It seems that York are throwing everything they have into trying to cause and upset in The Challenge Cup for the visit of the out of sorts Catalan Dragons.
What chance of an upset in this one or, the other fixtures:

Widnes v Coventry
Warrington v Bradford
Barrow v Toronto
Leigh v London
Whitehaven v Rochdale
Oldham v Hull KR
Doncaster v Featherstone
York v Catalans

Leigh v London looks like another great match up and Barrow v Toronto may just cause an upset ?

I think Whitehaven probably have the best chance of upsetting the odds. As woeful as Catalans have generally been I can't see them losing to York. Barrow have drawn with Toronto at Craven Park already but their priority is surely to stay up so I doubt they will throw as much at winning this as they did in the league. Toronto will likely want to progress more and to test themselves against SL opponents prior to the split.

Widnes, Warrington, Toronto, Leigh, Whitehaven, Hull KR, Featherstone and Catalans will go through IMO

York have nothing to lose, Catalan seem to be comfortable being the losing side.

York for me.

Catalans have improved last 2 games, think they'll win but not easily.
Wouldn't be a shock if London beat us, just a surprise (on recent form)
Most chance of a surprise win, would be Whitehaven.

Catalans will put 40 and more past York IMO.
fingers crossed London to beat Leigh in a tight game
Barrow will put up a brave fight but Toronto to come out winners
'Haven Rochdale could go either way.
rest [ishould[/i be comfortable wins for Warrington/HKR/Widnes/Fev

Sure, we can then continue to concentrate on the top 4 whilst London continue to decline thinking about CC games.

Catalan had looked to be improving but, their 41 0 reverse at Cas was their heaviest defeat of the season and they are yet to win over here this season.

Of course they should beat York but, IF York can get their noses in front, Catalan discipline is very suspect and the wheels could come off ?

As a Bronco thats how I see it. On current form and with a thin squad the last thing we need is more matches. We have Leigh in a couple of weeks at home thats the one we need to win!

If York went a couple of scores up, which is more than possible in a cup game, Catalan will definitely lose their bottle and start getting penalised for their ill discipline.

Yep, the game in 2 weeks is the big one.

HKR are putting a weakened team out against oldham - be interesting to see the 19 today. With our disastrous week its worth a fiver of anybodies money on oldham, especially with the history of them beating us a couple of years a go

Get out of here.
Whatever side KR piut out, it should be more than capable of beating a mid table league 1 side.
If you cant beat them, I would lock the gates and put a for sale sign up.

I agree, however replacing 11/12 first teamers things like this can happen from time to time. We couldn't beat them two years ago even when we were putting 50 points on you guys!!

York are of a standard of an amateur team. Like, not Siddal level, but a division below them so Catalans will muller them

Regards

King James

.....yet managed to beat Swinton in the last round, and have won 5 from 6 in League 1 (the loss being by only 2 points to Bradford). I agree Catalans will muller them, but your criticism is OTT. They would finish top of NCL Prem if they were in it.

You really dont know rugby league beyond st helens do you ? York have assembled a quality side for league 1 and I fancy them to go up. They've been getting better crowds than some championship sides and have a few players who could do a job a league up.

Catalans are taking them seriously as they've named a strong side.

I hope york win.

I need to take issue with this post and should report you to the mods.
"You really dont know rugby league beyond st helens do you ? "
You dare to imply that "King James" actually knows about St Helens



The one thing he knows is, rock all, about rock all, he even thinks of himself as royalty

Queen James is just a 'wind up' merchant, he 'gets off' on folk reacting to it's posts.....Zzzzzzzzz

What tickles me is burger king James thinks Catalan is quality side.

I don’t think they would. But Thankyou for your reasoned reply to my post without the need to throw personal insults my way for having a different opinion. You should post here more often.

Regards

King James

Come on York !
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