We moaned about how Nu Brown was used at Hull, today he played prop for St George reserves.

What a joke the officials have made of the final already with the sin binning of Cooper and now Duffy and not even hit 5 mins

Joke of a start to this final.
I can see the reasoning behind the Cooper one (but still think it was harsh) but the Dufty yellow is an embarrassment. First contact was on Marshall's arms which were at chest level then just slid up the the head. Wasn't a swinging arm or with any force, he just had his arm out. Even in a weekly SL game that doesn't get penalised half the time and likely only did because Wigan kicked off and forced the whistle to be blown.

What you expect from the most arrogant ref going…turns everything into the Chris Kendall show,I wouldn’t have him reffing west hulls u-8s 5th team let alone a major match

Kendall is an amateur, this is the big advert for the game and he kills it at the start. Worse than Ganson.

Warrington not building anything here, just wild stabs in the dark.

I think it's time we moved the CC final to a smaller ground. It's not even close to full and it makes the competition and the sport look pathetic.
I'd say it looks like about 60k there.

I'm not even going to get into those 'yellow cards'

Wire should have stuck with the same team as last week. Really disappointing display so far from them.

Really dull final, Wigan just doing what Wigan do, doing the basics very well and grinding Wire down. Agree the final needs to be moved, either to Tottenham if we want to keep it in London or Etihad if it moves up north. The days of neutrals coming en mass to watch finals are over, and rugby league can't fill a 90k stadium by relying on two sets of fanbases (regardless of who they are) to fill it.

Looks like Wigan are defending with20 players. There not giving Wire an inch.

65,000

Arsenal or Spurs would be much better both circa 60k capacity.

Emirates was a good venue when I went for the WC semi in 2022. Annoyingly the challenge cup was another area IMG wanted to reform but the clubs said no and we're in the situation we're in.

Wire made our 2013 cup final performance look half decent

Not a bad larker that Sneyd at Salford.

Germany v Scotland, unfortunately they can't both lose