Re: Bailey-Radford...set aside your prejudices? : Sun Sep 05, 2010 1:51 pm  

For those claiming racism, last season Hull FC fans voted Mark Calderwood for our player of the season. Last time I checked, he's black too.

I'd hope that the headbutt attempt gets noticed when the dc review the game footage.

Re: Bailey-Radford...set aside your prejudices? : Sun Sep 05, 2010 5:59 pm  

Radford should have been sent to the bin and so should Bailey.

This is Rugby League not tiddlywinks, a bit of biff spices the game up, after their ten mins were up seeing them go at each other for the rest of the game would have been worth the ticket price alone.

On a side note Bailey deserved it, he shouldn't have been elbowing Radford plus he is a class 1 gobsh1te.

Re: Bailey-Radford...set aside your prejudices? : Sun Sep 05, 2010 6:23 pm  

Honestly, how can people actually compare Bailey hitting Radford on the top of his head with the inside of his arm to Radford getting up and winging him 4 times as he laid on the floor?!
If every player reacted like that to a tackled player tried to shake out of the tackle, there would be 100 fights a game!
Also most people seem to be forgetting that as Radford was sent off he stayed on the pitch offering Bailey out!
Bailey should have probably been binned for trying to continue the fight as well but saying Radford's wasn't a red card is preposterous!

Re: Bailey-Radford...set aside your prejudices? : Sun Sep 05, 2010 6:27 pm  

Bailey = foul play = penalty
Radford = violent conduct = off

simples

Re: Bailey-Radford...set aside your prejudices? : Sun Sep 05, 2010 6:31 pm  

EL CAMO wrote:

Honestly, how can people actually compare Bailey hitting Radford on the top of his head with the inside of his arm to Radford getting up and winging him 4 times as he laid on the floor?!
If every player reacted like that to a tackled player tried to shake out of the tackle, there would be 100 fights a game!
Also most people seem to be forgetting that as Radford was sent off he stayed on the pitch offering Bailey out!
Bailey should have probably been binned for trying to continue the fight as well but saying Radford's wasn't a red card is preposterous!

Since when has elbowing somebody in the head been an acceptable response to being tackled ?

It wasn't the ' inside of his arm ' , it was his elbow

Re: Bailey-Radford...set aside your prejudices? : Sun Sep 05, 2010 6:40 pm  

Starbug wrote:

Since when has elbowing somebody in the head been an acceptable response to being tackled ?

It wasn't the ' inside of his arm ' , it was his elbow

It wasn't an elbow to the head. It was a cuffing to the elbow's punch.
Every player in the league flaps about similarly to Bailey did, it doesn't give the player tackling them the right to get up and lay in to them as they lay defenceless on the floor!

Re: Bailey-Radford...set aside your prejudices? : Sun Sep 05, 2010 6:43 pm  

TonyGee wrote:

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.

Spot on post! Radford was quite rightly sent off, i mean if you don't think that was a sending off, what exactly have you got to do?
Having said that, i enjoyed every bit of seeing somebody smacking the hell out of bailey. Hopefully we'll seem him do the same to Cockayne next week.

Re: Bailey-Radford...set aside your prejudices? : Sun Sep 05, 2010 6:53 pm  

Starbug wrote:

Since when has elbowing somebody in the head been an acceptable response to being tackled ?

It wasn't the ' inside of his arm ' , it was his elbow

Elbowing is obviously part of the game now, like when Tomkins dropped on Myler with the elbow ages after Myler scored.

Re: Bailey-Radford...set aside your prejudices? : Sun Sep 05, 2010 6:59 pm  

Who are ya!! wrote:

Elbowing is obviously part of the game now, like when Tomkins dropped on Myler with the elbow ages after Myler scored.

Then he should have been punished for it

Re: Bailey-Radford...set aside your prejudices? : Sun Sep 05, 2010 7:28 pm  

EL CAMO wrote:

Honestly, how can people actually compare Bailey hitting Radford on the top of his head with the inside of his arm to Radford getting up and winging him 4 times as he laid on the floor?!
If every player reacted like that to a tackled player tried to shake out of the tackle, there would be 100 fights a game!
Also most people seem to be forgetting that as Radford was sent off he stayed on the pitch offering Bailey out!
Bailey should have probably been binned for trying to continue the fight as well but saying Radford's wasn't a red card is preposterous!

Would bet £10 that Bailey started gobbing off as soon as there was space betweem him and Radford, and he knew that nothing could happen in retaliation.