Re: 1895 Cup Quarter Finals : Thu Jun 06, 2019 12:44 pm  

That's true. John Kear did say he was putting out a weakened team on Wednesday night though. I'm not sure about Halifax.

Hx basically put out their Reserve side nobody who played v Bradford included

[Jemmo]

Re: 1895 Cup Quarter Finals : Thu Jun 06, 2019 1:39 pm  

We don't have that luxury, we'd have pretty much the same players for all three.

Although the irony of that means the championship side we draw might themselves play a week side against us

Re: 1895 Cup Quarter Finals : Thu Jun 06, 2019 4:29 pm  

[quote="Jemmo"]The final will be played between the winners of the 2 semi finals[/quote
I would have thought it would make more sense to play the 1895 final before the challenge cup final can't see many neural fans staying behind after the challenge cup final to watch a cup final for which there is no prize money.

Re: 1895 Cup Quarter Finals : Thu Jun 06, 2019 5:12 pm  

I believe the original plan was to play the game before the Challenge Cup final but the RFL announced that for technical reasons it couldn't be done.

You little money-grabber Geoff: Fancy thinking neutrals would only want to watch it if money was at stake!

The Challenge cup winning fans will be off to celebrate and the losers will want to get home as quickly as possible!

The concept of giving the lower league players the chance to play at Wembley is an excellent one. It'll be our only realistic chance of ever seeing the Dons play at Wembley too. The planning leaves something to be desired but it can hopefully be improved upon for next season.

The possibility of avoiding midweek games needs to be looked into as well but I suppose that's tricky without having a bunch of blank weekends without league fixtures.

[Jemmo]

Cup Draw : Fri Jun 07, 2019 7:28 am  

Dons have drawn Sheffield Seagulls at home in the cup

[Wanderer]

Re: 1895 Cup Quarter Finals : Fri Jun 07, 2019 10:44 am  

Jemmo wrote:

Any further progress in this competition will make getting promoted from this league harder, just look at those Halfiax and Bradford results when teams play twice in a few days

I tend to agree, cup runs are nice especially for Clubs with a big squad. For us the only important thing is getting out of this division.

[Wanderer]

Re: Cup Draw : Fri Jun 07, 2019 10:45 am  

Jemmo wrote:

Dons have drawn Sheffield Seagulls at home in the cup

I wonder where 'home' might be for this fixture?

Re: 1895 Cup Quarter Finals / Cup Draw : Fri Jun 07, 2019 10:59 am  

Outer Mongolia ?

Re: 1895 Cup Quarter Finals / Cup Draw : Fri Jun 07, 2019 11:52 am  

Sheffield?
Does anyone really care ... I hear Gareth Southgate is moving from footie to be our next coach ... he has all the necessary qualifications ... he's useless!

Re: 1895 Cup Quarter Finals / Cup Draw : Fri Jun 07, 2019 5:36 pm  

Why does it say we are away to leigh wednesday 26th june for 1895 cup on the website on the fixture list.
Yet under news heading we are at home to eagles as said.
atrociously run website.