After Great Britain's 1990 Wembley win, I took a couple of mates to a boozer near a Hotel I'd stayed in four years earlier and who should be in there, but Graeme Lowe. The former Kiwi coach noticed our rugby shirts, bought the round and chatted to us about the previous days game - top bloke I thought!

I met Dave Furner though Work when he was with Wigan(or at the time it could have been Leeds) and he was a gem of a bloke.

Matt King,chatting to him last week in the Lowry outlet mall,





really lovely man

Most of the aussies last year at the four nations ,especially pietro civenoseva?sp... sam thaiday and cooper cronk were fab,nathan hindmarsh gave his medal to a young lad also

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He was on the same flight back as me from the France-England game last year and was happy to talk about his team at Leigh, what he thought of the French team (and particularly Seb Martins with him being an ex-Leigh player) and even went out of his way when landing at Liverpool to wish us luck for our game at home to Gateshead later that day (sadly it didn't work as we were terrible and ended up getting tonked

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Was he really Mrs Farrell?

All seriousness he was a top bloke. Micky Forshaw was another good bloke as was Terry O'Connor.

Biggest t*ts I remember calling into my workplace(a sportswear firm) were Lee Briers and at the time Leigh coach Darren Abram(seemed a proper arrogant pillock tbh).

After Quins' home games the players of both sides, as well as the referees, walk across the pitch and mingle with waiting fans. I have yet to witness anyone acting arrogantly and ignoring the fans.

Once when I was wearing my Bulls shirt (although Bulls weren't the visitors), a very proud Henry and Robbie Paul's mother introduced herself to me and was a lovely lady.

That generally forms the impression most people have of him, yes

Not just me then!

He'd swan into the place like he was your boss and just demand you get him things.

Biggest idiot I've ever encountered in a rugby league context was David Solomona during the GB v NZ test at Knowsley Road about 4 years ago.

He'd just come off after a stint, and as he sat down on the bench, a couple of teenage girls a few steps away from the bench started whooping and hollering their support, while some bloke further back shouted 'tit' (or something to that effect).

Solomona immediately turned on the two teenage girls and screamed "come here and say that to my face then, you b******". They were petrified, as you might imagine!