Yes it's my opinion, but when you consider that SL clubs of today are trying to portray themselves as centres of the local community then retaining a player who was convicted of assault whilst in said community it took a lot for the club to stand behind him. And yes I know he was repentant and that probably helped him stay at the club.




I'm not a hero, I just have respect for my team mates and the people arround me.

Same with you academy statement earlier as well. Leeds gel the best from the local area with international super stars (waits for comments like Ali isn’t that good to be an international superstar, Scott Donald HAHAH international superstar? etc) that has worked well for us over the last decade.

Some people totally miss the point of rugby league sometimes. Its all about a game of rugby league and a time to catch up with friends or family or both. Some like to have a drink and a burger with that. Everything else you get from the game is a bonus and we all get our chance with them bonuses in all walks of life whatever the pastime is.

Ricky Bibey was good enough to be in that team whoever they was. Your wrong this is the X Factor where we eliminate people who aren’t good enough to be in the final. These people where eliminated in the Grand Final (saints) which was our X Factor Semis. Shame we couldn’t win in the best of world X Factor final.

Well done for demonstrating your complete lack of knowledge.

Burgess is a million miles behind Bailey. Poor hands, poor stamina and poor defence. bags of potential and bags of time to put that right but there's a reason the coaching staff use him so sparingly and Bailey so regularly.

As the coaching staff (and bailey) have won 3 of the last 5 GF's I'll bow to their knowledge rather than an Internet no mark with no clue.

Oh may I also add that I would rather have Ryan Bailey in this side than any other Prop forward in the world. He’s a Leeds lad living the dream and as a Leeds lad myself I couldn’t ask for better from the Rhinos choosing Bailey over whoever else we could have world over.

Typos corrected

BTW, did I mention you?

As I said he's more profressional and a long term better prospect...

I've no idea if he's more professional. If being more professional means he's unable to catch the ball, play for spells beyond 15 minutes and have concrete feet when defending then I agree.

He is a great long term prospect, no doubt, but at the moment is vastly inferior to Bailey.

Why do you think the coaching staff use him so sparingly and Bailey so much? Think about it.

Seem to score a couple of important tries last year, which bailey has yet to do...concrete feet, I'd say a decent turn of pace for a big guy...

Long term, short term.

Its best if you live on the now term because by short term and long term your only wishing time and your life away. Burgess for me is good now along with Watkins. They wouldn’t be on the field otherwise. Don’t neglect the present to the uncertainness of the future because you’ll always watch a neglectful performance week in week out if you always though of the future of certain individuals.

It aint all about tries. Lets forget Bailey's pass which resulted in Watkins' try last week huh??

I suggest you log off, send the admins an email to delete your account and never register again for that comment.

Long term, short term, kev keegans perm...the burgess family seem to produce good RL players....

Still hiding behind the alias then?

Not going to post it under your real username you f**** embarrassment?