Re: RYAN BAILEY : Mon Feb 23, 2009 1:40 pm  

thebloodbath wrote:

So the average, is well under one penalty a game. It's this kind of opinion I'm fighting against. The ill-informed and vastly mis-judged.

That was my first job when I got back here after lunch. Thanks for doing the job for me.

Re: RYAN BAILEY : Mon Feb 23, 2009 1:41 pm  

rhinoms wrote:

Imho he is consistent in that he does the hard graft and attracts penalties and attention from the opposition and whilst he stood out on friday his work often gets over-shadowed by the headlines the other team members make i.e another 60 minute stint by peacock,or brilliant tries from donald,webb,burrow or mcguire.
How much did people recognise jjb's efforts early on in his career??
There's loads of people who still think that sinfield is only a kicker.
Bailey does and always has contributed to the team maybe not always worthy of headlines or M.O.M awards and many times not as explosive as friday but he does a job for the team and i'd rather have him in the 17 than not.

We agree on something.

: Mon Feb 23, 2009 1:44 pm  

tvoc wrote:

Unless game time in minutes is recorded it's still a bit Mystic Meg amongst the prop forwards, some of who will spend anywhere between 2 and 3 times the length of time on the park as others in a average appearance.

I wondered when you'd pop up on this thread!!!

Sorry for stepping on your toes, I understand your vulnerability.

Joking aside, your 100% correct to mention game time, I thought of it but didn't want to undermine my own argument! But seeing as I don't have access to that info, mine will have to do for now. I still think it holds up, we have records of Baileys penalties in full seasons and I feel I can make assumptions on these. I'm hardly making wild generalisations. But I'll leave this end to you, I feel very uncomfortable making well structured debate.

Re: RYAN BAILEY : Mon Feb 23, 2009 1:45 pm  

King Monkey wrote:

That was my first job when I got back here after lunch. Thanks for doing the job for me.

It took me a while.

Re: RYAN BAILEY : Mon Feb 23, 2009 1:45 pm  

King Monkey wrote:

We agree on something.

: Mon Feb 23, 2009 1:53 pm  

thebloodbath wrote:

But I'll leave this end to you, I feel very uncomfortable making well structured debate.

No need, the minutia of 'in game' stats holds only a passing interest for me.

Re: RYAN BAILEY : Mon Feb 23, 2009 1:53 pm  

rhinoms wrote:

:shock:

Well it had to come sooner or later didn't it.

: Mon Feb 23, 2009 2:13 pm  

Dave Heron's Moustache wrote:

I've always liked him for one reason in particular - opposing fans hate him. I can only assume then that they dislike seeing him in a Leeds shirt. Maybe opposing fans are subconciously more perceptive than the Leeds fans who constantly bag him?

I was at a party Saturday night and got talking to a bloke I know in passing who is a Wakefield fan. I asked him if he'd been to Headingley the other week. He then went into a rant for 30 mins about how Bailey should've been sent off against Wakey, about how Atkins chinned him and about how happy he was to see bailey get knocked out Friday. I listened politely.

Anyway, once his rant was over he asked me if I was going to see the Salford game on Sunday. To which I pointed out, I was a Leeds fan, not a Wakefield fan and he's been talking poop the last 30 mins.

No doubt about it, having Bailey in the team is worth it if only to get oppo. fekkwitts frothing at the mouth about him.[/i]

: Mon Feb 23, 2009 2:17 pm  

Bailey is rarely an eye-catching prop but he does do the unfashionable work (and alot of it) very well. I'd still like to see abit more out of him going forward (like friday night), but he's more than worth a place in the team.

: Mon Feb 23, 2009 2:18 pm  

G1 wrote:

I was at a party Saturday night and got talking to a bloke I know in passing who is a Wakefield fan. I asked him if he'd been to Headingley the other week. He then went into a rant for 30 mins about how Bailey should've been sent off against Wakey, about how Atkins chinned him and about how happy he was to see bailey get knocked out Friday. I listened politely.

Anyway, once his rant was over he asked me if I was going to see the Salford game on Sunday. To which I pointed out, I was a Leeds fan, not a Wakefield fan and he's been talking poop the last 30 mins.

No doubt about it, having Bailey in the team is worth it if only to get oppo. fekkwitts frothing at the mouth about him.[/i]

Thing is though Gareth, although the oppossition fekkwitts hate him, he isn't actually playing the same sort of game that made them hate him in the first place.

He is not the cheap shot merchant he is made out to be. He actually contains his aggression very well and channells it in the right areas. Infact if some of these morons took the bias away they would see that Bailey actually receives many more cheap shots (in order to wind him up) than comes close to what fans say he does. On Friday he copped two head high tackles from Fozzard in the first 10 minutes which never got a penatly.

In my opinion Bailey is not protected enough from refs, but is very quickly penalised if anything is 50/50.

But of coure like you said, it adds to the excitement at the ridiculous rage it puts oppossition fans in.