Despite everything former St Helens and Wales great Keiron Cunningham achieved in his career, one thing stands out.
Or perhaps that's two things.
"I've won a lot of trophies in my career, but for me, my best memories were playing against that Brisbane side twice," the five-time Super League winner told AAP of his encounters with the champion Broncos outfit in 2001 and 2007.
"Coming up against that team of absolute superstars, and beating them twice, that's what I remember above everything else."
Cunningham, who played a staggering 496 games for St Helens, is now in charge of the club as they bid to join an elite group of World Club Challenge winners.
Leeds, Bradford, Wigan and the Sydney Roosters are the only teams to have lifted the trophy on three occasions - a group Cunningham is desperate for his young squad to join.
Despite being just two games into his coaching career, having taken over from Australian Nathan Brown following last year's Super League grand final victory, Cunningham is well prepared for this particular challenge.
He knows what it's like to come face to face with icons of the game and beat them.
The Brisbane teams who went down to Cunningham's gutsy sides read like a who's who of Australian rugby league: Darren Lockyer, Shane Webcke, Justin Hodges, Petero Civoniceva, Gorden Tallis and Lote Tuqiri among the players in them.
That's the task facing his young squad, who will take on a talent-laden South Sydney squad led by two of the game's most damaging ballrunners in Greg Inglis and George Burgess.
"There's no bigger challenge for a team of juniors than playing against some of their idols who they've watched in the NRL," he said.
"Inglis is a once-in-a-lifetime player, once in a generation, like your Andrew Johns or Darren Lockyers."
However, one thing already hasn't quite gone to plan for Cunningham - unseasonably warm weather.
While the highs of seven degrees might not be warm enough for Inglis and his teammates to strut around in their shorts, Cunningham is cursing Mother Nature for taking away one of the great advantages of northern hemisphere teams against their southern rivals at this time of year.
"I was hoping for hail, rain, snow, a few locusts and even the plague would be good," he said.
"But we've not quite got it."
