Bill dinked the ball over the Bradford defence, re-gathered and Toppo followed him through, as keith Mumby the Bradford fullback approached Bill sold him the most outrageous dummy and went in under the sticks to score,

I like everyone else in the ground was watching Toppo, I think he even though he had the ball for a while.

amazing....

Toppo said it was like Roy of the rovers stuff when bill first put pen to paper for wakey. With regards to today's game yes it's totally different now. I still think he's the best second row I have ever seen.

It was a world record fee of £18,000 when we signed him. The £16,000 was his fee from Wigan to Penrith a few years earlier which was also a record fee at that time.

Bet there's more interest in the book from Wakey fans than Pie-Eaters.

Just imagine him fit with the side we had at the time I recon we would have had a side doing a similar job as the sixties side winning trophys alas it wasn't to be.

I'm sure it was against Wigan at home. He d chipped the ball forward and got sandwiched breaney or who ever elbowed him.

bill ashurst is the best player ive ever seen,never saw the great sixties team,but seen bill ashurst play,his ball handling skills were truly amazing,in my opinion he has no equal,and i will be buying his book for certain.

don't know if I am wrong but didn't Bill also used to be very good at kicking from hand and 40/20 nowadays would have been ideal for him

I was asked to write a foreword for the book. I have two hopes:
1. They use it
2. I did him justice

yes, your right he was a great kicker from hand and would have kicked 40 / 20s for fun. i can remember the rayne twins running onto the delayed passes ashurst delivered.he could open up any defence could bill ashurst great player.

When we signed him we had to raise the height of the dug out due to him being so tall. Hence one dug oit being higher than the other!

I thought that was because Bill Kirkbride wanted to stand when he was coaching?