There would be no difference in losing a tomkins for a season in CC game against Barrow than in super league game against Crusaders.
You'd be equally as gutted either way.

Imagine you lose him in the massively hyped brilliantly produced tv extravaganza that is the Exiles game!!!!!!

Pointless,ridicilous, waste of time, no one is interested would be just some of the phrases banded about.

Like it or not the Challenge cup made Wigan famous if you lot can't respect it who can?

There are so many wembley finals that people still talk about......who even remembers probably the tightest league finish in 1994??
And regardless of the level of achievment the Grand final is still a wet winters night out in Salford.

I love it ..id take a 3rd Cup over a grand final win no problem.

As Leyther Matt said on this thread everyone at the LSV on Friday enjoyed the magic of the cup playing and running arguably the in form SL club Catalans so close, only 6 points in it, now i do think it is a bit different for us as to us it was a big game, were as for Wigan to play a championship side it isn't much of a spectacle, so what i am getting at is it's all about opinions and the size of the club you support, all in my opinion of course. Good luck for the rest of the season.

Before SL, the C Cup was in May, at the end of the normal games. It finished a season of nicely, and then there were the play offs, cant remember now if it was the top 4, 6, or 8, but if you had won the league and then the C Cup you wernt interested in the play offs. Now we copy the Aussies in making the play offs the main event. That now takes the end of season away from the C Cup. To me winning the league is a great achievement and should carry more prestige, but I dont want to lose any of the competitions except for the pointless game we call the Magic Weekend.

The best part was when the commentator joked "Some of you will have recorded this game, and what a game it has been! Well we're changing channels at half time, tough luck to those that haven't set their tv to record (the switch over)".

I was incredulous.

Oh and the cup hasn't lost it's romance. The SL clubs have pulled away from everyone else - when the SL clubs are tonking the non-SL clubs 82-0, what's the point?

Ok then

warrington 60 - Salford 0
Warrington 64 - Crusaders 6
Warrington 82 - Harlequinns 6

Whats the point of the league ....we could finish with the best attack and the best defence and not even feature in this play off final thing

indeed if I wanted to be cheeky Warrington beat Wigan by a bigger margin than Huddersfield beat Batley...that to me says the cup is more of a contest than Superleague....

I like an idea i read on the VT, i think it was Starbug.

The quota rules limit the lower league clubs so why not have a rule stating that if a SL club plays a non SL club then they can only field one overseas player.

Granted a lot of SL teams will still have a superior squad (except HKA) but it helps out the lower leagues slightly.

I'd rather win the GF but i just love rugby, so the CC hasn't lost any romance for me.

Why do you day that Matt? Has Red Hall predetermined the fixtures that far ahead?

You've also lost to Hull, Huddersfield, and Catalan in the last 6 weeks.

Those were freak results against teams that clearly gave up. The early challenge cup rounds are only going one way. They're pointless exercises.

A very good point !

It's quite simple.

The GF is now THE showpiece event for RL.

Previously it used to be the CC final.

End of.

The gulf in class between Super League and the NL1 is too great, making it effectively a mid season version of the play offs. Too much hassle

85.217.... Attendance for the 2010 CC final

It's quite simple

The CC final is THE showpiece event for RL

That's partly down to Wembley being bigger than OT

The rounds leading up to it certainly arent though.

Like Quins v Crusaders you mean?

Every league game leads up to the GF.