I'd expect...

Burrow, McGuire, Hall and Peacock.
Possibly Smith, Sinfield, Diskin and JJB

But without the top 4 I'd play...

Smith
Donald
Gibson
Senior
Watkins
Sinfield
Webb
Leulaui
Buderus
Bailey
JJB
Kirke
Ablett

Diskin
Burgess
Worrall
Allan

My England side would be:

1. Shaun Briscoe
2. Peter Fox
3. Michael Shenton
4. Ryan Atkins
5. Ryan Hall
6. Danny McGuire
7. Rob Burrow
8. James Graham
9. Micky Higham
10. Jamie Peacock
11. Sam Burgess
12. Ben Westwood
13. Rob Purdham

14. James Roby
15. Maurie Fa'asavalu
16. Adrian Morley
17. Gareth Hock

I'd go.....
Briscoe
Fox
Shenton
Gleeson
Hall/L.smith
Mcguire
Myler
Peacock
Roby
Carvell
Burgess
Westwood
Westerman

Graham
Mcarthy-scarsbrook
Clough
Higham

The idea in the League Express this week about making the 'Magic Weekend' a Challenge Cup weekend seemed quite sensible IMO ....

depends on the draw.if all the top teams had lower league opposition and the only sll SL game was wakefield v quins it wouldn't be very tempting

Can't see clubs being happy giving up home advantage in the CC.

Wonder what the attendances will be like in the cup this weekend.

Pitiful, as usual I would imagine.

It's a competition on its last legs sadly.

IMO they shoudl have a big shake up of the competition.

The virtues of the cup are:
Great TV exposure
Gives little teams a chance to test themselves
Financial boost for small teams

They could do some radical stuff to make the cometition more appealing.

Finals and Semis I would keep the same, all interesting.

Quarters I would stage instead of MM at one venue. Scrap MM in its place

Rounds before should be team from lower division always at home to a SL side. It would be a great boost for small clubs, and the larger clubs fans can get interested early on.

Also takes a stupid fixture out of SL, but keeps the magic weekend

Sadly I think it's beyond fixing, unless games are made free entry up to the semi-finals with a larger percentage of the TV revenue being given to the smaller clubs to compensate for potential bumper paydays lost.

With Franchises in place and no P&R I would hope that it could be kept going for the benefit of the National Leagues. I'll bet the SL chairmen don't share my compassion though and as soon as they feel it's a hindrance it will be dropped faster than a whores knickers.

This I like the sound of.

All four quarter finals on the same day or spread over the weekend?

Would cities outside the RL heartlands be as interested in staging the event though I wonder?

And would the BBC show all four ties and big up the event in the same way Sky try to?

Bit Harsh on big Ali , I'm glad you are not the coach

Not too bad really for all pay fixtures when compared to the sole SL fixture played this weekend or the equivalent SL crowds where comparable. Perhaps SL is struggling?

Wigan - 9,466
Hull KR - 7,671
Gateshead - 4,325
Huddersfield -6,359