Quote: Ganson's Optician "I can see both sides of the argument here. Let's be honest, in the modern era you need to win the big prize to be regarded as a top club.
Every time Koukash has opened his mouth there has been a thread on here saying Salford can never be a big club. Nobody remembers Les Diables Rouge, the side that caught the eyes of a nation and introduced it to the greatest game.'"
Exactly. This club had a golden era when Bevan played for us - we were undoubtedly the cream of that period and our roll of honour proves it - and we'll all have had highlights from our personal time as supporters, watching players like Davies and Langer, and recently winning Challenge Cups, but unless you were watching us in the 50s - and I'll be surprised if anyone posting on here was - then you haven't seen us be crowned champions.
The supporters of the real big clubs in modern day rugby league - Wigan, Leeds, St Helens, and to a lesser extent - based on their golden era being a lot more recent than our 40s and 50s heydey - Bradford, who have all seen their teams win the major prizes with their own eyes, won't see us as more than an upstart just because Brian Bevan scored a lot of tries before they were born.
58 years is a long [ilong[/i time. On Saturday it can end. This is absolutely massive.