Bailey had potential but has never reached it. For years he's been no 3 or 4 in the pecking order of Leeds props and the disappointing thing about that is that he keeps getting overtaken. Burgess, for example, has surpassed him over the last couple of years. With Peacock and Burgess out in the cup final, Leeds really needed him to stand up and say "I can be the top guy" and take the game to Morley and Carvell but he didn't. At this stage of his career, I don't think he ever will. All of which isn't to say that he's a bad player - he's just never made the step up to top player.

Do Leeds fans like him though? I'd love to see Stu Dickens of Featherstone given a chance in SL, I rate him higher than Bailey.

Certainly is entertaining, especially when you look back to see where the tag TMFMISL came from - it was a joke between two posters, its now developed to legend status on ss.com and it now niggles posters from other clubs in the same way that Bailey niggles on the field, non-one could have written that script

They are embarassing stats.



Just think, the Leeds fans think hes good enough for England. So maybe Bryn should get the nod too

This thread again?



He is a "nobody likes me and i dont care" character. A pantomine villain and basically just a bully like people have said. I saw Carvell square up to him in the CC Final and he just pawed him away, if it had been a winger or a centre like Atkins then i think he would have taken him on.



Can we leave him alone now? It's getting very boring and laughable.

If he hadn't of tried to be such a hardman at Wembley and bulldoze Mathers out the way, and gone low instead, he would have scored the first try!!

He's a prop, not a hooker.

Stick him under a washing line then , all he's fit for

So he doesn't know how to dive then? He's worse than I thought!

dickens played half a season of SL with salford in their return to SL (can't remember which of the 3 it was) season, and slinked off back to fev with no fanfare.

What difference does that make? Are you saying that because hes a prop he can not go low to score a try?





Bailey seen it was Mathers and thought he'd be able to knock him out the way and he failed miserable. To be honest, he could have just run on a slight angle and Mathers wouldn't have been able to get under the ball. Or as others have said, if he goes low theres no way Mathers is stopping him.

Do you see many props ducking to get over the line?



Do you see them either being short or held up 9 times out of 10?