Maybe 2019 wasn’t a one-off after all. The starring cast may have changed, but this latest chapter of the Salford Red Devils story has so many of the same narratives as the one three years ago, when one of Super League’s lowest-spending clubs reached the Grand Final against all the odds.
So much has changed since that day. The coach who masterminded that journey to Old Trafford, Ian Watson, left for Huddersfield. The mercurial half-back at the heart of their on-field success, Jackson Hastings, signed for Wigan before returning to Australia.
