I'm argueing too, and I raised exactly the same point last year. In fact, I did an article for Drop Goal Rugby League on it. justarugbyfan published it for me.

But seriously though, if your trying to claim that it's only the 5 overseas players instead of 1 that's the big advantage, not the fact that the salary cap is so much bigger, I'm failing to see how your argument could be taken seriously?

how about we go back to 1895...... It aint going to happen, it's called progression and the lower level clubs should aspire to improve. The cup shouldn't be dumbed down to the level of the weakest in it. Some of the lower league teams get their own "wembley" if they get to the 4th round and get drawn against the so called glamour clubs from superleague. it is a day for their players and fans to cherish.....

Surely it's better than the rumoured 'handicap' system?

If you were a fan of a smaller club then maybe you'd realise how important the Challenge Cup is in the early rounds. If we upset a Super League club and get a payday in the last 16 or the quarters it could be the difference between a profit and loss at the end of the year financially.

And yes, I know it would make a difference, for example, Leigh played Catalans last year and ran them extremely close, would we have won that game if they could only play one of their overseas players, in my opinion yes.

Did a lot of fans not turn up because they thought it would be a massacre, yes.

Would they have turned up if we had a fighting chance, yes.

Did the fans know we wern't going to win the cup, yes.

Are Wigan fans the most spoiled, blinkered and narrow minded in the game, yes.

Get Fev as full time pros then if you want a level playing field, to isolate just one rule about the overseas quota is a red herring

How can we improve to be as good as you if we play in the same competition under different rules?



Even then you would have 5 AUSTRALIANS MORE!!!

And by the way, red herring is probably the wrong idiom to use. Doesn't make sense.

just painted my ceiling ,watching it dry now

As opposed to Leigh fans who are the games most bitter huh

Iv been going on about this for years as have many other people, they keep mentioning the lop sided scorelines in the cup, no one seems to mention on any rugby programme that there are different rules for super league clubs to Championship clubs. Super league clubs are allowed 5 overseas players and Championship clubs 1 in the same cup. It is a massive unfair advantage to super league clubs as though they need it any way, all we want is parity each club plays to the same set of rules, is this really too much to ask?

Bull crap that is there is nothing in the rules preventing us going full time is there, the fact we arnt is because we dont wish too, thats our problem, but the rules state, how many more times for fks sake that your allowed 5 us 1, it STINKS

I take it you'll also be in favour of Super League clubs entering the Northern Rail cup because by your reckoning it's a little unfair on the Super League sides who are barred from entering. How are we supposed to win it if we aren't allowed to play in it?

But the rules also state, for fks sake, that we are allowed to spend 8 times as much on players as you, if you want "equality" (in the cup ffs, whole point of the thing is you play clubs bigger/smaller than yourself) then sign another £1mil+ worth of players, or force us to play our u-21s.

Such a strange point to make.