Quote Asgardian13="Asgardian13"Winning the GF is the bigger achievement. The winners are worthy champions and can rightly claim to have been the best team of the 27 rounds. Although, technically, the team finsishing 8th in the league could become GF winners, in practice only once has a side finishing outside the top two actually won it. So the finalists, and the winners, have been a pretty close reflection of the season as a whole. This was certainly true this year. As a Wire, fan, I don't think we can call ourselves the best until we've won a GF. However, winning back-to-back CCs has rarely been done and is certainly a major acheivement. The Pies are worthy champions in 2010 but let's hope that not many of their fans refer to the 8 cups they 'bought' through the 80s/90s. That was a much of an acheivement as Hicks and Gillette 'winning' Liverpool Association Football Club.'"
More teams have won back to back challenge cups than have won SL. I know you think its some massive achievement to win a knock out cup against semi pro teams but the likes of Hudds, Cas, Wakefield and Batley have already been there done that.
