Warrington may not have won any notable silverware since their 1974 Challenge Cup victory, but they do boast one record that no other team can match.

The Cheshire side are the only club in the history of the sport in England to play every one of their seasons in the top flight. That is no mean feat when you look at the list of honours clubs like Wigan and St Helens have recorded.

Warrington benefited from the boost in popularity for the sport after the Second World War and it was during this period they enjoyed their most successful spell.

With Australian winger Brian Bevan joining the Wolves in 1946 and teaming up with fellow new recruits Harry Bath and Gerry Helme, they went on to win all the sport's major honours, including the League Championship three times - in 1948, 1954 and 1955.

By the time the Super League era began in the mid-1990s, though, Warrington were nothing more than a mid-table club - and so it remained until 2005.

That year the Wolves achieved their highest ever Super League finish when they came fourth to qualify for the play-offs - an achievement they repeated the following season.

Warrington then invested heavily in their squad at the start of the 2007 season by signing Great Britain international Adrian Morley on a four year-deal from the Sydney Roosters, Paul Johnson, another Great Britain international, from Bradford Northern and New Zealand international back-rower Vinnie Anderson, from St Helens.

However, things did not go well and in the context of the previous season the club finished a disappointing seventh and outside the play-off spots.

Tony Smith, the England coach, was appointed during the 2009 season with the aim of restoring some pride to a club who do not know about life outside the top division.