I agree with Micheal. If you have the chance to go to your team in a final - in whatever sport - then thats the first choice over a league game of one of your other sporting fancies even if your first love is another. Finals are special.

Yeah -but he's not going to Wembley - he's talking about us re-arranging our fixture so he can watch the Carling Cup on the telly!!!

I suspect if he had tickets for Wembley, we wouldn't have even had this thread!!

I say cobblers to it!! We've done enough pandering to others for the supposed good of our sport - Saturdays to Sundays.....then Fridays! Winter to Summer!!.....they even let the beeb alter the ko time of the Challenge Cup, so they can complete the broadcast in time to cover Final Score!!

Even if all the Leigh/Liverpool fans stay in the pub/at home on the day, I still doubt that it would have that much of an effect on our attendance - I reckon the weather will be more of a factor on our gate!!! (and how we've gone on the previous week!!)

I would never even think of altering a game because of a football match myself.

Nor me,

anyway, I thought Liverpool were a big team? I didn't realise the Rumbelows Cup actually meant something to them these days.

How the mighty have fallen.

Think you're being a little harsh on Hunslet there!!

Must admit that I chose to go to Halifax away last season rather than watch Bolton in the FA Cup Semi Final....think I made the right choice there



The only others I've missed in the last 10ish years because of other sports were the aforementioned Leigh-Hull cup game in 2004 as I was in Cardiff for the Bolton-Middlesbrough Carling Cup Final (and in fairness there were hundreds of Leythers at that one), and a dead rubber NRC group game away to Celtic Crusaders in 2007 as it clashed with the Hibs vs Kilmarnock League Cup Final. Got a sneaky feeling I may have been the only Leyther at that one, mind

I'm affraid I was at the Bolton one also Matt.

Thats EXACTLY the point i was tryin to make





thank you, i like watching Cricket especially Lancs in ODCs , and i love goin to Haydock Park , but FIRST AND FORMOST ,im a LEYTHER they come first everytime and if you have to think about which to watch then as you say YOU AINT A FANATIC ,lesson OVER Matt.

As a lifelong Leigh and Liverpool supporter I've had this issue a number of times down the years and it usually comes down to the importance of the fixture.

Therefore I'm afraid I'll be watching the Carling Cup Final thanks. I don't usually go to the opening games of the Northern Rail Cup anyway to be honest.

No doubt someone will give me a load of stick for my honesty but so be it.

Kevster. Honesty and sticking to your guns are admirable traits.

That is a shocking admission

besides isn't the Carling Cup a tin pot insignificant trophy anyway with about as much appeal as the lager the company sells ?