So who do we want then? I want an away trip to a Lancashire superleague club. A few beers on the train across.

I love going to Halifax because it's a local derby, a good day out, not to far and if it's sunny then it's a glorious stand to stand in, and the pitch is real good too. Fax fans would really fancy it too and I'm sure it would be a classic cup tie like yesterday. However, with my greedy hat, The Shay only holds 6000. If we drew them at Odsal then I reckon we could push close to 9k. Wakefield would be a good one too. KR would bring a lot of fans.

FC, Catalans, Giants or any of the Lancashire sides don't really whet my appetite.

Wouldn't mind another SL club at Odsal, possibly Wakey

From a cup progression and club coffers point of view, it has to be Halifax at home.

From a selfish point of view, any of the Lancashire clubs away would be good for my travel arrangements

Wigan or Hull or Warrington at home pls.

Are gate receipts 50/50 in Challenge Cup?

home club are alllowed to deduct a specified percentage for expenses, and 'i think a small percentage goes to RFL for the cup winners prize pot. After that its a fifty/fifty split. Hence why anounced cup attendances often seem a bit lower than gate looks in real life.

I'm not sure we need another game against Fax. We are already guaranteed 4 contests against our neighbours this year.

Any well supported SL club at Odsal would be good and now I've said that we will probably get Huddersfield and their bus load full, though they're unlikely to get past Saints today I would have thought.

But its the Challenge Cup QF. It would be a fantastic tie for us or Fax.

Wakefield at Odsal for me, need to try to lay a few ghosts....but Wigan as a second choice

Wakey deffo another one id like to play. Don't mind either venue but obviously prefer Odsal.

We need to be realistic about this.

We aren't going to win this competition. And the game will be televised (all QF games will be on TV). That means if we get Halifax, it will probably be on Sky, because BBC get first pick. That means it might be on Thursday or Friday evening.

At this point, we need to be a maximising income. That means getting either Saints (assuming they beat Huddersfield) or the winner of the Wigan / Warrington game at home. We'd probably get on the Beeb on the Saturday or Sunday afternoon and can maybe push for 8-10K crowd and good payday.

Wakefield are apparently targeting the Cup this season (Carter said that on 'Back Chat' the other week). Going there on a Thursday night and losing in front of about 3K isn't going to swell our coffers much!

Bulls Giant Killing now makes them a big draw.

Don't the BBC usually do Double Headers for the QF or have Sky deffo got one? Agreed don't want to be playing Thurs or Friday night.

I think Bulls vs Fax/Wakey/KR are better ties for the BBC than Bulls vs Saints/Ginats/Wolves/Catalans/FC

If I remember right, last year BBC showed 2 and Sky showed 2. So if it's the same, all games are televised.

The one positive of Halifax would be a championship side guaranteed to be in the semi final draw.

Apart from that I think we are in danger of cheapening our biggest derby. We play them 4 times already.

Have you seen the fixture congestion this causes for us and fax already at this stage? With part timers it’s ridiculous. I reckon we refuse to field a side at barrow. The 1895 trophy is only there because superleague sides aren’t capable of filling Wembley on challenge cup final day.