Re: Bailey-Radford...set aside your prejudices? : Sun Sep 05, 2010 7:31 am  

Re: Bailey-Radford...set aside your prejudices? : Sun Sep 05, 2010 7:43 am  

PAUL M wrote:

Regardless of being white, yellow, green or black Radford should never have been sent off.

I can point to numerous other punches and fights this season and no red cards.

Shocking from Ian Smith but not surprised, he's incompetent.

Correct,Peackock would have missed half the season.
As for Bailey not being In a position to defend himself,he didnt want to. He stayed on his knees until Radford had been surrounded.
He's just a gobby third man sh1thouse who happens to be black,pathetic to play the race card by the Leeds fans.

Re: Bailey-Radford...set aside your prejudices? : Sun Sep 05, 2010 7:52 am  

Radford should have been sent off, It was the correct decision.

If the two players were squaring up and punches had been thrown then the red card would not have been shown but Radford attacked a man on the floor who could not defend himself. Thats a straight red card.

But, Bailey was throwing the elbow in and knew exactly what he was doing, he has been getting away with it for years and this time he got what he had coming. When it happened i would imagine 90% of the Rugby watching public probably uttered the words " its about time ".

The ref was right, And Radford is more popular because of what he did.

Re: Bailey-Radford...set aside your prejudices? : Sun Sep 05, 2010 7:56 am  

People are missing the point here. Who cares why Radford did what he did. Ryan Bailey got what he deserved. Youd think he would have learnt after sculthorpe knocked him out that hes no hardman and should just stick to playing rugby. Instead hes carried on trying to be a hardman and found out the hard way that biff is for the hardmen, not the ryan baileys.

Re: Bailey-Radford...set aside your prejudices? : Sun Sep 05, 2010 7:58 am  

Moomin wrote:

People are missing the point here. Who cares why Radford did what he did. Ryan Bailey got what he deserved. Youd think he would have learnt after sculthorpe knocked him out that hes no hardman and should just stick to playing rugby. Instead hes carried on trying to be a hardman and found out the hard way that biff is for the hardmen, not the ryan baileys.

Nope, I would agree with that. The people who are missing the point are those that think he should not have been sent off because it was Bailey that was getting slapped.

Im pretty happy it happened, but the ref did not make a bad call sending Radford off.

Re: Bailey-Radford...set aside your prejudices? : Sun Sep 05, 2010 8:04 am  

TonyGee wrote:

Nope, I would agree with that. The people who are missing the point are those that think he should not have been sent off because it was Bailey that was getting slapped.

Im pretty happy it happened, but the ref did not make a bad call sending Radford off.

I must admit. I called Dave Lister a troll for suggesting he should have been sent off, but after mulling over it, im happy to concede I was wrong and the red card was justified. It was an attack on a grounded man and even though it was hilarious, yes, I agree, the sending off was correct.

[Wanderer]

Re: Bailey-Radford...set aside your prejudices? : Sun Sep 05, 2010 9:05 am  

Panda92 wrote:

I haven't seen a mention on anythread about how well Buderus reacted to the situation. The highlights are the video site, and I thought Buderus was very good.

By the way, now that I've seen the replay, you can clearly see Bailey going for a headbutt on long. And don't tell me it wasn't serious, watch the reply (the bobbydazzler123 video on the vid site has it at 0:37) he's clearly going right for long. That's right. 6ft4 prop bailey, goes for 5ft8 scrumhalf Long. Top stuff from the man who has never been labelled a coward.

Video on that site removed.

Re: Bailey-Radford...set aside your prejudices? : Sun Sep 05, 2010 9:44 am  

Mr. Zucchini Head wrote:

I wouldn't say Radford was cowardly, the red mist had come down and he just lost it. I also don't think the elbows from Bailey were deliberate

Yes they were.

If you watch Bailey he does that all the time but very rarely gets pinged for it.

Mr. Zucchini Head wrote:

I didn't have any arguments with the red card.

I thought Radford had more sense than that but the Leeds style of play is to rough people up slyly and get away with it. Just watch Bailey, McGuire, Sinfield and particularly Senior put cheap shots tugs and elbows in the melee of the tackle.

Mr. Zucchini Head wrote:

What did annoy me about Bailey was his ridiculous "hold me back" routine culminiting in him trying to stick his nut on Longy who wasn't looking and was trying to diffuse the situation.

It's the great "coaching" style of McClennan. Takes a good team and converts them into a team that is really on the edge of the laws of the game but no one will take the appropiate actions.

Mr. Zucchini Head wrote:

As for the race card, don't be soft.

There was nothing about that incident that was "racist".

Re: Bailey-Radford...set aside your prejudices? : Sun Sep 05, 2010 10:00 am  

pathetic attempt to justify Baileys actions. Have you not watched him play for the past few years,plenty of cheap shots,especially at the smaller guys.Last night he was elbowing Radford,he just retaliated,Bailey didnt get up and go after Radford until he was being held by team mates,typical of the bully,sorry got what was long overdue........racist NO WAY

Re: Bailey-Radford...set aside your prejudices? : Sun Sep 05, 2010 10:06 am  

Bailey is as popular as Newton and Hock. It's FA to do with race.