RIP Ferris Ashton

[bondi paul]

Some great suggestions from you guys, particularly like the Ferris Ashton Stand with Lest we forget on the bottom for the Anzac Day game. Also someone suggested a game with another club being played for the Ferris Ashton Cup, I'd quite like the Manly v Easts game be played for the Ashton Mossop Cup, it'd be just like the old days with Ferdie & Moose neither giving an inch.

Well played Ferdie, you will not be forgotten, a true Easts man.

great suggestion arty

[Guest]

Thoughts are with the family and friends.

Loved watching him and Moose on the Sunday mornings when I was a kid.

RIP.

[stsae]

I wish I had one of those Save Ferris t-shirts.

He was the guest MC at the Paladium event in 07 at The Titts old Carrara Stadium. Great buzz to meet him personally.

The Anzac Day ideas sound great.

Respec OldBoy.

[Guest]

I like Headless Chook's idea....Lest We Forget.
Can't see how anyone could complain since he was a serviceman.
Memories.........Vale Ferris.

[davos]

"From early days i was the keenest of [Eastern Suburbs] fans. Many, many times I sat on the hill at the sports ground and SCG and watched Easts in their red, white and blue. When I look back now I'm very, very proud of the fact that I never played with another club. They were my club."

- Ferris Ashton.




Brings a tear to the eye.

Rest easy old mate....

This is before the days when footballers used to play for the money. The money was crap, and even up until the late 80s, most footy players had to have an actual job apart from footy to survive. These days you feel like the game is a business. Few players remain who are similar to Ferris Ashton. Fitzy, Hindmarsh are a good example. Anasta, SBW are Antonyms of what Ferris was.

[redwhiteblue]

I loved this gentleman so much. He picked me out of the crowd on Anzac Day in 2010 as I was right down the front, being a lone Rooster amongst a sea of Dragons fans. He told me I was a brave young lady for sitting amongst them..RIP Mr Ashton. They don't make gentlemen like you anymore.

[Guest]

RIP Ferris Ashton.. A true Eastern Suburbs Rooster! Great ideas everyone on how the club could remember him, he throughly deserves an award named after him.

[The Axe]

Vale Ferris..

You were a great Rooster..

I remember one of the prizes on Rex's show was a coupon to Ferris Ashton's Viking Sauna..

As well as Meapro ham & Patra OJ..

He will be missed..

Dont forget the Fabiano shirt...

[The Axe]

Vale, Ferris.
I recall returning from a Wallabies match on the train from Homebush. He was sitting opposite with his wife. They were both very much in love. A true gentleman and an entertainer.
If we could all represent the club as Ferris did. In his own way and always serving the club with passion and his warm heart.
You will be sadly missed.

[Guest]

Great thread for a great Rooster.

The ANZAC Day ideas are superb. Ferris Ahston medal sounds perfect.

[bondi paul]

Vale, Ferris.
I recall returning from a Wallabies match on the train from Homebush. He was sitting opposite with his wife. They were both very much in love. A true gentleman and an entertainer.
If we could all represent the club as Ferris did. In his own way and always serving the club with passion and his warm heart.
You will be sadly missed.

nice post axe.

[roostwin]

RIP Ferris, Sad day for the Roosters and his family.

[Guest]

Some great suggestions from you guys, particularly like the Ferris Ashton Stand with Lest we forget on the bottom for the Anzac Day game. Also someone suggested a game with another club being played for the Ferris Ashton Cup, I'd quite like the Manly v Easts game be played for the Ashton Mossop Cup, it'd be just like the old days with Ferdie & Moose neither giving an inch.

Well played Ferdie, you will not be forgotten, a true Easts man.

This ^^^^^

[roosterproud]

why not a ferris ashton written like arties was on our 2012 jumpers but on the anzac jumper only. or maybe we emortilize one of our heros every year

[bondi-boy]

It feels like when a country's monarch passes away, he truly was Rooster royalty.

It will be even sadder day at the Anzac Day game this year, not seeing Ferdie at the pre game ceremony !

A true Rooster, and red white and blue through and through.

Amen.

RIP Ferris.