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Post by russ on Aug 28, 2016 17:13:04 GMT
The story of Billy William's shirt from the Red Devils of the Lance Todd era is a great story. History is something that has tended to be neglected in RL circles and that always strikes me as sad. Attachments:
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Post by greg on Aug 28, 2016 18:03:29 GMT
Having only just started following RL and Salford this season, I find it amazing that a club of our stature and tradition has only lifted the Challenge Cup once and hasn't even appeared in a final for nearly 50 years.
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Post by russ on Aug 28, 2016 19:47:45 GMT
Having only just started following RL and Salford this season, I find it amazing that a club of our stature and tradition has only lifted the Challenge Cup once and hasn't even appeared in a final for nearly 50 years.  One for every decade!  I don't want to put you off but the CC is the official graveyard sponsor of SRD's hopes, not many people know that! |
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Post by bonitared on Aug 28, 2016 20:02:50 GMT
Having only just started following RL and Salford this season, I find it amazing that a club of our stature and tradition has only lifted the Challenge Cup once and hasn't even appeared in a final for nearly 50 years. But I was there,albeit did expect to see them there again in my lifetime ! |
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Post by Chico on Aug 28, 2016 23:35:51 GMT
They’ve been in enough finals to win more though. The 1903 Challenge Cup Final against Halifax was a bit of game changer.
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Post by russ on Aug 29, 2016 0:40:28 GMT
They’ve been in enough finals to win more though. The 1903 Challenge Cup Final against Halifax was a bit of game changer. I know I said RL doesn't make enough of history but I never expected to have some one among us who'd been to that game!  |
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Post by Carnster on Aug 29, 2016 7:41:05 GMT
There's a lot of decent books on the history of RL floating around, and a lot more on individual clubs, and individuals at clubs.
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Post by scoot on Aug 29, 2016 12:58:40 GMT
There's a lot of decent books on the history of RL floating around, and a lot more on individual clubs, and individuals at clubs. There used to be a saying, When Salford win the cup there's a war |
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Post by bonitared on Aug 29, 2016 16:05:40 GMT
So,that'll be why we threw the semi against Sheffield,to preserve world peace!
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Post by russ on Aug 29, 2016 16:47:46 GMT
There's a lot of decent books on the history of RL floating around, and a lot more on individual clubs, and individuals at clubs. There used to be a saying, When Salford win the cup there's a war My gran used to say that but she and a few others in her generation thought Salford had won it in 1914 too! |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2016 17:05:32 GMT
Salford winning a trophy or mutually assured destruction.
Seems like a fair price to pay for success.
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Post by scoot on Aug 29, 2016 17:58:04 GMT
There used to be a saying, When Salford win the cup there's a war My gran used to say that but she and a few others in her generation thought Salford had won it in 1914 too! Think we won the championship cup in 1914 |
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Post by russ on Aug 29, 2016 20:42:21 GMT
My gran used to say that but she and a few others in her generation thought Salford had won it in 1914 too! Think we won the championship cup in 1914 Sums it all up for SRD: two different trophies, 1914 and 1938(not even the year the war began), "Right that's it blame them for the Wars!"  |
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Post by stouffer on Aug 30, 2016 7:45:11 GMT
We also won the Arriva Trains Cup in 2003, which triggered the invasion of Iraq.
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Post by scoot on Aug 30, 2016 16:23:12 GMT
We also won the Arriva Trains Cup in 2003, which triggered the invasion of Iraq. See, I told you |
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