Challenge Cup 2019

[deluded pom?]

Saints positioned well for the treble.
Aside from the slim chance of a Catalans upset in the Super League finals, I hope they get it too.
They play an excellent style of football and have been the most consistent for 2 years now.

They’re also one of the teams I dislike the most in SL (sorry Walter) because they are always in the mix for trophies. They never seem to have a bad season like Wigan, Warrington or Leeds. Tall poppy syndrome.

 

[Foreign Legion]

https://www.loverugbyleague.com/pos...-to-stop-challenge-cup-final-transport-chaos/
Judith Cummins, MP for Bradford South, has called on the Secretary of State for Transport, Chris Grayling MP, to intervene to stop the transport chaos affecting fans travelling to Wembley for the Challenge Cup Final.

The East Coast Mainline is being shut over the bank holiday weekend, and the chair of the Parliament’s rugby league group called the decision “as baffling as it is nonsensical”.

The Secretary of State for Transport responded that he understood her concerns, and that he had “asked the Rail Minister to look with Network Rail to see if any further amelioration that could be made that weekend to ease the pressure.”

Judith Cummins MP, said: “Many rugby league fans will now have to rearrange their travel plans for the Challenge Cup Final at short notice.

“It is promising that the Secretary of State recognises the problem, and that he will speak with Network Rail and the train companies to ensure this does not happen again. This may be too little, too late this year but I am hopeful that it will now not be repeated in future years.

“I will be taking this up directly with the Rail Minister to find out what is being done to help passengers across the weekend, and to discover why this baffling decision was taken in the first place.”

In a further significant development, the Transport Secretary has also committed to asking Network Rail and train franchises to “avoid some of the busiest peak weekends” for engineering works in future including the August Bank Holiday weekend.

This year will be the last year that the Challenge Cup final is held on August Bank Holiday weekend. It will move to July from 2020.

 

[deluded pom?]

https://www.loverugbyleague.com/pos...-to-stop-challenge-cup-final-transport-chaos/
Judith Cummins, MP for Bradford South, has called on the Secretary of State for Transport, Chris Grayling MP, to intervene to stop the transport chaos affecting fans travelling to Wembley for the Challenge Cup Final.

The East Coast Mainline is being shut over the bank holiday weekend, and the chair of the Parliament’s rugby league group called the decision “as baffling as it is nonsensical”.

The Secretary of State for Transport responded that he understood her concerns, and that he had “asked the Rail Minister to look with Network Rail to see if any further amelioration that could be made that weekend to ease the pressure.”

Judith Cummins MP, said: “Many rugby league fans will now have to rearrange their travel plans for the Challenge Cup Final at short notice.

“It is promising that the Secretary of State recognises the problem, and that he will speak with Network Rail and the train companies to ensure this does not happen again. This may be too little, too late this year but I am hopeful that it will now not be repeated in future years.

“I will be taking this up directly with the Rail Minister to find out what is being done to help passengers across the weekend, and to discover why this baffling decision was taken in the first place.”

In a further significant development, the Transport Secretary has also committed to asking Network Rail and train franchises to “avoid some of the busiest peak weekends” for engineering works in future including the August Bank Holiday weekend.

This year will be the last year that the Challenge Cup final is held on August Bank Holiday weekend. It will move to July from 2020.

Chris Grayling’s nickname is Chris Failing. Fecking useless.

 

[Foreign Legion]

https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/rfl-post-loss-of-327k-after-low-challenge-cup-final-crowd/

 

[adamkungl]

Imagine being an organisation whose entire bottom line depends on only popular clubs making the Cup final.

Never mind the Grand Final between 2 of the biggest clubs in the country didnt get near selling out.

 

[Perth Red]

FC lose to Wire (lol)
St’s beat a gallant Fax

 

[Stallion]

FC lose to Wire (lol)
St’s beat a gallant Fax

So will the challenge cup be a sellout at Wembley or another dissappointing look for the code? I assume St Helens and Warrington have decent support?

 

[Walter sobchak]

So will the challenge cup because sellout at Wembley or another dissappointing look for the code? I assume St Helens and Warrington have decent support?

No way will it sellout unfortunately. I’ll guess at something just over 65k

 

[Stallion]

No way will it sellout unfortunately. I’ll guess at something just over 65k

That's dissappointing. That much respected competition final should be a sellout.

 

[deluded pom?]

FC lose to Wire (lol)
St’s beat a gallant Fax

How’s your relegation battle going (again)?

 

[Perth Red]

How’s your relegation battle going (again)?

Badly (again) !

 

[Walter sobchak]

Apparently tickets are selling like hot cakes at saints and with Widnes play Sheffield in a curtain raiser we should be looking for something approaching 70k.

 

[roughyedspud]

A curtain raiser that happens after the challenge cup final

 

[southwalesrabbitoh]

If Wembley hadn't been watered on CC Final day the score would have been different, and i'm 90% sure that the Saints would have won. Was Wembley watered on May 4th 1985? I very much doubt it.

Playing rugby at soccer grounds nowadays is completely incompatible, it must stop soon. Wigan and Hull FC must build their own stadia.