As I used to say to my lad when he was about ten years old, once is funny, twice is a little bit funny, but three times is !!@&&!!"::!!

ok joke over, hope all you guys have a safe trip and its a great game, as long as we win lol

Growing up it was all about the Challenge Cup and in my heart it's still the one for me but the Sky Sports trophy is now the biggest trophy on offer and is the one everyone wants. 3 teams still have a very realistic chance of both, you would say that between those 3 teams both trophies will be won. I have a feeling we will be the bridesmaids again though. I think Warrington will win the Challenge cup and then Hull will beat them in the Grand Final. I am more than happy to be wrong though.

I genuinely believe we could have won the double this year if only we could have had some luck with injuries but it's slowly killing us. I think we'll give it a crack but go down gallantly tomorrow before limping through the rest of the year. We'll get a semi final spot in the play offs and we'll have to see where we're up to them in terms of absentees. We may have more back by then by how match fit some of them will be is questionable.

The trolls may jump on this line but if we had a reasonably full strength squad to choose from I believe we're the best side in the league.

GF all day long. Wembley is great but so is old trafford

Was always the cup for me especially as a kid in the 80's...

Nowadays the cup is treated like Sh1t.

Moving it to August was a joke,

Mid Spring was perfect and still would be as fans are still in the good mood for the new season.

British RL is being destroyed by the people who claim to have it's best interests at heart.

cant argue with any of that

On the plus side for the big 3 sides at the top of the league and in the cup semis is the fact that at least two sides are likely to be equally drained come the GF. Whilst the cup final itself was a walkover last year, Leeds had a pre- and post-cup hangover which nearly cost us the LLS. Wigan and Sts were able to focus just on the league over that period. If you face Wire in the cup final, win or lose it will impact both sides.

1 Trophy has now gone so we urgently need to re focus and aim for the LL Shield or 2nd place at least and ensure a home semi final

Both Hull FC and Wolves will suffer both pre and post Wembley hangovers irrespective of the result so we should be able to overtake those 2 sides during the next 7 games and finish above them both in the table

Sounds like a good plan but I may have discovered a flaw in it.

We can't score more than 20pts, against anyone

It's hard to take but we lost to a better side. There are positives that we can take and tunnel vision to the GF is one of them. Another one is that we play Saints the week before the challenge cup final and we have absolutely nothing to make us take our eye off that one now. We need a really good start in Spuer 8's starting this week with Wakey. Put a few demons to bed, rattle up a score and move on. We'll get a few bodies back and hopefully play some better rugby.

I think warrington will win the CC final. Wigan should profit from hull and warrington in the CC final and finish top. Then I think wigan will toil their way to victory over saints/hull in the semi but lose the grand final to warrington.

Dreamland. Winning the double with a Grand Final victory against Wigan.

Well Leeds won the treble last year including a grand final victory over wigan, so these dreamland type scenarios have been known to happen.