The Leeds fans are voting with their feet. They aren’t happy with the state of their club and want to send a message. Compare that to the fans of super leagues perennial losers, Warrington who still turn up and contribute to Warringtons social media fund.

That’s why Leeds are multiple SL winners and Warrington have never come close

Great username champ, obsessed much?

Will be interesting what the attendance will be next week when the Saints turn up. Don't think the comment by JJB helped in saying "it might take weeks or months or years to dig us out of the hole" (bomb crater).

Talking about bomb craters what have they done to that pitch, use to be like a cricket pitch like next door many years ago now its like a patchwork grassy quilt.

On another note Jamie Peacock looked very agitated at half time and full time discussions, I felt he was going to say that he was putting his boots back on to show them what’s needed.

Complete tripe.
Your obsession with Warrington is bizarre.

He’s a real strange one isn’t he….

Everyone fed the troll

Did Warrington count todays crowd after the bomb scare or before ?

Fans have had enough with the changes to the game, and the officials are getting poorer, also Wire aren't breaking any pots atm, so it all adds up to making a decision whether to attend games. I get my fill by watching NRL which is a different animal altogether.

What is it you're saying about Wire fans ?

A very poor attendance yesterday, which is a pity, as they missed a good game

And yet was the highest attendance of the round.


IMO, the issue is that the Super League teams are entering the cup too late, so just end up with a potential 4th game against someone the fans are just bored of seeing them play.

It's fair to say that, with all the emphasis on the GF, the Challenge Cup has lost most of it's sparkle.
Although keeping the SL clubs away from the comp until the latter stages may help with fixture congestion, it completely ruins the chances of any smaller clubs reaching the finals.
IF a Championship club can make it into the last 8, they are likely to face one of the current top 8 into SL.
Zero chance of an "easy" run to Wembley and the cup is almost an additional play off comp, rather than a "romantic" run to Wembley (or Tottenham).

The Championship sides that competed over the weekend deserve huge, huge credit for not saving themselves for their league competition, with cup progress being "impossible".

Fev gave Catalan a huge scare and on Catalans home patch, a phenomenal effort.

Completely agree Wrencat. The Challenge Cup’s been devalued by not having the SL teams come in until the Round of 16. The early rounds should involve Community clubs and League 1 with the Championship and SL clubs coming in at 32 teams. OK there might be some mullerings but there’d be some surprises as well and it would make “The Road to Wembley (or wherever we’re playing the Final)” more in interesting and open. The empty stands at Headingley, Wigan and Warrington should be enough to tell the RFL it ain’t working. Hopefully we can buck the trend v Wigan and BV’s packed out.

The super league clubs simply MUST come in earlier. Saints took a decent following to Whitehaven, including a lad I know who hasn't attended 1 single super league match yet this season. I'd be more inclined to go and watch wire if we were drawn away at somewhere like Barrow, York, Newcastle etc.

Agreed, there is a novelty value in going somewhere new / different and although attendances are dropping in the cup, at least some of the smaller clubs would have a chance of drawing in some new faces, Barrow, yesterday, being a good example.

We’d probably lose though! Lolz

2600 lol. That is embarassing. Did wakefield take many fans?

The attendance is hardly surprising with the quality of rugby on show . You really do wonder where the game is going watching that as tv worth material . It must be a nightmare as a commentator or pundit trying to sound positive .

I take it you didn't go yourself then

He's a Saint's "fan" on the wind up who, despite his name, takes great pleasure in any Warrington problems.

Luckily Whitehaven and Barrow provided TV worth material and both clubs had attendances higher than the Warrington fickle fanbase.

This would seem to be a clear endorsement for getting the SL clubs into the comp in the previous round.

There are issues regarding the number of fixtures etc but, the Challenge Cup certainly needs a boost.
Since the introduction of the playoffs and Grand Final, the cup has gone from being an end of season highlight and turned into a second rate competition squeezed in between the regular weekly rounds of Super League and there can only ever be one event to close out the season.

However, it could certainly do with a lift and although we do now have some FTA games on Channel 4, which have been excellent, the Cup still remains the No 1 comp for allowing the masses to see "the greatest game" and for this reason, it does need to sparkle.

Nah he's a pretend saints fan with little interest in the game

, that's why he's got so many user names, he also takes perverted pleasure in any Wakey, leigh, Salford, and Wire problems as well as any other club that's in his line of fire, with his intelligence he'd struggle to wind a clock up

Got great broadband in his mum’s bedroom though

I don’t take pleasure at all. Wakefield and Salford offer absolutely zero to super league and the bigger picture. That’s not taking pleasure. It’s being honest. They could be replaced by fev and Leigh and super league would be a better place. One is about to get evicted from their stadium and the other has had 10 years to sort theirs out after promising they would just to get a licence. As for Warrington I’m critical because they are the Everton of super league. So badly run but could be a massive club. As long as they get a few hundred likes on tik tok, they are happy. Their ceo was all over the media, loving the attention he was getting because of some mess up of bringing the ball onto the pitch. It’s embarassing. With their resources Warrington should be challenging every year. They should be the club that makes the big 2 of Saints and Wigan into the big 3 but for some reason , their priority is social media Instead of super league

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