Over the months of the season, there have been so many posts about people not caring about the cup (better none to most as The Mickey Mouse Cup)..

To my amazement, it now seems to be the best thing since sliced bread, with all and sundry now planning their big day.

Do I sense a change in attitude to people perception to the cup now?

I have to admit to being of an age where the FA Cup and Challenge Cup still mean a lot.

I've always maintained that given the choice the GF is my preference and stick by it.
The CC is still a great trophy and i will/would be proud to win it.

Seconded. I think thats everyones thoughts summed up as well.

Its important...to the club financially... to the players for the prestige....to the fans for a great day out...

but its still secondary these days to the GF

No surprise to me, as a Saints fan. In recent years, the attitude in your first paragraph has been all about not getting there yourselves and trying to belittle Saints' achievement in getting there so often in the SL era.

I don't know whether you've been to the new Wembley before but if you haven't you will find the atmosphere outside the stadium to be a a crushing disappointment. However, once you sit on the vertical slopes of seating and have managed to stop your head from spinning, the noise and atmosphere is like nothing else. You'll be an instant convert. It's the best final even now with all the hype over the Grand Final. IMO can't beat the Challenge Cup final and it has to be kept alive.

I still feel the same. I would give up a win Saturday if it meant we won our 4th title in a row. The SL will always come before the cup for me.

Well, luckily this year we have finalists that have sold it out.

The Challenge Cup is great, a prestigious trophy, one of only two meaningful ones a club can win each year. I always want us to win it.

However, despite how much the fans may enjoy the day it still is not as significant as winning a championship.

Absolutely. It's a fabulous memory (can't wait to see the full re-run of the 1978 cup final promised on BBC4 in Sept)....but winning the GF is the pinnacle.

Ditto.

Ask any premiership footy team if the FA cup is unimportant or the cricket team if the ashes dont mean owt.

The Challenge Cupp will always be a MAJOR rugby tournament with all the drama, romance and poassion of an entire SL season packed into 80 minutes. Yep GF win would be great by Wembley victory will always be sweet.

[sizeshame you'll only get to look at the cup as the Wolves parade it round the stadium for the second year running[/size.

i agree and have said as much in the past when saints fans have waved their cc record at us, but in monetary terms its (CC) serious money into the club isn't it?

It is but whether it is as much as the GF not sure.IIRC GF winners get a cheque for £390,000 plus the added bonus of a shared gate from the WCC.

I always want us to win the cup, I love cup final day. The GF is still the one to win, but if we win the CC this year we'll have beaten all of the other teams currently in the top 5 in doing so, so it will be a great achievement.

Seeing as there are only two trophies to play for then I would say the Challenge Cup is more important these days than it was a couple of decades back when there was the Regal Trophy, Lancashire/Yorkshire Cups, League title and Premiership.

In football the reason the FA Cup has lost a bit of its shine is because of the Champions League, ie clubs would rather finish 4th in the league and win nothing, than 5th in the league and win the FA Cup, which is sad. In RL you don't have that.

Given the choice of the Grand Final or the Challenge Cup final then I would rather win the GF, but I don't think there is a great deal in it, the CC is the most historic competition in RL.

No, it's not. It's full of Happy Clappers in Jester's Hats doing Mexican Waves.