Assuming they split the gate receipts, playing in Perpignan may not be too bad.
Catalan, despite their abysmal form, manage to get decent crowds and The French may just enjoy some Challenge Cup action.
Dont know what crowd they will pull but, maybe 6500 ?? which, apart from KR v Wigan and Cas v Saints, will probably be the next highest crowd.

You won't get very good odds on that mate.

Young York are a far different proposition to woeful Whitehaven. The York men are in contention for promotion to the Championship in 2019. Whitehaven is a dreary Cumbrian outpost with no future promotion foreseeable.

Woeful Whitehaven would have had no chance even if the match had been held at Whitehaven.

Because I believe that Catalans will be much, much too strong for a 3rd division club, especially with the arrival of Joshua Drinkwater.

You should be a detective.


The reality is, calamitous Catalans would be heading out of the cup had they draw a top flight side .

You referred to him as Josh earlier .... . That’s the thing with different accounts you need to be on the ball all the time .

They may be drawn at home next round.

Well, I could see a SL team protesting vigorously, if they had to trek over to Toronto in the thick of the SL season. For example, Warrington are at Wigan, the weekend after this CC round. They probably wouldn't have been thrilled to spend the weekend before, in Canada, and then heading home when they should be preparing for their visit to the DW.

Oh, and one other thing - Toronto's ground/pitch improvements are only scheduled to be completed at the end of June!

Toronto had to agree to play all cup games away for (IIRC) the first three years. I believe this is likely more to do with non SL clubs and their ability to fund trips to Canada at short notice than any inconvenience of a short turnaround. With Toronto starting in League 1 they were always going to come up against semi pro and amateur teams in the early rounds due to the format of the cup. The likes of Siddal, the first team to play Toronto in the cup, for example could not be expected to travel to Canada to play a cup match. Add to that the difficulty of semi pro or amateur players getting the time off work at short notice for such a trip. For the time being it makes sense to make them play cup games over here.

Should they become established in SL by the end of that 3 year period then I would hope that they will be allowed to play at home in the cup, though they may still have to concede home advantage if drawn against part time opponents.

Jean, why do you persist with your pathetic denigration of teams you hold in contempt just because they don’t fit your dream scenario.
You really are the saddest person I have come across on social media and there must be a prize for your accurate impression of an harris hole.
The mods won’t bin you so it is up to the other members to do it individually.
I will block you after you have sufficient time to read it in all your identities and time zones.

Its just Josh, not Joshua.

At least do a little research before trying to look clever

TV games announced.

Thurs 10th - Featherstone v Hull FC (Sky),
Fri 11th - Leigh v Salford (Sky),
Sat 12th - Cas v Saints (BBC),
Sunday 13th - Warrington v Toronto (BBC).

Sunday afternoon is prime time for rugby league on the bbc. They have obviously decided the Toronto game is the tie of the round.

Yeah right,that's why the CC final is on a Saturday Jean.

The BBC have decided to put on Wolves v Wolves on the final day of the Premier League season and the pseudo frenchman thinks this shows that they believe it will attract a bigger audience than Castleford v Saints on the Saturday with very little other sports available......

Oh look. Another wannabe internet tough guy that the mods will do nothing about. Tip for you, acting hard on the internet is so 1999

Regards

King James

You are Prince and I claim my fiver.

Excellent exposure there for the Championship, with all three remaining clubs being televised. Hopefully, they will all put on a good show.

If he did leave, these boards would be dead.

Thats all fine and you are entitled to your opinion of course. However its clear that Catalans aren't everyone's second team anymore and the club and its fans need to be a bit more humble, especially in our position.

Just my opinion of course.

Indeed, we just need them to compete with their more lofty opposition or "we" will be scoring a televised own goal for RL.
We all enjoy an upset in the cup and Leigh have the best chance out of the three remaining Championship clubs, to cause one.

If you can get plenty of support at the LSV then, maybe it could happen ?

I’m very confident more people will watch the Sunday game than the Saturday game.

I look forward to the statistics proving you wrong yet again Gutterfacts.

Prior to Salford's result last night, I would have thought they would have too much for Leigh, but maybe there is a chance after all? Whilst Toronto have been struggling a bit lately, they don't know how to lose and I'm sure they'll have a real dig at Warrington, and Hull don't want to be complacent at Featherstone. I would love all three Championship teams to win (plus Whitehaven) but have to admit that's unlikely!