their performance.

When I watch leeds games and see bailey and kirke come on and do practically nothing for 10-15 minutes and that is their sole contribution, all I can do is think of how much better we could be if we had a cuople of forwards that really ripped into the opposition for 15 mins each half giving peacock and leuluai a breather.

It's not just opposition fans that dislike bailey (mostly for the wrong reasons, alleging he's a thug), but I've come across many leeds fans that do, and they dislike him because he adds little to the team.