Quote ="Asgardian13"You don't have to have an extraordinary run like the one Saints have enjoyed to become a 'big' or 'famous' club. Throughout the era when the Pies were buying their long cup run Saints were known for being the enternal runners-up, always the bridesmaid etc. Saints shook that off in the SL era. If you go back to the late 60s Castleford became really famous on the back of the odd trophy success when their old 'High Speed Cas' slogan ( a pun on the Gas Board's advertsing campaign) caught the public's imagination. Winning two or three trophies over 5 years is easily enough to put a club right in the vanguard of the sport now. That's good, because it's much better for the game if the honours are spread around.'"
Fair comment, although the 'odd trophy' success was the Challenge Cup (then
the competition to win) in both 69 and 70 and the phrase most commonly used to describe us was 'classy Cas'. Surprisingly, people in the most far flung places still react with that when you say you're from Castleford...not surprisingly they tend to know little or nothing about the modern game
We became famous in the Eddie Waring era when RL was the only serious sport televised live on a weekly basis. We were never big and with the smallest of catchment areas, never will be.
FWIW I consider Warrington to currently (not necessarily permanently) be a big club who may get bigger providing they capitalise on their marketable image of trendy up and comers. However all factors considered I think it will take a number of trophy winning seasons for you to be spken of in the same terms as Wigan/Saints/Leeds or even Bradford/Hull.....hope this is one of them, good luck at Wembley.
We became famous in the Eddie Waring era when RL was the only serious sport televised live on a weekly basis. We were never big and with the smallest of catchment areas, never will be.
