First game 21/01/1928, Last game 9/11/1940 Played 328 Tries 6 Goals 830 Drop Goals 4 Points 1,686.

Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2011.

Full-back Billy Holding was the first Warrington player to kick 100 goals in a season – on his way to kicking more than 800 for the Wire. Only Steve Hesford and Lee Briers have kicked more in the primrose and blue.

Holding first kicked 100 goals in a season during the 1930-31 campaign. His 99^thand 100^thgoals came in a 16-0 victory at Leigh on the last day of the season. He extended his club record to 125 in a season two years later.

Holding kicked some magnificent goals for Warrington, but none were more dramatic than one at Central Park in the dying seconds of a third round Challenge Cup tie on a misty day in March 1933.

Wigan were leading 7-4 when Warrington scrum-half Dai Davies scored a try in the corner to level the scores with the conversion attempt to come. Holding teed up the ball almost on the touchline and, with the help of some spectators, made a pathway through the straw which had been used to protect the pitch, to give him an approach to the ball.

The crowd fell silent as Holding ran up and toe-poked the ball, which sailed through the gathering gloom and between the posts. St Helens were beaten 11-5 in the semi-final two weeks later and Warrington were at Wembley for the first time.

Such was Holding’s skill as a goalkicker that the publicity posters in London before the final declared: “Come to Wembley to see Holding the wonder kicker.” On the big day, unfortunately, Holding could only kick four goals compared to six goals from six attempts by Len Bowkett, the Huddersfield centre, and so Warrington lost a thrilling final 21-17. Such is the lot of a goalkicker.

Holding, who was 5ft 9in and 11st 7lb, arrived at Wilderspool from Maryport in Cumbria early in the 1927-28 season and played trial games for the ‘A’ team under the name of Kimberley. He was quickly signed up and made his first-team debut, aged 20, to home to York in January 1928. He was the first-choice full-back and goalkicker for the next 10 years, playing in five major finals.

Holding collected Lancashire Cup winner’s medals in 1929 and 1932 and was a key member of the Warrington teams who suffered narrow defeats in the Championship Finals of 1935 and 1937.

He broke his leg in the first round of the Challenge Cup at Barrow in 1936 and that injury robbed him of a second appearance at Wembley. It also cost him the chance of selection on the Great Britain tour that summer, his future replacement at Warrington Billy Belshaw, then of Liverpool Stanley was selected.

Holding was granted a testimonial match in 1938, after 10 years of exemplary service, and was transferred to Rochdale Hornets shortly afterwards. He returned to Wilderspool in 1940 to make one war-time appearance as a guest player, taking his tally to 328.

He then guested briefly for Salford before retiring in 1941. After the war, however, he came out of retirement to make 19 appearances for the fledgling Workington Town club, kicking 31 goals and making his final appearance against Oldham in a Lancashire Cup tie in September 1946, aged 39.

Holding’s club record of 834 goals for Warrington lasted until he was well into his seventies. It was not until January 1982, more than 40 years after he last pulled on a primrose and blue jersey, that Steve Hesford took it from him.

Holding died, aged 79, back in Maryport in November 1986.

Hall of Fame: Ashcroft, Holding and Murphy