2024 Challenge Cup Semi-Finals Draws The men’s and women’s Challenge Cup semi-final draws were held during the half time interval in the final men’s quarter final between St Helens and the Warrington Wolves at the Totally Wicked Stadium. Both competitions are down to their last four sides with Leeds, St Helens, Wigan and York represented in the women’s competition and Hull KR, Huddersfield, Wigan and either St Helens or Warrington in the men’s. The draw was made by Jamie Peacock and Kevin Brown with the Women’s draw taking place first. READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

2024 Challenge Cup Semi-Finals Draws The men’s and women’s Challenge Cup semi-final draws were held during the half time interval in the final men’s quarter final between St Helens and the Warrington Wolves at the Totally Wicked Stadium. Both competitions are down to their last four sides with Leeds, St Helens, Wigan and York represented in the women’s competition and Hull KR, Huddersfield, Wigan and either St Helens or Warrington in the men’s. The draw was made by Jamie Peacock and Kevin Brown with the Women’s draw taking place first. READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

Very surprised at who we'd drawn (according to Google)....

It has that as the fixture on Wigan's website, which is probably where Google picked it up from

You'd presume we'll be at Headingley again and if that is the case, please RFL, just give us a stand with a roof! There are 3 of them to choose from, so it shouldn't be too difficult.

I'd be happy for a ref that isn't Kendall....well obviously not James Vella, he's awful

Wigan aren't the only ones with poorly-run websites. I paid a rare visit to the RFL website to read their match report of the Cas tie. They couldn't even get the score right!

Be another tough game like last year. We’ll have to play well to win. Can’t wait

If wigan ladies play on the same day as the men's which would make sense it won't be headingley because Leeds ladies would have home advantage.

Peet has referenced the KR game last year as one that hurt. So you’ll imagine he’ll be targeting this one and righting the wrongs. We was competing in that game until the red card. Kr do look stronger as do we so hopefully we can turn them over.

I hope they don’t play it at Headingley. That’s away end has to be the worst in the league

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Leeds ladies played there when we lost to Hull KR

It can't be played at Headingley - the ground isn't available. Probably be Huddersfield.

Scrap that - Doncaster.

As the other semi-final is being played at St Helens too it looks like our Women are going to be on before that semi-final with St Helens vs York opening for ours. Brilliant at this organisation stuff the RFL aren't they?

It has a roof atlest hopefully we take a fair decent few to this one

Feels a bit like they've decided after Wigan fans didn't travel in great numbers last year, that they will try and maximise revenue by putting it as close to Hull as is realistically possible. It's much the same with the other semi, where Wires support will dwarf the other. Hard to get a perfect venue for either in terms of fairness but these feel a little off. As pointed out though, at least we have a roof and access to a toilet or a bar that isn't a half a mile trek away.

Is it time to do away with neutral venues?

Unlikely as they’ve only just brought them back. I’m happy to do it either way but they need to do a better job with venues. Tough to give too much criticism without knowing which grounds are and are not available though.

i struggle at times to understand the mentality of some fans, reading comments on forums and social media. IMO its the fairest way for both sets of fans to hold it at a ground somewhere in the middle ground. Admittedly its slightly closer to KR this time (about 20 miles) but IMO its far better than last year

we've sold out Saints, Leigh already this year, and took decent numbers to Cas at weekend (asking for further batches of tickets)

After last year i didnt want the game at Headingley, if they were going to allocate the stands in the same way. It should have been something like North (50:50), East (Wigan), South (KR) and then if either sold excess tickets then the Western terrace

Doncaster looks like a decent stadium to me. Just over 15k capacity, and i dont see any reason why we shouldnt be looking to sell 7-7.5k for a semi final. Apart from the season ticket fiasco, there's a feel good factor about the place at the minute, and we should be looking to get there in numbers and get behind the team, not making excuses for not going (yes, i know not everyone can make it before i get pelters)

I'd love to think we could sell numbers like those but honestly, I doubt we'll take more then a couple of thousand. The cup just isn't pulling in big numbers anymore, other than for teams like HKR who getting to semi finals and finals is pretty new to all their fans born from the 90's onwards.

If Wigan can get sales up towards 4k I'll be both happy and surprised.

true, but its strange and a shame though isnt it. We sold 25k weeks in advance for the WCC, good friday sold out in no-time at all, but no real demand for cup semi final and tickets appear to be priced sensibly. its also the same for home play off games, most of the ST holders where i sat in the East didnt attend those either

It is a shame and it's a problem across the game. I think our fan base has become a bit too used to being in semi finals and finals and most will pick and choose which to attend. The venue isn't perfect but it's not horrendous and has some advantages over Headingley. I think the suggestion that the club attempts to gain some goodwill back regards the ticketing issues by offering up some sort of travel offer is a decent one. That could be a win win, in offering up an apology, while at the same time making sure the team is backed by a healthy following for that big game.

The cup has definitely lost some of its magic, Wembley is now way to big and pretty soulless, that big do-nut ring of empty club Wembley seats is awful, very few neutrals going for the day, probably no trains running it all adds up.
Wigan/HKR v Wire at Tottenham/Arsenal would be a much more attractive fixture, no offence to their fans who do turn up week in week out but the RFL must be praying Hudds don't get through to the final.

i'd go as far as saying i actually hate the new Wembley. We went to the 1st game (Saints v Catalan) and said we would only go back when Wigan go. It lost all of its appeal when they knocked it down and rebuilt it. You couldnt beat the days out with all the neutral fans sat on the grass banks for me

re Hudds, i've seen their allocation for the semi, with the North and 1 block in the East.

I'm all for tradition but tend to agree. I don't feel a great deal of excitement for going to Wembley anymore. It's pretty soulless when there are only 50-60k on. I'd be the complete opposite if they were to move the final to Spurs full time. That stadium blew me away and would be extremely excited to see a big final, like Wigan vs Wire or Wigan vs Saints at that ground. The atmosphere would be immense.