Va'aiga Tuigamala. Great bloke, a real gentle giant.

That he is. Comes in the South Stand Bar after every single Fax home game now, and is always happy to chat with the fans in there. Top bloke.

Vila Mautautia and Apollo Perelini where excellent profesionals and people. Nowadays Maurie Faasavalu takes the plaudits, always signing autographs, plays rugby with the little kids when he use to go watching his cousin play for Thatto Heath and just generally a really nice guy.



Tim Jonkers, Paul wellens and Fereti Tuilangi are others.

A few of the Leigh players are friendly blokes, Andy Coley is a nice bloke but the friendliest guy in rugby must be Steve McCormack...sometimes to his cost, I fear.

Johnny Whiteley, absolute legend of the game. Known as "Gentleman Johnny Whiteley" and thats what he is. Absolute gent, always got time to chat with fans, lives and breathes Rugby League. [urlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Whiteley[/url

James Graham, Danny Maguire and , bizarrely, Paul Cooke.



I was at the same roulette table as a lot of manly players 2 weeks a go and there banter was pretty funny.



Mark Carrol still hasn't signed my book!

Gentleman Johnny Whitely, a fantastic bloke who will give his time to anyone. One of my best mates lives with his Grandaughter now and he is even better for knowing.

I've met many players over the years, and i've never really had a problem with many.



Paul Sculthorpe, Barrie McDermott, Sean Long, Andy Farrell and Ian Millward were all really nice blokes.

I've had good chats with Terry Matterson, Danny Sculthorpe, Wayne Godwin and Stanley Gene to name a few that first spring to mind, whilst Jason Robinson was very obliging recently when a Dutch friend of mine randomly introduced herself to him in our local Tesco, simply because she wanted to meet an English celebrity while she was over here.



My brother's missus also seems to speak pretty highly of Phil Bailey after she used to serve him quite often in the cafe she used to work in.



Never spoken to Barrie MacDermott personally, but he appears very approachable whenever I see him at various matches; always has a posse of fans hanging off him.



The most memorable chat I've had with a (then) rugby league player was Lee Smith, who strolled up behind me at a cashpoint queue in a Leeds nightclub, and asked what I thought of Lee Smith. Not knowing it was him, I said I was quite impressed with what I'd seen of him during his first season, after which he introduced himself and thanked me before skipping off (literally) towards the bar. Odd.

I chatted to Petero Civonoceva outside a hotel for the best part of an hour once when he was over touring with Australia. He is a top bloke.

Nat Wood, I was only in Primary school but we spoke for about 15 Minutes at the end of season awards at Wilderspool many moons ago and he gave me his old boots



Also Tony Smith and Wayne Price

Joel & Sam tomkins met them on my holls last year sound lads the pair of them