York are fetching:

Tom Carr, Ben Dent+, Nat Browne, Greg Minikin+, George Elliott, Simon Brown, Jonny Presley, Craig Potter, Kris Brining, Jack Aldous, Aaron Lyons, Ed Smith, Jack Iley, Harry Carter+, Austin Bell, Luke Stenchion, Joe Picketts*, Tyler Craig+, Ash Haynes*.
* - trialists
+ - U20s

They're missing their skipper James Ford as well as Sam Scott, Jack Latus, Jack Lee, Adam Sullivan, Nathan Freer, Jack Pickles, Jason Golden, Matt Nicholson and Sam Orange and all dual-reg/loan players.

If that is the situation with York, then I was being too generous to predict a 52-12 victoire. Perhaps 72-6 might be closer to the mark?

Main thing now is to get a home game draw.

Second thing is not to draw Huddersfield, Wigan or Warrington -- the other teams would be no threat at Gilbert Brutus.

Semi finals will be at a neutral venue.

That was hard on York. Nice words on Twitter from the Dragons players in regard of York's effort, but for a multitude of reasons, a scoreline like that was almost bound to happen. I hope York come away with something positive from it and that it wasn't a wasted experience.

Next round: At home would be a huge boost.
When is the next round anyway? (he says, full well knowing that he's already online and could just look it up)

A win is a win for us at the moment.

Anyone at home in the draw at 1330 would be a result.

It seems as if nobody knows when it will be. A contact has just been on the phone to the RFL and reports that the commercial director is "in discussions" over where, when, how. In discussions? It should have been sorted months ago.

Bizarre stuff... even for RL.

Cup draw on Saturday on BBC Breakfast, "between 7 and 9am". That really the best they can do? Unspecified slot in a 2-hour period, a week after the previous round. Pathetique

indeed. I want to know who we are playing !!!

8.35am, if memory serves correctly. Not enough to rouse me from my slumbers, probably.

Hull at home, for those that missed it.

Good draw for both sides that....

if that's even possible.

Gawd, this was miles down the forum. I do think the yawning gap between rounds - and the yawning gap between the games being played and the draw being made - has helped the competition to lack almost all context. It made sense when you had one round per month leading up to the final. What happened to that idea? Anyway...

Presumably Blanctete is cup-tied, Bousquet and Pala are suspended and the injuries are as they were. Hull just in a bit of a sticky patch - competing, but finding ways to lose. Basically, I'm saying it could go either way.