As did Paul Southern, not to mention Graham Holroyd, Danny Arnold and Ian Watson.

Paul Highton and Andrew Brocklehurst still do on a regular basis.

One thing they will all remember is Halifax's last visit to Salford's ground as they all played in that particular game.

This weekend "Gibbo" will be tucking into his benefit dinner (after racking up nearly 200 first team appearances for the club) the day after their latest trip to Weaste.

The previous visit was memorable as victory for the Blue Sox 34-26 on Sunday, September 7, 2002 saved their Super League status for another season and doomed the City Reds to the drop.

The euphoria was such that newly appointed coach Tony Anderson joined his players in an impromptu party in town that night!

And Andrew Dunemann got so giddy that he tried to pick up bagman Ned Kelly outside Lewins only to collapse into a heap!

It was Fax's first win in seven games in a shocking finale to the season and their first since victory in July at……..Salford.

It was also "TA's" first victory after returning to his old club after three and a half seasons at Gateshead/Hull as assistant to Shaun Macrae - who is now in charge at Salford!

Anderson's team that warm afternoon – or more precisely the team he had inherited from Steve Linnane a fortnight previously and reorganised slightly – was Jason Flowers, Robby Beckett, David Woods, Ryan Clayton, Danny Halliwell, Andrew Dunemann, Gavin Clinch, Andy Hobson, Johnny Lawless, Brett Goldspink, Jamie Bloem, Jason Netherton and Shayne McMenemy with the substitutes being Paul Davidson, Jim Gannon, Lee Greenwood and Jamie Thackray.

Unfortunately the glee did not last for long.

Stephen Pearson, the leader of the Advisory Group who had engineered an amazing coup d'etat over the August Bank Holiday weekend, was later to reveal that examination of the club's books had led to the discovery of a financial "black hole" at the Shay which was even worse than they had feared.

He even gave Anderson the chance to go back to the Boulevard in case he thought he had been lured back under false pretences.

The coach decided to soldier on though.

After talking with his new employers he reconciled himself to losing the big money overseas money men like Beckett, Woods, Goldspink and injured Colum Halpenny but the blow which hit him below the belt was the decision of Clinch to renege on a promise to stay and help out in 2003.

By the cruellest of ironies Clinch, who had played for the club through injury and was a friend and golfing partner of Anderson's, opted to go to the Willows instead.

Steve Simms, still the footballing supremo at the Willows, was the man who came to Anderson's Ripponden home to try and pour oil on troubled waters after Karl Harrison (a team mate of Clinch's at the Shay in 1998 of course) had made the initial overtures.