Foxtel replayed our game from last season vs Gold Coast this morning. I had completely forgotten how good Bail was early in the year before injury. Great mix of hardness, speed and skill and I think will be well suited to the Neeld game plan. Will be interested to see how he goes.

Edited February 25, 201214 yr by big_red_fire_engine

Extremely underrated. One of my favourites. Has speed, poise & foot skills are excellent. Hope he is injury free this year, seems like he's had a very good pre season. Check out his stats from early 2011-very suprising. Could be a top mid if fit.

Was great when he finally came on. Really helped us win the last half against Brisbane, along with Howe and Grimes.

Great speed and agility. Needs to polish off his kicking and he can be anything. A real find!

Bail, Howe and Blease will be important pushing through our midfield as our main mids are very one paced.

The new James Mcdonald if you ask me!

Has a similar build and game.Rarely stuffs it up and is consistant with his game.

I too am a great fan of this bloke and see him as similar to Paul Williams from Collingwood/Sydney Swans. Hard as nails, poise, very quick but have to disagree with Hells Gates - his kicking is his downfall, especially at the end of one of his blistering runs. In the intra club he put three out of bounds on the full, and two of these were not under pressure. If he gets his kicking skills improved he will be an invaluable asset.

Other than injury there is nothing to stop this bloke becoming a very good midfielder, has all of the attributes and few weaknesses. need to keep this guy on the park, very important player going forward.

Edited April 29, 201213 yr by dandeeman

this guy is by far the most under-rated MFC player, i would love to see him play in the forward line as a small forward. Can get a few goals, good defensive pressure and works hard.

I dont think his skills are even as bad as what alot of people make them out to be.

I still don't quite understand his role at the moment. The structure seems to have him start as CHF in the sense of position on the ground. Is he a defensive forward? Or a small crumbing forward? Or has Neeld basically said, there's no room in my team for someone who is just a defensive forward or just a crumbing forward - you'll have to be both? In which case, maybe that's what Bail is doing and doing it pretty well. His tackling against St Kilda was ferocious, although he gave away a couple of frees for hanging on too long and he also kicked two goals.

In short, though, I'm a fan.

Has had a far from inspiring start to 2012 in my opinion. His best game for the year was last week, and even that wasn't too great (I appreciate he isn't on his own there).

I have absolutely no idea what his best position is, as at the moment, I have very little confidence in him being in our best 22.

Has been under-done due to an interrupted start and an injury disrupted 2011and will improve.

has endurance

has speed

has a solid body

has courage

can find the footy

is good overhead

has good skills, have seen this at times in senior footy and Casey when i have watched him, will improve this given he can string some games together, along with his decision making.

Has all the attributes to be a good linking mid.

Has been under-done due to an interrupted start and an injury disrupted 2011and will improve.

has endurance

has speed

has a solid body

has courage

can find the footy

is good overhead

has good skills, have seen this at times in senior footy and Casey when i have watched him, will improve this given he can string some games together, along with his decision making.

Has all the attributes to be a good linking mid.

Has played every game this year, yet averages 12 disposals a game, which is less than Trengove (16) who I think has had an ordinary start to the year also.

I dispute the claims of good skills - I think his disposal this year has been dog ordinary.

Don't get me wrong, I like Ro, but at the moment, he is very lucky that we have no-one at Casey pushing for his spot.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/134733/default.aspx

One of our few genuine runners, can play both ends and has a bit of grit. Hope he takes the next step.

http://www.afl.com.a...33/default.aspx

The thing that amazed me most from that article is that coming in to this season he'd only played 18 senior games. Feels like he's been around more than that and in my mind I'd always treated him like a 50 gamer, but really in terms of his footy career he's still just an apprentice.

I'm a big fan of Bail, and after reading that article my liking for him has increased. He sounds like a determined guy who wants to get the best out of himself. It would be great to see him get through the season injury-free and play 20 or so games.

bang for buck at pick 60

kid dosnt seem to let anything hold him back, and thats what i like in a player. none of this "il skirt around the outside in case the ball magically comes to me so i can get a posession" crap

Is it an honour to win the Grogan medal?

One of my favourite players, this after seeing him in the VFL and thinking he would really struggle. He loves the open space of the MCG and thrives on it.

Is it an honour to win the Grogan medal?

Kind of I guess? It's like an achievement award for not playing rugby.

The award ceremony would have been amazing, 7 ex Victorians and 3 confused Queenslanders in attendance.

He looks to be coming along pretty well now he is relatively injury free.

And maybe he will be someone we can thank Dean Bailey for - Mt Gravatt I think was DB's team in QFL.

Is it an honour to win the Grogan medal?

You win it for the most BOGs

I am totally blown away by the amount of positive talk regading RB this year. I'm not trying to kick the bloke in the guts, but am I the only one who beleives his form to date has been poor?

I love his attitude, and his running ability, and he's not a bad looking bloke, but what are we judging here, a popularity contest or what we see on the footy field?

I am totally blown away by the amount of positive talk regading RB this year. I'm not trying to kick the bloke in the guts, but am I the only one who beleives his form to date has been poor?

I love his attitude, and his running ability, and he's not a bad looking bloke, but what are we judging here, a popularity contest or what we see on the footy field?

I agree with you that his form so far this season has not been as good as we have seen from him in the past. But he has been improving with each game and I think he will continue to do so and become an important player for us.