I’m 38 mate and you’re bob on. Wigan Rugby League club has and continues to play a huge part in my life but had it not been for him I’m not sure I would be half as interested. I was mesmerised as a kid watching all the stars we had and he made it happen. One huge memory stands out as a 11/12 year old kid at Central Park that always caught my imagination and it wasn’t even in the 80 minutes! It was Henry Paul and Inga in the warm up throwing 40/50 yard passes to each other, some normal passes, some one handed, some flick passes out the back. I’d stand there and it felt like you were watching magicians.

God bless Maurice and rest in peace.

Met Jim Mills once and once was enough. Horrible man.

I was thinking of the Ashurst last night.
I remember it really well as the attack took place right in front of my mates and myself.
For an "hard knock" Mills took Ashurst from behind and literally beat the shoite out of him for no reason other than he saw an opportunity to make a cheap attack.
I'm very much old school so a bit of rough stuff I saw it as part of the game but the attack by Mills was total out and out a criminal offence if it had occurred off the pitch.
I didn't rate Mills as a player and I always thought of him as just a thug who should have been banned for life after the Greengrass incident which was as cowardly act as you will ever see.

I'd actually rate that incident worse than Ben Flower. With Flower at least there had been a coming together between each player leading up to punch #2.

With Mills the NZ player had done nothing to offend other than score a try, for which he suffered 12 stitches.

Should have been jailed.

My dad and I were firmly of the opinion it was a targetted attack, designed purely to put Wigan's main playmaker out of action very early in the match. Bill was in a rich vein of form at the time, and Widnes clearly decided it was worth seeing Mills get his marching orders so long as Wigan's main danger man was put in hospital. Disgusting and pathetic.