Ryan Bailey

[portsmouth_viking]

I know its been said before and probably on various forums but he has got to be the dirtiest player in our league??

His flop/punch on Chris Riley(?) in the last 10 seconds of the Final today was disgusting! He tends to get a way with throwing punches, knees, headbutts, anything goes and although players do seem to stand up to him, somebody somewhere seriously needs to just put him straight.

The man is a plank!

[Vikings forever]

I know its been said before and probably on various forums but he has got to be the dirtiest player in our league??

His flop/punch on Chris Riley(?) in the last 10 seconds of the Final today was disgusting! He tends to get a way with throwing punches, knees, headbutts, anything goes and although players do seem to stand up to him, somebody somewhere seriously needs to just put him straight.

The man is a plank!

Wrong. The man is a THUG !!

[kyosei]

If he'd just put the ball down instead of trying to smash Mathers out of the way it might have been a different game.

[Sandgroper]

If he'd just put the ball down instead of trying to smash Mathers out of the way it might have been a different game.

Exactly right - he can only see 'smash em'. A shade to the right and Mathers would have gone over his back, and his last tackle swipe was pathetic.  The game doesn't need plant pots like him.

[Peter]

Exactly right - he can only see 'smash em'. A shade to the right and Mathers would have gone over his back, and his last tackle swipe was pathetic.  The game doesn't need plant pots like him.

He needs a change of code. Would do well in RU.

[Sunny]

He needs a change of code. Would do well in RU.

He would soon get sorted out there! At the bottom of a ruck or buckled in a scrum!

Either way, he wouldn't last half a game, Peter.

[Peter]

He would soon get sorted out there! At the bottom of a ruck or buckled in a scrum!

Either way, he wouldn't last half a game, Peter.

I think he would avoid the hard work like the ruck and mauls, unless he was on top!

[Rickp]

I didn't know there was such a thing as hard work in Union. You are joking Peter & Sunny aren't you. Especially the bit about them sorting him out . I think Bailey would terrorise every RU player that came within 20 yards of him. There's no such thing as hard man in RU they all wear shorts with pockets in to start with. The only thing that toughens up a RU player is when he switches codes. So Boys get real & behave yourselves.
Oh BTW Bailey is a thug & bully a dirty bounty, you name it he's just a nasty piece of work.

[newsboy]

Jonathan Davies made me laughe earlier in the game when Bailey pushed his head into a Warrington player, after a play the ball under his own posts. JD said in a rather sneering tone, "Ryan Bailey, tsch." He then put on his professional commentators voice and qualified his sneer, by saying something like, "Sometimes Bailey is too enthusiastic. He would be better putting his energies and efforts into taking Leeds forward, rather than moving forward with his head," Shrewd man is JD.

[Sandgroper]

Nice to see JD with the RU shackles off!!! He has to wathch what he says when he's with Guscott because he doesn't know what JD's talking about.

[Peter]

I didn't know there was such a thing as hard work in Union. You are joking Peter & Sunny aren't you. Especially the bit about them sorting him out . I think Bailey would terrorise every RU player that came within 20 yards of him. There's no such thing as hard man in RU they all wear shorts with pockets in to start with. The only thing that toughens up a RU player is when he switches codes. So Boys get real & behave yourselves.
Oh BTW Bailey is a thug & bully a dirty bounty, you name it he's just a nasty piece of work.

Remember Fran Cotton? He got a 6 month ban for sorting out a South African. The bad boys have just got a bit more clever.

[Sandgroper]

IIRC Ray French said in one of his books that you were much more likely to get seriously hurt in Union because their attempts at 'hard man' stuff were amateur.  Hi view was that if a League team decided to put you out of play it would be done efficiently and cleanly, with no real harm done! 

That was yesterday of course!

[Peter]

IIRC Ray French said in one of his books that you were much more likely to get seriously hurt in Union because their attempts at 'hard man' stuff were amateur.  Hi view was that if a League team decided to put you out of play it would be done efficiently and cleanly, with no real harm done! 

That was yesterday of course!

Yes. If you are going to get sent off, make sure the other so and so gets carried off.

[mick george]

Lots of hard men over the years played Union. Micky skinner comes to mind  he was hard a nails

[Peter]

Lots of hard men over the years played Union. Micky skinner comes to mind  he was hard a nails

And Jim Mills wasn't a shrinking violet, either.