Ladbrokes Challenge Cup Quarter Finals DrawThe draw for the quarter finals of the 2017 Ladbrokes Challenge Cup took place at the Halliwell-Jones Stadium in Warrington and included the remaining eight sides who made it through their sixth round ties this weekend, including the only remaining Championship side Featherstone Rovers.



The draw was broadcast live on BBC2 and across other BBC media, with the teams being drawn out by rugby league favourites Iestyn Harris and Micky Higham.

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Doesn't get better than that!

Leeds v Featherstone
Salford v Wakefield
Hull FC v Castleford
Warrington v Wigan

cracking draw

And you'll draw Salford/Wakey in the semi no doubt



Gary must have sent one of his special emails to the RFL to fix it

That's the beauty of the random nature of the cup draw... gives average sides like ours reasons to keep dreaming of a fairy tale cup run

Must've learnt from your last Semi Final win....70-0 vs London wasn't it?

Happy days.......what goes round comes round.

The question is do you want an easy semi and humiliation in the final or a hard semi defeat and your rep in place?

If Cas continue in this vein - an hopefully they will for the good of the game - then Wembley is ideally suited to their style of play.

I'd rather reach the final - in it to win it and all that. Opposition bottling it's always a possibility - and cas have previous. Not sure I buy into Powell's notion that they'll be better mentally in a similar situation as the pressure to perform'll be far greater this time. That said, neither team is guaranteed to even make the final.

You wimp!

A contradiction in terms surely

Oxymoron

Do you think Hull KR would rather have lost valiantly in the semi than the non-event that was the final?

Conveniently writing off the current challenge cup holders I see .

True, they lost to Hull away a few weeks ago. Decent chance we aren't even discussing Castleford when the semi final draw is made.

Surely getting to the final is the current aim. Wining it, the ultimate aim. Cas have to play FC yet. I'd rather play Fev at the moment.

Ill take the winner of Wire vs Wigan for our semi, dont want either of those at Wembeley but both beatable in a semi

few weeks back I happened, by chance, to bump into Darryl powell in a pub near York.
talking RL I said cas were playing some great stuff but the crunch would come when they had high pressure games later in the year when they had to grind out wins. I wondered if they could adapt.
he grinned and said he agreed and said he hoped they would.

thing is you don't win anything in may sal.

the side with the least key injuries will win it for me

I hoped for anyone but castleford and a tough draw for them. They are the team to beat st the moment and the one to avoid in the cup, sadly can't avoid them next week.

The side that can perform on the day will win it - how many times have Leeds failed to really show up in final - losing 6 winnable finals suggests it isn't about injuries.

did cas turn up against leeds? will cas beat hull even?
i'm confident if we get there we'll give anyone a game

Me too, but for now I'm looking forward to taking on our DR partners in the quarter final, and I'm sure we'll be giving them 100% respect.

(I'm a Fev fan, btw)

Not at all - but if Cas continue to perform at this level then it is difficult to see anyone getting close. What Cas have is the ability to score so defence is less of an issue than it would be to likes of Leeds who don't have the attacking prowess.

Hull are a great side who I think are more of a GF side than a CC side. The CC is a bit of fluff compared to the GF where all teams get their serious head on - you only need to view the Rhinos records in both competitions during the golden generation era.