Challenge Cup 2018 : Fri Apr 20, 2018 6:32 pm  

We're on for a hat-trick. Can anybody stop the cup kings?


The draw for the sixth round wil take place at 8:10am Wednesday April 25th on the Chris Evans breakfast show BBC radio 2.

Who do you want?

We must be due a championship team?

Re: Challenge Cup 2018 : Fri Apr 20, 2018 6:56 pm  

giddyupoldfella wrote:

We're on for a hat-trick. Can anybody stop the cup kings?


The draw for the sixth round wil take place at 8:10am Wednesday April 25th on the Chris Evans breakfast show BBC radio 2.

Who do you want?

We must be due a championship team?

Bit harder to draw one now given we enter in the round of sixteen. Would be nice though. Our recent run is

2017
Wigan (Final)
Leeds (SF)
Castleford (QF)
Catalans (R6)

2016
Warrington (Final)
Wigan (SF)
Catalans (QF)
St Helens (R6)

2015
Leeds (QF)
Castleford (R6)
Sheffield (R5)

2014
Salford (R4)

2013
Wigan (Final)
Warrington (SF)
Catalans (QF)
Wakefield (R5)
North Wales (R4)

Only one team from outside Super League in sixteen games.

Re: Challenge Cup 2018 : Fri Apr 20, 2018 7:55 pm  

It will be mainly SL teams in the draw. Don't like the new format. Finish in the bottom 4 and you start in the cup the round earlier but get a lower league side so you can potentially rest your stars

Re: Challenge Cup 2018 : Fri Apr 20, 2018 8:14 pm  

Wilde 3 wrote:

It will be mainly SL teams in the draw. Don't like the new format. Finish in the bottom 4 and you start in the cup the round earlier but get a lower league side so you can potentially rest your stars

I'd gladly sacrifice the Magic weekend to have all the Super League clubs come in at round 5 meaning all Championship and League 1 clubs have a realistic chance of playing a SL club.

Re: Challenge Cup 2018 : Sat Apr 21, 2018 7:21 am  

ComeOnYouUll wrote:

I'd gladly sacrifice the Magic weekend to have all the Super League clubs come in at round 5 meaning all Championship and League 1 clubs have a realistic chance of playing a SL club.

Although I agree, we both know it wont happen. RFL are tied to it via the various contracts.

Re: Challenge Cup 2018 : Sat Apr 21, 2018 2:34 pm  

I hope we get Oldam

Re: Challenge Cup 2018 : Sat Apr 21, 2018 2:42 pm  

No shocks so far. Widnes hammer Coventry 90-0 and Warrington 26-0 up at home to Bradford.

Re: Challenge Cup 2018 : Sun Apr 22, 2018 8:11 am  

Don't really fancy our chances of being able to rest anyone. There will be at least 4 championship teams in the hat. But 3 of them will be Fev, Toronto, and either London or Leigh. You have to take all of those sides seriously. Can maybe afford to rest 2 or 3, but not wholesale changes. That leaves the winners of Whitehaven v Rochdale, and we all know Leeds will get them.

Re: Challenge Cup 2018 : Sun Apr 22, 2018 2:53 pm  

Please let us not slip up against Les Cats next week.
They are struggling big-time to put York away in the cup.
Online on BBC website if anyone wants to view.

Re: Challenge Cup 2018 : Sun Apr 22, 2018 2:54 pm  

Richard Horne's Doncaster leading Fev at half time.