According to Twitter, the draw will take place at 8.35 on Saturday morning and will be drawn by the BBC Breakfast presenters.

Looking forward to the postings of twitter account RL Meltdown.

It's an utter farce

That's a pretty decent spot actually

You mean Bill Turnbull's trousers will fall down as he makes the first draw, just as the vicar comes in?

After the effort by 5 live and Bacon last time around, anything will be a improvement. Also last Saturday on BBC Breakfast there was not one mention of the Challenge Cup.

IMO the draw should have taken place straight after the Huddersfield v Leeds game live on the beeb.

That would have been tricky given that there were some more Challenge Cup matches taking place on the Sunday.

It could be said that all Challenge Cup matches should be played by the time the televised game takes place but then that would detract from the televised game.

So the draw is:

Live on national television
Conducted by two experienced, serious broadcasters
At a fixed time in their programme.

Let the ridiculous whining commence...

I hope it's Susanna Reid doing the draw !!!

I wish she was holding my balls on Saturday morning

is it going to run into the start of 'Going Live' ? ...would hate to miss the start of that !

Exactly, but the RFL will still c0ck it up. Complete disgrace.
We had the opportunity to make the draw straight after the last round, live on the Challenge Cup website to 17 die hard fans but no, the geniuses at the RFL decided to get it done live on BBC1 to over a million viewers.
These incompetent fools are ruining the sport.

Are your balls numbered and contained in a velvet, drawstring bag?

At 8.35 a.m. on Saturday yours truly will be on trolley pushing duty in Tescos, so by the time I get back they'll just about have worked out how to do it.