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 Post subject: Re: Bill Ashurst
PostPosted: Thu Jun 16, 2022 6:37 am 
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Trinity11 wrote:Think he might be some relation I looked it up today on Internet and there from the same part of wigan from what I can see so I would think they are related somehow but not too sure


There is no family connection with Matty.






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 Post subject: Re: Bill Ashurst
PostPosted: Thu Jun 16, 2022 8:14 am 
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Giant of a man giant of a player giant character was down to earth in the local and loved a good laugh. Top man RIP Bill






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PopTart wrote:There is no family connection with Matty.


A very common surname in the Wigan area.

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 Post subject: Re: Bill Ashurst
PostPosted: Thu Jun 16, 2022 8:24 pm 
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Easily the best ball playing forward I've seen.Remember him getting smashed setting up a try for Andy Fletcher almost on the line in the South West corner.Can't remember anything else, just that try.Might have been a cup game.RIP Bill.

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I read his autobiography and found that the chapter relating to his time with Trinity would appear to have been a happy experience for him which is good to know. What I did find, however, which surprised me somewhat, was that his account of his younger days with the Wigan youth teams and the Wigan first team he came across as being rather boastful and a b it full of himself. There again he probably knew all along what most of us discovered later, and that he actually was a rare talent indeed. I believe in his later years he became a "Born Again Christian". A genuine star of the game.

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Redscat wrote:I read his autobiography and found that the chapter relating to his time with Trinity would appear to have been a happy experience for him which is good to know. What I did find, however, which surprised me somewhat, was that his account of his younger days with the Wigan youth teams and the Wigan first team he came across as being rather boastful and a b it full of himself. There again he probably knew all along what most of us discovered later, and that he actually was a rare talent indeed. I believe in his later years he became a "Born Again Christian". A genuine star of the game.


He might have been born again but he was a bit of a lad in Aus. Left a few debts behind.






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PopTart wrote:He might have been born again but he was a bit of a lad in Aus. Left a few debts behind.

I guess he’s not going to worry about that now!

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PopTart wrote:He might have been born again but he was a bit of a lad in Aus. Left a few debts behind.


Not uncommon. I consider Broughy a minor genius and we will say no more on that one. These people often have extremes.






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The spirit of Bill came down a possessed David Fafita for about 10 seconds during the 2nd half today. Any one else notice the play?






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Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo wrote:The spirit of Bill came down a possessed David Fafita for about 10 seconds during the 2nd half today. Any one else notice the play?


Do you mean the chip over? It was brilliant. If the others had been switched on it was a try hands down.






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