No need to name them if you don't want to.

Maybe you once found yourself on a plane sitting next to a small GB half back/hooker from Pontefract who bears more than a passing resemblance to Mini Me from the Austin Powers movies?

Maybe you work in a bakery in Merseyside and often sell your entire weekly stock of pies to an incredibly overweight Wales/GB hooker in a single transaction?

Maybe you live next door to a follicly challenged centre from Yorkshire who sells everything he owns on a well known internet auction site?


Lets hear your stories people.

see and occasionally speak to the giants players at the gym

i know the burgess family..

I was hoping for more along the lines of 'I once drew a big chalk penis on the back of a well known geordie five eighth / stand off / fullback whilst he waited to be served in a busy bar in Parramatta in 2004'

But I guess it's a start

I don't know if you know a guy named Barry McKenzie fast winger of the 80s? met him chatting up my misus,fast winger and a kool talker....

Was it at the Sushi - Ya BYO Restaurant in Artarmon??

i met my personal favourite player freddie fittler in the east leagues club at bondi junction, and tried in vain to persuade him to sign for widnes. and i have met many great players over the years fro the likes of reg gasnier and the living god who is alex murphy to my ex boozing pal jules o'niell to keiron cunningham.

I met Mal Meninga in a Chinese take-away in Wheldon Road. Was after Cas played a touring Aussie side (sometime in early 90s I think). Meninga hadn't played in the game but had obviously built up an appetite!
Was also sat in Burger King in Cas on my own on a table of four, when Vowles, Eager and Fritz asked if they could take the other three seats - coun't really say no!

I don't doubt you....but it sounds like you made that bit up

I was about 7 foot from that fight between the bouncers and Bridge and Harrison/half of town last week if that counts?




Nahh seriously, I've met a few in my times, most league guys go out of their way to talk and be nice as opposed to soccer types who live in the clouds

When to high school with Ben Galea, he was in year 10 when I was in year 7 (And none of this crap about us being the same age!)

About 150 citizens of the township of Widnes will have witnessed a former London, Wigan and Widnes halfback (a bit of a 'menace' in all truth) inserting a drinking straw into his gastro-intestinal tract - from the lower opening - in a nightclub called The View...

Me and a mate were out in Wakefield a few years ago and the entire New Zealand squad was in The Gate, we started talking to Sonny Bill Williams and we stayed with them all night, Wiki was a real beer monster!!!

A lass who I know got to know quite a few of the Hull KR squad on sunday night

I watched Maninga that night to in the chinese he was pist as a fart like other players in there.
Comming from Cas over years you get to know a lot players you grown up with or live near them i find it strange this thread because it seams normal to me bumping in to players.

yes i too find it quite strange as bumping into players both past and present is pretty common in and around castleford,infact ill be out round xscape tonight and you can almost guarentee there will be plenty of super league players having a few beers in the bars.

Players I've spoken to -

I used to manage a Wine Bar in Southport in the early 90's . Billy McGinty was an occasional customer .

I once met Joe Lydon whilst shopping in Wigan in the early 90's .

When I worked in a Southport supermarket in 2000 , Sir Alex Murphy used to shop there with his wife . He'd always stop and have a chat about Saints .

I spoke to James Graham a couple of times in Asda in Aintree . After a Friday away games , he'd usually call in or a few munchies .

Players I've seen -

I currently work in St Helens , and Saints players frequently pop in , although I haven't spoken to any .

Apsolutley true.

I saw him myself with 3/4 other aussies.
He was stood waiting for his order.
They all had there green and gold track suits on and stood out like a sore thumb.
I could'nt believe my eyes.

This story is deffinatly true.

Often see Ryan Atkins, Jamie Peacock and Mark Calderwood around. The first is a friend of a friend.

Met and spoke to plenty over the years.

Probably goes for most people on here, especially those who have been around for a while? After all, they are only normal human beings like everyone else?

Thats right.
I worked around the game a few years ago and had plenty to do with a couple of NRL Clubs.
Matthew Ridge was a workmate and Spud Carroll was a regular at work.
I see Tonie Carroll at the local shopping all the time and say G'Day

Know a senior saints player personally, due to my gf being best friends with his wife so have been in the company of the saints team many a time.

I could tell you a story or two about a load of SL players

Berrigan lives opposite

All of the current Wigan squad, Trent Barrett, Joe Lydon, Shaun Edwards, Phil Clarke, Denis Betts, Shaun Wane, Martin Offiah, Jason Robinson, John Monie, Brian Noble, and the fantastic Billy Boston. Oh and Maurice Lindsay.

Met the All Blacks squad including Lomu sometime in the mid-90s.

Oh and met the Salford Red Hot Flames on a memorable night out many years ago...

Met many Widnes players over the years, including Endaflops gang of wasters. Naked haka, drunken arguing in KFC, the straw incident and having Simon Finnagan buy me a drink as he thought I was Stephen Myler. Oh those were the days



On the other hand, met many players who do the game proud. Cassidy, O'Connor, Blanch, Carter and erm...erm...Offiah to name a few off the top of me head.