As of today it's been 58 years, 4 months and 25 days since we were last crowned champions. The small matter of 21,679 days, and no fewer than 2,411 matches.

For me, it's six weeks shy of 25 years since I saw my local team in the flesh for the first time (as they beat Bramley in the John Player Trophy). 422 games later and I'm still waiting for the biggest prize.

Saturday can't come quick enough now. C'mon the Wire.

Are you going for the record of most (pointless) threads started in one day?

Don't give him anymore ideas for thread titles.

Who cares? We have won the same end of year play off competition 3 times since then, but they changed the format and hence the winners description , that is all.We still won the tournemant!
A lot of emphasis is merely being placed on the title " champions", when a vast amount of supporters don't even recognise the winners of the sky cup as the real champions, so why get so concerned about names.
We were still over the moon when we won the end of years playoffs in whatever form. At the time we didn't care about the title, just the trophy.
For me it's just over 50 years 6 months watching and I'm happy with already having witnessed us winning the biggest prize, the Challenge Cup.

Are we really all that bothered about cups anyway when we watch a team that entertains us with thrills & spills every week ? We have a bigger measure of success than teams & supporters that rely on silverware to judge their seasons....we have excitement.
We watch a team,the only team, that has never been out of the top flight of Rugby League in its lifetime & surely that is a better measure of success than a piece of silver ware .

seriously NtW, you need to consider getting out more often!
Great stats though.!!

Absolute and total poppycock. Some neanderthals might not, but the "vast amount" of supporters recognise that the team who wins tomorrow are the champions. We were not champions in 2011. Wigan were not champions last year. Ask almost anybody who was champions last year and the answer will be Leeds. Bury your head in the sand all you like. You are wrong.

It is as it is. I think this season is the one in which our team and coaching staff has fully realised that fact.

Whether we all agree with it is another matter.

Spot on, and for the two weirdos asking above "Who cares?" and "Are we really all that bothered about cups anyway?" well you two odd balls might not, but I certainly do.

Need to pinch my arm.....
What day us it today?

I want us to win every competition we enter. The GF is currently the biggest prize and I want us to win that.

There is not enough emphasis on winning the league but that's just the way it is.

Win this and the 50 years blah blah is gone.

Annoys me when people refer to Super League or the Grand Final as the "Sky Cup". For one it's not a cup, it's a title/trophy. The title of "Champions". You are not champions for winning the LLS, nor are you champions for winning the Challenge "CUP", you are champions for scoring more points than your opponents at Old Trafford in the Super League Grand Final.

POT KETTLE BLACK

Plesae feel free to rearrange and fit into a well known saying or phrase

Don't get annoyed, just re read what you have written and consider the fairness in the proposition that will see a team, hopefully ours, crowned Champions for scoring more points than an opponent in a Grand Final.

My view it would appear differs to yours, but, I won't be annoyed in the slightest if we lift the play off trophy tomorrow

How strange.

I think sky cup /trophy/shield is possibly a very apt title for the play offs considering how the whole format down to start times & playing dates are dictated by sky sports. Why, they even dictate the 27 " meaningless qualifying rounds" to the extent that people can be running round like headless chickens trying to fit work commitments in with matches because sky have intervened.

Huh? He wouldn't need to re-arrange it, that IS the saying.

I realise that and for a fleeting moment considered after I had typed it, that I might rearrange it myself but discounted that course of action on the basis that might have been unhelpful to my co correspondent

Thank you for your concern though

Some of us realise that you were just being kind to him, or then again, were you trying to confuse him?

Yeah, and being crowned champions via a playoff was around long before sky came along. Some people seem to be under the pretence that this was invented by sky, but a large portion of titles in RL's history have been decided via a playoff.

It's a tremendous occasion and gives RL another showpiece on the sporting calender. Loads of celeb fans turn up or tweet about it, it gives the game great publicity.

People who say stuff like sky cup are just deluded and clueless.

Welcome to the real world.

I don't recall hearing football fans degrading their biggest competitions in this way, their tournaments are equally affected by broadcasters.

It's finally here. Rugby League Christmas day. Come on the Wire

Get into em.

To be fair to Mr or Mrs Wirefanatic I knew I wasn't quite correct in my post but decided not to unravel it prior to hitting the send button for fear of additional confusion.

Not the most important news of the day from me Have a great day Teesside Wirefanatic and Rubberduck

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I don't think they get as many short notices changes as we do .