Played against Andy Dannatt, Tony Banham, Charlie Stone....some others but my memory fails me.

Played rugby with Billy Mallinson, Steve Dennison and John Lydiat (good lad even tho he signed for the scummers).

Been refereed by the great Fred Lindop (was still useless at stopping head high tackles).

And dare I mention.....that I put the ex England rugby union captain Billy Beaumont on his .....



And even got my refs badge alongside Phil Hogan.....

Where's my walking stick......

Played against Joel Tomkins and Chris Ashton for school who played in the same St Johns Fisher side who were unbelievable

With/Against Danny Washbrook, Karl Pryce and Tommy Lee

Played against Jonny Lomax, Owen Farrell, Stefan Marsh...played with Scott Leatherbarrow (still in Wigans reserves)...

Played for Deanery High school in Wigan, we had one of the top team in the country at the time, I'm sure I will have played against many more but just didn't realise who they were at the time.

Played against him when he played for shire horse, hard to put down

Played against Dave Hostle?...ex dobbins player,for Abbey against Wolds.....nearly took my head off after i smacked him in a 3-man tackle.

Two entries from our family.

My Dad played in a trial match for Hull in the 1950's and scored a try from a Colin Hutton pass.

Slightly different, but I set up Rugby Raiders in the RL Conference in 2004, our first game was played at Rugby School. I got onto Red Hall and asked if we could have Russell Smith to referee it. A week later they came back and said that he'd love to and they'd given him a Friday night game that week so that he would be free to come down to Rugby on the Saturday.

Russell is an absolute top bloke and a rugby league nut.







He'd refereed the Anztec Test the week before in NZ, did Hudds v Hull on the Friday night and travelled down to Rugby at his own expense on the Saturday. He was really happy to be asked and saw it as a historic venue to add to his games at Wembley, Old Trafford and the Internationals.

I had a good chat to him about the Hull match the night before. Hull had won at Hudds 20-0 and our first try looked forward. I mentioned this to him and Russell just said that he couldn't see it at the time and therefore looked at his touchjudge who said it was OK and awarded the try. He said he had watched the game back on Sky at midnight (he always reviewed his performances) and thought it was ok. He said Stevo was spouting the Momentum Rule, and pointed out that Stevo didn't actually know the rule properly. He also said that all referee's are reviewed each week and have to answer to any bad decisions made.

After the game, Russell stayed over with his wife and they both went out with the Rugby Raiders team around Rugby that night.

remember that game, i got a try saver in on sodje - nice bloke btw, got dumped by a dubious hit by broadbent. we were beating them at halftime too

Many years ago I played the 11 a side game for the Civil Service. We used to have our indoor training sessions at the old Hull Boys Club in Ropery Street and on many occasions Albert Tripp would come and run our sessions for us. Although he had retired from playing he was still super fit and really put us through it. I'm still aching now and I'm turned 70.

A non-playing example, but Steve Portz used to run our Youth Club. Top Bloke!

Read your PM mate.

Didn't Portzy teach at Cott high as well ?

Don't think he was a teacher at the school, just Head of the Youth Centre. Great Bloke, who was generous with his time. Came from a good Rugby League family who served the club well in the 1970's/early 80's. Steve, Karl and Jimmy.

Oh yeah, i played against that lot too.

I also played with and against some legends of the game in the last game at the Boulevard! Kemble, Whiteley, Topliss etc.

I win!