2019 Challenge Cup Round Five Draw : Mon Apr 01, 2019 6:13 pm  

2019 Challenge Cup Round Five Draw The fifth round of the Coral Challenge Cup saw the entry of the four Super League sides who took part in last season's middle eights competition as the minnow crossed their fingers and hoped for a fantastic away day at Leeds Rhinos, Hull KR, Salford Red Devils or London Broncos. There were sixteen names in the draw with St Helens amateur side Thatto Heath Crusaders the lowest placed side, joining the surviving Betfred Championship and Championship One sides in the hat. League legend Martin Offiah and Steve Prescott Foundation's Linzi Prescott drew the balls at the Boxpark at Wembley Stadium READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

2019 Challenge Cup Round Five Draw The fifth round of the Coral Challenge Cup saw the entry of the four Super League sides who took part in last season's middle eights competition as the minnow crossed their fingers and hoped for a fantastic away day at Leeds Rhinos, Hull KR, Salford Red Devils or London Broncos. There were sixteen names in the draw with St Helens amateur side Thatto Heath Crusaders the lowest placed side, joining the surviving Betfred Championship and Championship One sides in the hat. League legend Martin Offiah and Steve Prescott Foundation's Linzi Prescott drew the balls at the Boxpark at Wembley Stadium READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

Re: 2019 Challenge Cup Round Five Draw : Mon Apr 01, 2019 6:52 pm  

Home to Leigh, pretty uninspired stuff, but a great draw if you happen to be Joe Cator.

Re: 2019 Challenge Cup Round Five Draw : Mon Apr 01, 2019 7:03 pm  

SirStan wrote:

Home to Leigh, pretty uninspired stuff, but a great draw if you happen to be Joe Cator.

Crap draw for us also (different reasons obviously). Overall it's a poor draw, no obvious games for BBC TV/Live Streaming.

Re: 2019 Challenge Cup Round Five Draw : Thu Apr 04, 2019 6:36 am  

Playing it on Thursday 11th, sensible decision by the club and gives us a great turnaround for Easter

Re: 2019 Challenge Cup Round Five Draw : Thu Apr 04, 2019 10:32 am  

Some Leigh fans aren’t happy one said it was ridiculous having to do an 8 hr round trip from Leigh on a Thursday how was she getting here on a bike

Re: 2019 Challenge Cup Round Five Draw : Thu Apr 04, 2019 10:44 am  

Think both clubs agreeing to the Thursday shows both are thinking of Good Friday and the Easter block of games. They have Widnes and I'd suggest that is more important to them as a club? Big positive in an 8 day turnaround. Personally I like Thursday games as it's my day off but appreciate it isn't convenient for some?

Re: 2019 Challenge Cup Round Five Draw : Thu Apr 04, 2019 1:45 pm  

Do people forget midweek games were the norm when I started watching in the eighties I don’t remember anyone complaining then

Re: 2019 Challenge Cup Round Five Draw : Thu Apr 04, 2019 2:14 pm  

True but back then people had more free time and more expendable cash imo. We've seen the best of it I reckon

Re: 2019 Challenge Cup Round Five Draw : Thu Apr 04, 2019 2:18 pm  

fun time frankie wrote:

Do people forget midweek games were the norm when I started watching in the eighties I don’t remember anyone complaining then

Yes the floodlight cup shown on bbc that was good

Re: 2019 Challenge Cup Round Five Draw : Thu Apr 04, 2019 10:22 pm  

I can see why both clubs want it, would have preferred Saturday or Sunday. What it does show is the stupidity of the Easter programme, why when we are playing some teams three times do we need to cram two games over three days? Just a good job the BBC don’t want to show our game.