100% agree Neil. IMO we need more games live on free to watch TV. It amazing how many people from random areas of the country fall in love with the game when watching a game by chance on the BBC. Its a bad day of that does happen and we could stop our game from expanding further

For me this is why the challenge cup suffers, people get excited about it and then all of a sudden it's forgotten about because of the large periods between rounds.

Three weeks is about right for gaps between rounds.

Until the RFL shorten the gaps it'll always spoil it for me, it's my number one gripe.

Stupid IMO, nothing wrong with big gaps early on but surely between quarter finals and semis there should be 4 weeks max! 9 is way too many.

I preffered it when it ran from February to May, it meant it mattered how we were playing early on in the season, nowadays we only need to start picking up form in April.

Good point I hadn't thought of. Would be a way of getting teams/coaches to stop, in my best Sky jargon, '[ibuilding up to the business end of the season[/i'

Aye, plus I'm sure having the CC final, the SL final and the Internationals all close together must adversely affect attendances.