: Mon Apr 06, 2009 5:42 pm  

Bilko wrote:

Get the rounds played 2-3 weeks apart towards the back end of the season, as it once was, with the draws being televised Live after the TV games and they wouldn't need to offer free tickets to get the interest going.

I'll second that proposal!!

: Mon Apr 06, 2009 5:58 pm  

Bilko wrote:

The Quarter Finals are on 29-31 May and the Semis are 8/9 Aug. Thats actually 10 weeks this year, worse than I thought. A pathetically long delay between rounds!

And the final is 2 weeks later?!

: Mon Apr 06, 2009 6:07 pm  

Jesus Of Suburbia wrote:

And the final is 2 weeks later?!

3 weeks later.

: Mon Apr 06, 2009 6:12 pm  

wakeyrule wrote:

I'll second that proposal!!

Well as a Wakefield fan I think you'd understand more than most what my moan for today is about lol. The long wait for the cup semi took your teams eye off the ball in Super League and by time it eventually came round the early round momentum had gone - hence the loss to Hull.

I also use that excuse to explain our cup semi defeat to Catalans in 2007.

: Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:27 pm  

Bilko wrote:

3 weeks later.

2 weeks

: Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:32 pm  

Jesus Of Suburbia wrote:

2 weeks

No, 3.

: Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:32 pm  

Bilko wrote:

The free ticket idea may have proved a success but its a waste of time for the RFL when they continue to ruin the cup by playing rounds sometimes as much as 7 weeks apart and hold Cup Draws behind closed doors to be announced "via the wires" by the press association (as they are doing tomorrow).

Get the rounds played 2-3 weeks apart towards the back end of the season, as it once was, with the draws being televised Live after the TV games and they wouldn't need to offer free tickets to get the interest going.

Agreed. I don't see why the draw could not have been made live on the BBC at the Leeds match.

: Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:35 pm  

RB wrote:

No, 3.

How? It's exactly 14 days, 2 weeks to the day

: Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:40 pm  

Jesus Of Suburbia wrote:

2 weeks

Jesus Of Suburbia wrote:

How? It's exactly 14 days, 2 weeks to the day

9th August to 29th August is not 2 weeks. Even I can work out that is 20 days.

: Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:40 pm  

Jesus Of Suburbia wrote:

How? It's exactly 14 days, 2 weeks to the day

Semi's are on the 8th and 9th and the Final is on the 29th. Think you will find that's 21/20 days.