No on cares about it except warrington fans,

Its just an incovenience for the big clubs, Saints, Wigan and Leeds.

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Typical RL fans. People wonder why the sport gets no national interest when all we do is complain ourselves about how crap everything is.

I have a copy of the book put together by Robert Gate about the '54 cup final replay, in it there are a lot of mentions to RL fans & press of the time complaining about and being concerned about waning interest in the Challenge Cup. Considering this waning interest stretches back so far I reckon crowd figures ought to have hit negative figures by now.

Free for kids, £5 for concessions and £10 for adults across the board. No free tickets rubbish, demeans the cup I think & stops the financial gains small clubs get.

The cup final used to be on the last day and the showpiece occasion of the season. It's now stuck in the middle and has been replaced by the grand final. That IMO is why interest has dropped recently.

It used to be scheduled for the backend of the season. I'm almost 100% certain (but can't be d spending time poring over historical records to prove it) that it was never explicitly scheduled to be on the last day of the season though, I think your memory has made that fact up.



Efficiently marketed by Sky. There was always a premiership playoff series involving the top few teams from the league at the end of the season, it's just that nobody cared about it unless their team was actually IN the final.



People have been saying "interest has dropped recently" for the past 13/14 years that I've been using usenet/internet forums.

It clearly needs over time to become not only a publicised event again but also rugby league's European Cup. All the same English teams but also those from the other nations of Europe. 3 French teams...waste of time. All should eventually be involved. This will clearly also help the French. For the inevitable trolls, the Heineken Cup started around 5 minutes ago. The Challenge Cup, not so.

nothing wrong with the challenge cup, maybe the rl should put the prices inc in season tickets some how.also well done warrington fantastic achievment to score over a hundred points no matter who the opposition is. just hope hull dont do the same to us.anyway ill be there supporting my team this afternoon win draw or lose.

There are two rounds of super league after the challenge cup final, hardly call that in the middle

The semi's and final are usually well attended, its only really R4 and R5 that have dire attendances

what was the attendance at Wembley last year for this 'non-even't in the RL calender? 80K+ of people who turned up because they had nothing better to do wasn't it?