Chairman's Update | Andy Mazey

[HornyHornyHorneeet]

 

[Excolt 1]

Good news about the changes to next years Challenge Cup for teams like Hornets. Wigan at Spotland in January, you heard it here first

[Anita Bath]

 its the draw in January with the games in February. 35 teams in the three divisions so some non SL teams will have to play in round 1 with community clubs to leave 32 clubs for round 2. With 26 teams in the top two divisions I am guessing it will be league 1 teams left to fight out for the remaining 6 spots with all championship teams entering at round 2.

[Anita Bath]

I missed the full announcement…round 2 is 13 championship and 11 league 1 teams entering to join ncl/community teams emerging from round 1. That will produce 20 winners to join 12 super-league teams. So we will have to win one game to have the chance of playing Wigans A team.

 

Interesting that league 1 will be 11 teams next season. Another season of bye weeks. Lets hopewe are not part of it.

[Joe 90]

Some commonsense from the Rugby League at last ! And a real statement of intent from the Chairman.

[Anita Bath]

a move in the right direction but I would prefer an open draw….likely would lead to more super league clubs being knocked out early and lower clubs a better chance of progression.

[Excolt 1]

No non superleague club will ever get to the Challenge Cup final that’s why the 1895 cup was invented so  lower clubs can add to the final attendance.