Trialist Wills | |||||||
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OVERALL STATISTICS | |||||||
| BIRTH | AGE | SIGNED ON | FROM | ||||
| DEBUT | LAST MATCH | LEFT | |||||
| CAREER | APPEARANCES (SUBS) | ||||||
| TRIES | GOALS | DGOALS | PTS | ||||
Biography of Trialist Wills | ||||
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 HERITAGE NO : 471 Wills by Alex Service This was a pseudonym for a rugby union trialist, whose name we will never know. Apparently, one of the Saints' Directors (Bill Simister) had gone south to watch a match and was impressed with the back play generally and must have asked a particular player to come up for a trial. He was put straight into the first team for the away game against Rochdale Hornets on 30th October 1937. This guy was, apparently, highly-rated and it was a great pity that in his one first team game of rugby league he suffered from acute ball starvation, as the St. Helens Newspaper tells us: "Wills was most unhappy on the wing, getting one pass all the game, making one clever tackle to save a try, he was only required to make about three tackles in all and feeling cold and left out for lack of a chance to show his power and his paces." He looked yards faster than anyone else on the pitch too and when he had a chance to shine, "he was worked up into an excitable state and fumbled his one chance of scoring." Wills had a second trial the following week but seemingly was not signed on. Please note that we have used a notional date of birth for the site statistical purposes. Whatever became of him I suppose nobody will ever know! | ||||
PLAYER HONOURS | ||||
SEASON STATISTICS | ||||
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| Season (Official Matches) | Tries | Goals | DGoals | Matches |
| 1937~38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| TOTALS: | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Season (Other Matches) | Tries | Goals | DGoals | Matches |
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ALL MATCHES | ||||
| Date | Match | Pos | Opponents | Comp | Venue | FT | FTO | T | G | DG | ||
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| 30th Oct 1937 | 1 | L |
5 | Rochdale Hornets | L | A | 11 | 17 | VIEW |
| *Unofficial Match. **Non Playing Sub. |
| WINS : | LOSSES : 1 | DRAWS : |
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