I know. Why do you think it was my first taste of the cup? Mr Bywater made that same presumption.

A colloquial epression for funds going into the coffers of the Leeds Rugby.

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st,helens academy u mean,,and they only won in the last seconds

Looking for some sense on this subject it, sadly, led me to a post from a Bulls fan. There you go.

Firstly, I agree entirely with Ferocious Aardvark.
I think a big step forward would be to include CC games in with your season ticket, maybe a 50% discount or some sort of incentive to get season ticket holders to the games, as I think the price on friday night put off a lot Leeds fans due to them thinking theyre not getting value for money against a team such as Workington.
It seems that games not on the season ticket attract signifcantly less fans than games that are. For example leeds getting only 10,500 for Wire in the playoffs last year compared to 17,500 a few weeks earlier.
My point being its not only the CC that attendances dip for, basically its any game not included on the season ticket. Which may also be one of the reasons for our pathetic turn outs for international games.

Les Cats in a close competitive game which helped to develop our young players. St Helens last season were able to do that because they put in so much effort the rest of the season.

As for scrapping the cup, it seems daft to get rid of it because Super league clubs keep doing well, isn't that why they are in the top flight of RL in Europe(with Les Cats)? The FA cup in football is dominated by Premiership Clubs with the odd lower league clubs getting to the latter stages and no-one is calling for that to be scrapped

As already mentioned, without the cup RL would only be live on Sky and have an hour on a sunday on BBC which would only stop RL from being seen by more people and hinder the development at all levels or could end up killing the sport slowly because of less new fans seeing and becoming interested in the sport. The more fans we attract, which the cup can do better than Sky because not everyone has access to sky but will have BBC is they have a TV, the more money and players coming into the game improving this great game even futher

Do you think that would make much difference though? I would have thought those not willing to pay £12 to watch a mis-match would feel the same about paying £8, for example. If it's included in your season ticket, what happens if there isn't a home game?

I'm not saying the ideas aren't worthy of discussion, just pointing out some of the counter arguments.

What happens if/when Sky put their foot down and say right, scrap the CC or we'll pull the Super League money? Short and curlies springs to mind.

Thanks

No further questions.

Why would they do that?

Because they hate Wakefield.

What money does Sky make out of the CC?

The same as they make out of academy RL.

We used to have in the 70s/80s the Floodlit trophy,John Player cup, Yorkshire/Lancs cup, League title, Challenge cup , and Premiership.

Now there are TWO comps for gods sake. A knockout one is the only chance a mid to lower table team has of reaching a final.