Quote ="Yorkshire_Red"Brilliantly put Mike.
It was around about this point last year that I started to have serious concerns that the club wouldn't be around this season and it hurt like Hell. This club has given me so much to be thankful for (mainly off the field of course). It's where I've met more friends than I could care to even count, it's where I met my partner & without it our beautiful, wonderful daughter would not be in this world. By December & that infamous night in Pendleton church it was hard to imagine ever seeing a Salford side take the field again, then at the beginning of January I remember my heart racing as I sat in the court through our 2nd winding-up order. Thankfully that was as low as it got.
I'd never heard of Dr Marwan Koukash when the news broke that night of his intentions to save the club, however, the more I found out over the coming weeks leading up to the takeover being finalised, the more I liked him and now we're less than 24 hours away from him announcing the future of this club to us and I cannot wait.
I will never truly be able to express my gratitude to him for giving this club 1 more life. I don't care if we never get to Wembley or to a grand final, I don't care if we never get relegated again in my lifetime (though I believe that Dr Koukash does care about these things & I believe that the keyboard warriors who tell him he hasn't got a hope of acheiving these things seriously underestimate his resolve). He's kept alive a club that means so much to me, my family & my friends and that to me is 100 times more valuable than any piece of silverware.
He has always said that this season is a celebration of the fact that we still exist, well regardless of who's signed, who's not signed or the font of the website or anything, let's really celebrate these last 48 hours of the season because I honestly believe that there's plenty more celebrating to do in the coming years. Let's face it, after the last few years we're a little bit out of practice at being optimistic about the future.'"
Utterly brillant post. It's more than just a club to us and this sums it up perfectly. Very well said indeed.
. I wonder what we'll be saying this time next year.......
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