Everyone keeps talking about the challenge cup and how to stop the big scores when super league teams take on the championship teams. The answer is hitting us all in the face when Featherstone play Wigan next Friday Wigan are allowed 5 overseas players and Rovers just 1 in the same competition, unbelievable. So come on Shaun wane you seem like a decent man so play the game, just play 1 import against us the same as were allowed. lets all play to the same rules in the same competition you already have the advantage of 1.3 million from sky to our 100k that surely must be enough do you want us to play with 1 arm tied behind our backs as well?
Come on take us on with just the 1 overseas player

boring

Would be interesting to see which overseas player Wane would select, can obviously see it being one of the halves, probably Finch. Still a decent side.

Sam
Charnley
Goulding
Hughes
King
Finch/Tommy
Mellor
Prescott
McIlorum
Mossop
Hock
Hansen
O'Loughlin

Farrell
Tuson
Flower
Dudson

how is it boring take us on with the same rules, thats all were wanting, why do Wigan the world famous, biggest club in the whole world need the advantage of more foreign players against a village pit team?

Shaun Wane has already made the mistake of deliberately fielding a weakened team this season. He's unlikely to make it again.

it's very simple really:

get behind your club, get your mates involved & stop them watching wendy-ball on the telly of a Saturday aft.
bankroll your local team, help them get better & reclaim the heights you used to have

you won the CC not 30 years ago. you've only yourselves to blame for the parlous (

) state you're in now

You get me wrong my friend, were in a great state, i just want the same rules applied to every team in the challenge cup. We either all can play 5 overseas players or 1, im not bothered which i just want featherstone and Wigan to play to the same rules

Like Cas did in the last round?

Given the cap is about 5 or 6 times in Super League compared to the Championship, we'll just send Sam Tomkins as that'll probably makes us even as well. There you go, no overseas players.

No not bothered about that, just play the same overseas players that were allowed, were just a village team nawt to worry about

No need, Sam will probably win it on his own.

You seem to be under the impression that every overseas player that Wigan have is better than any of their British or European players.

He probably qualifies as british now for some stupid reason or is it that he's been with you so long but isnt Hansen from NZ?

Well Carmont, Lima, Leuluai, Finch, Hansen, Richards and Luaki all get in the first 17 so that shows that there better than the British players in there given position.

so let Fev play 5 overseas players then.

have you got 5?

Gingdong - dont you think our players have earned the right to play against the best? We managed to beat cas and its at least 3 overseas players

If the best is a team full of overseas players then so be it

Personally i hope you bring as many overseas players as possible it will be an honour to potentially see so many good players gracing our pitch

Id feel a tinge of disappointment if some players listed above were rested although still expecting a quality team regardless

The bit in bold ends the thread for me. The Featherstone players have earned the right to play against top class opposition, by defeating another professional outfit. They deserve to play against the best - not some miss-matched 'lets just field a team that might do the hosts some favours' .. It would be disrespectful.

Born in NZ, brought up over here, went to school just outside Salford, came through the Wigan academy.

Strange that certain fans whose team has just heroically beaten a SL outfit are now appealing to the charity of the next SL team they're to face, instead of bubbling with confidence and telling them to bring it on.

On the day it will be 13 men against 13 men, with nationalities irrelevant. Wigan will be playing under exactly the same rules as Featherstone. Attempts to paint it differently are disingenuous.

Complaints about the Championship's overseas register should be directed to the RFL, not Wigan RL.

However, this is starting to sound distinctly tlike "we have a ready-made excuse if we lose". Not impressed.

I hope we have the best 17 players that are fit playing, that would surely send a message to everyone else left in the cup that we intend to do our best to retain the cup.

I made exactly the same point on GMR.

The Super League teams will still win, but you'll get a few more upsets, close games and wait for it...fans!

People don't want to see part time teams getting smashed.

I also can't see the harm in DR players playing for two clubs either, surely Wigan wouldn't mind Tom Spencer or Matty Russell playing against another Super League team for Leigh, as long as they don't play against Wigan it shouldn't make a difference.

At the moment Super League clubs are playing against weakened Championship teams.

The day the cup needs to start giving handicaps, splitting in to a two tier comp or brings in a rule where overseas players are limited is the day we should just knock it on the head all together. The reality is it's tough work for these championship clubs to compete and shocks will only ever come from the top 2 or 3 clubs but rather that then watering it down or bringing in betting coupon style handicaps.

If I were a Featherstone fan or a Barrow fan or a north Wales crusaders fan etc I'd be made up drawing a big club. Would I think we were going to win the game? Probably not but it brings exposure to my club and brings in income. Do we think sky would touch these cup ties if we started to ban some of the best and most exciting players playing in them?

I'd just be looking forward mainly to watching players like Sam Tomkins, Thomas Leuluai, Sean O'Loughlin, Jeff Lima etc in the flesh because they're top quality and Fev can improve by playing against them.

But you're not a Fev or Barrow fan, so you have no idea how you would react.

They'd be able to play against Super League opposition, just not lower division teams.

Jeff Lima- There's a player who draws in the fans!

Im under no impressions, just want the same rules for both teams in the same cup competition

Thats the whole point bonehead, WERE NOT ALLOWED 5