I doubt it very much , a wet night in manchester in october , is never gonna compare with a weekend in the capital IMO .

Capital gets my vote every time

Agreed.

Hasn't it always been like that though? As long as I've been watching RL there has been talk of 'Wembleyitis' and teams looking ahead to next week's semi final. And that was in the days when 2 points lost in a league match could very realistically cost you the title.

Leave it as it is, I say. It's part of the magic of the cup and part of the challenge of success. It's why only great teams win the double.

On the pre semi final weekend Boots N All they never mentioned the games until the minute the programme went off when they offered a belated ' good luck' to the 4 teams.

Frankly, if they think it detracts from the league they should scrap the top 8 play off and crown the league leaders as champions and Hey Presto ! Every game is then important unlike the farce we have now where in theory someone can finish 8th, lose more games than they win and be ' Champions'

Ask supporters of Wire and Huddersfield if the cup is a second class competition !

You can't scrap the Grand Final. It's one of only 2 glamrous occasions in the RL calendar. The timing of it is the only thing that needs moving.

Have the Challenge Cup Final in July so teams have time to recover from it and build towards success in the playoffs.

Not that it's going to be much of a concern to us in the coming years unless we start signing some players.