Ok of course first priority is top 8 and SL status for next year, but before I die (only 45 I know but the years soon pass!) I really, really be over the moon if we actually got to the Challenge Cup Final, please can the Rugby ‘god’s’ smile on us this year. 50 years on from the watersplash Final, it’s a omen right??

On our way in 1968 we played Huddersfield another omen.

Twice.

Hope we play better than we did in the league last year. They are a bit of a bogey team for us and we don’t seem to win there too often

I know that you're right but, IF we are hoping to get to Wembley, there will be far bigger hurdles than Huddersfield to overcome.
Mind you, one game at a time.
Yesterdays result will give the boys a huge lift going into the Shudds game, let's hope we make it into the hat for the next round.

Come on Trin !

I so hope we make a final soon- ever since I took my dad to a wakey game we have always said if they ever make the final we would flyover! could it be this year/

As much as I'd like to get to the Grand Final, I'd happily swap a gloomy Autumn evening in grim Manchester for a sunny weekend in the capital.

Wembley every time for me, above the Grand Final.
I've already got our tickets for Wembley 2018 but would gladly give them away and repurchase alternatives in the "Wakefield End" if we got there.

Wembley over the Grand Final any day!

Calling all Trinity fans, to get off your backsides on Friday and make the short journey over to Shudds.
It's only £15 a ticket and chance to "help" Trinity get into the quarter finals.

So in the words of Delia Smith, Lets be having you !

I've totally given up any hope of us reaching Wembley.

In thirty years I'm yet to see a Trinity team really want this cup, why I don't know.

They all talk the talk but not once have I seen what I can truly describe a full blooded cup performance, not one single game.

I actually believe that in 2004 we were far closer to a GF place than we have ever been to a CCup during the SL era. Even in 2008 we blew it, we were against a Hull team who themselves looked lack lustre yet at no point in that 80 minutes die we ever look like winning it - I know it was close on the scoreboard but for me the players never seemed willing or able to step forward.

2015 was just tragic but to be fair not unexpected, the rest of our CCup exploits have been beyond pathetic on occasions and have often been in total contrast to our dogged and determined league form through the years. Most of out last ditch relegation games have been far gutsier and better to watch than any of our Cup games, why they can'y replicate that level of desire and intensity remains a mystery.

Put simply and I have no idea why but for some reason our team is NEVER really up for it imho. I can't see any reason why that will change this year, I see us choking almost straight away.

Perversely if we make top 8 I see us doing well in the super eights.

Seems weird at a club renowned more as cup kings than title winners but the stats bare it out.

I agree with all of that, apart from 2008, against Hull.
We were absolutely awful for the first 15 mins of the game, with Peterson? unable to cope with the kicks to his wing.
However, if they had played for another 10 minutes, we'd have won the game.
Hull were out on their feet and we were finishing strongly but, we had just given ourselves too much to do.
You cant give any team 3 scores start in a semi final and hope to win.

IF we can gather some momentum and get a couple of favourable draws, we COULD get there (to Wembley) and right now, the dream is very much alive, at least until Friday