8-9 Feb: Coral Challenge Cup Third Round Match Thread

[John Drake]

Discuss all this weekend's Coral Challenge Cup Third Round ties here.

SATURDAY 8TH FEBRUARY
British Army v Ince Rose Bridge KO 2.15pm
Leigh Miners Rangers v Bentley KO 2.30pm
Rochdale Mayfield v North Wales Crusaders KO 12.30pm
Siddal v West Hull KO 2pm
Thornhill Trojans v Doncaster KO 2pm at Tetley's Stadium, Dewsbury

SUNDAY 9th FEBRUARY
Barrow Raiders v London Skolars KO 3pm
Hunslet v Coventry Bears KO 3pm
Keighley Cougars v Newcastle Thunder KO 3pm
Rochdale Hornets v York Acorn KO 3pm
West Wales Raiders v Underbank Rangers KO 2pm
Workington Town v West Bowling KO 2pm

[Hopping Mad]

Looking at attending the Keighley-Newcastle tie. Pick of the round? Perhaps too close to call.

My winners are IRB, LMR, NWC, Siddal, Doncaster, Barrow, Huns, Keighley, Hornets, Underbank, Town.

[Chronicler of Chiswick]

Barrow, Hunslet and Newcastle in the all semi-pro games, don't know enough about the amateur game to guess the others, although West Wales could well go out.

[FearNothing]

Look, after last year, we're GOING to win!!

 

....he says hopefully 

[Thunder fan]

looking forward to our game v keighley, should be a great game.

[Rob Nash]

23 hours ago, Hopping Mad said:

Looking at attending the Keighley-Newcastle tie. Pick of the round? Perhaps too close to call.

My winners are IRB, LMR, NWC, Siddal, Doncaster, Barrow, Huns, Keighley, Hornets, Underbank, Town.

Agree all of that. West Wales lack of preparation is staggering!

[Bleep1673]

I think a lot of Championship 2 sides might come a cropper, as they haven't played a lot of hungry sides. 

[EssexRL]

I don’t rate our chances at Barrow. 

[JonM]

Mayfield vs NW Crusaders is the BBC game.

Barrow v Skolars is the OurLeague fixture

[JonM]

14 hours ago, EssexRL said:

I don’t rate our chances at Barrow. 

Can't see Barrow losing at home (or away) very often this season.

[Hullfan]

West hull win easy for me, siddal no were near the team they once was 

[Swansea Jack]

On 05/02/2020 at 11:50, Rob Nash said:

Agree all of that. West Wales lack of preparation is staggering!

Please explain.

[Chronicler of Chiswick]

Looking at the weather forecast, I'm glad that the Cru are playing today - might be some postponements tomorrow.

[Rob Nash]

Ok. Perhaps I'm overstating it. I just feel that only publicly naming 10 players ahead of the first game and no friendlies may appear (to some) to be a lack of preparation. No offense intended.

[Futtocks]

Mayfield are giving it a good go, but a Cup upset doesn't look very likely at the moment.

RMF 0:10 NWC

[JonM]

Crusaders pretty dominant throughout, some really nice individual bits of play. Bit more composure near the line would've got them a much bigger HT lead than 0-16.

[The Hallucinating Goose]

Good game so far, Mayfield giving it a good go, making some good metres at times, looking pretty good going forward. Crusaders making quite a lot of mistakes close to the line, would have been much further ahead otherwise. 

[Eddie]

Looks like a good crowd there too, and some away fans. Not that I have any idea how many Mayfield usually get to their games, or how many fans NWC take to away games. 

[EssexRL]

1 minute ago, Eddie said:

Looks like a good crowd there too, and some away fans. Not that I have any idea how many Mayfield usually get to their games, or how many fans NWC take to away games. 

Cru normally have at least a coach worth. Amazing support for L1. They seem well in control of this game. 

[Futtocks]

Mayfield in!

[JonM]

1 minute ago, EssexRL said:

Cru normally have at least a coach worth. Amazing support for L1. They seem well in control of this game. 

Yes, one of the best away followings In L1.

[JonM]

Nice to see a second-rower with the pace to go the length of the field for a try...

[JonM]

I believe that's Cru's record high score. Think they'll do well in L1 this year.

[The Hallucinating Goose]

Now onto Army v Ince Rose, great afternoon of rugby league! 

[Moonshine]

Thornhill 12 - Doncaster 6