I also have no interest in the 9's.... It's either the main final or nothing for me.

and will not want to risk injuries at that stage of the season

Clubs at the top of Championship 1 who are pushing for promotion wont want to risk it

In The Championship the gap between play offs and relegation is only 2 clubs so doubt any of those will be too chuffed about it

Skolars and Gateshead will have to stay overnight just incase they make the final so that is a cost to them

These type of competitions are okay as a pre season , but since the move to summer who would risk several matches at one venue in Jan/Feb , and who would want to spend several hours watching matches freezing their whatsits off

It will be interesting to see how it goes and what quality of teams clubs send

But it comes across as an afterthought to apease fans of clubs who are just fed up and bored of little or no help from the RFL

The ' free ' TV deal that isn't working or liked by clubs or fans

The no more promotion , which just agravates the bigger Championship clubs with decent fan bases

Toulouse , who we are all suspicious of and are doing nothing except helping Ryanair and BMI Baby make a profit this year

What we do want is some serious help with marketing to get the people of the towns where we play to come down to our grounds and increase our incomes so that increasingly fed up owners/BODs dont have to dip as deep into their pockets as they do at the present

So doubt I'll be there

If we lose to Widnes, I can't see our fans being interested in the "B" competition (the 9's), and we'll send a fairly weak team (who will no doubt try their hearts out).

NRC Final for us and I'll be there (I'll even get there in time for the 9's warm up!), otherwise it's a beer in front of the TV...

i'll be only going to blackpool if halifax are fortunate enough to get to the final.
Its the weekend before we set off to the south of france to see fax

I'm in the boat, rather go to France and we're not paying for both if we don't have to.