RG are you getting your excuses / it doesn't matter because........ in early?

Of course it matters, it's a final, BUT winning the Challenge Cup will certainly soften the blow should we lose. It's a big game for us, but it's a massive game for you.

Oh does the Challenge cup matter this year?

It ALWAYS has mattered. It's still the biggest day in the RL calendar, and the one that brings the money in.
It's only Sky who have decided that the play off is the big one, basically because it's not their gig.

Oh yeah? Well thats not the version which will be sang all day in Manchester.

Good to hear. Shame it hasn't mattered to a lot of Wigan fans in 2009,10 & 12.

You on a fishing trip there , only a big game for Wigan but massive for Wire , lets hope the players see it this way

Not according to Gary Hetherington, and he should know. He's stated previously that the Grand Final brings more money in, through shirt & merchandise sales leading upto the event, and after due to the 'good feeling' created especially in the run up to Christmas. Plus, as the biggest & last game of the year season ticket sales are boosted.

Sounds to me like your trying to play it down because you're not very confident and you're trying to get a come back in to preempt a loss!

At the shareholders meeting a few years ago Ian Lenagan said that the Challenge Cup final generates more revenue than the Grand Final and that's what I was basing my information on as I was there. Where did you see the Heatherington quote?

Rogues seems to have misheard the song.

Are Liverpool still considered a big club in football?

we have won 3 cc in 4 years, the cup is a big deal in Rl, a lot bigger than in football. We aren't as big as say a Wigan but definitely one THE biggest.

I'll look back to try and find it. He's said it on a couple of occasions.
Don't forget, the winners of the GF also get to take part in the World Club Challenge - another money generator!

Couldn't give a stiff one, really, about how long it's been since we last won the league. It's a statistic that means #### all to anybody but trivia people, and to media types who have to "churn up" such drivel, just to fill up their product. IT'S IRRELEVANT.

What matters is 17 Wire players (and coaching staff) ensuring they score more points than Wigan, not Eddie Hemmings doing his best John Motson/Allan Parry impression, telling all and sundry that we haven't won the league since around the time rationing stopped after WWII.

Lower league clubs such as Oldham, Swinton, Halifax, Featherstone, Dewsbury and Leigh have all won the league since we last won it. Are these clubs bigger than ours? I very much doubt it.

This match is about 2 clubs trying to win the league, not about a quiz question.

What? Of course they are.



Maybe the League Cup yeah, but the FA Cup is still big time in football.

In a way I think he's right. It is a massive game for us.