And at 27 years of age, the question often looms for me – what's going to be next?

I'm fortunate to have added a few strings to my bow along the way, doing a degree along with Kevin Sinfield, Matt Diskin and Willie Poching.

I've also done a great deal of coaching and entered into two or three other avenues of business for when I finish in the glorious game.

Others like Disko have also started early in their post-career life after acquiring a vast portfolio of property investments and the changing room nickname "Bannatyne" to go with them. The game, which was once infamous for producing pub landlords, has come a long way over the years.

Leeds, particularly, has famous partnerships with Leeds Met University, Park Lane College and other educational bodies aimed at providing trade and educational path for players young and old.

Despite being correctly named as Superman by our fans, Brent Webb has taken a slightly different path – but just as cool none the less.

He is working at the Kobe restaurant and bar in Horsforth, two days a week for six hours at a time, in an effort to gain top-quality trade experience. Webby is a keen chef and is hoping to open his own restaurant when he retires back home to New Zealand.

The work he does at Kobe is completely voluntary and although well looked after, the rugby league legend gets no special treatment when things get hot in the kitchen.

Kobe is part of a group of restaurant bars situated around Leeds – Ark, Trio, Box in Headingley and Zed in Chapel Allerton being the others. The owners take great care of the Rhinos providing us with an almost weekly group meal on the last day of the training week.

A couple of weeks ago, Webby presented us with a fruit crumble dessert that he had prepared the night before.

When served, it resembled a regurgitated meat madras, but on trying it, the crumble turned out to be the best thing I had tasted in a long time.

Webby was the leading chef among a group of lads to take a cooking course last year – Ali Lauitiiti, Scott Donald, Danny Maguire, Lee Smith and Simon Worrall were the others – and as an auction prize at a Kevin Sinfield testimonial dinner, the lads were hired to visit the home of a Leeds Rhinos fan to prepare, cook and serve a meal and do the washing up.

I'm hoping that after a rise in his culinary status, Webby will do the same in one of my events next year.

I think what he is doing is fantastic. The old saying goes that if you love your job you will never do a day's work in your life and Webby can subscribe to that – times two.

The time he invests in Kobe right now will pay big dividends when he returns home and if the restaurant is anything like him we will see it in a Carlsberg advert in years to come because it will probably be the best restaurant in the world.