What about making the CC competition a handicap format? ie the team that finishes the last superleague season top starts every cc round with one point and the team that finishes bottom of championship 1 starts with 35 points and so on. We used the same system in Amateur RL and it gave the lower teams a better chance / incentive and stopped big clubs fielding weaker teams.

Its funny how the challenge cup loses its romance once you don't make many finals, how long is it now since you last appeared at wembley ? How long is it since you last lifted the challenge cup at wembley ?

You can bet your last £ that if Wigan had been appearing in any of the recent finals at wembley then the challenge cup wouldn't have lost any of its romance.

This thread comes across as a thinly veiled attempt to big up your grand final win and to put the challenge cup down as a cup thats not worth winning these days.

Very funny, i could belittle your grand final win by saying that it was one of the best oppertunities for a long time for a team outside of the usual names to get to a grand final due to St Helens being in regression and having no half backs at the time, you then had both Leeds and Warrington having the fatigue factor after the challenge cup final but i won't go down that road and say that the grand final lost some of its romance that year due to the above.

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such a poor attempt!

just cos u get knowhere in it anymore

Another reason for you not to go down that road would be that it's completely irrelevant to the thread.