does any1 know when it takes place ... is it after the fax v bradford game .. many thanks

No need to watch it we've got Saints Away.

You have just answered your own question.

I hope we get an easy draw through to the semi-finals and if we do end up with a really tough team I hope it is at home.

why? we are $h!t at home

I was thinking about the road we took in '02, ridiculously easy when you look back. IIRC it was Hull FC, UTC, Leigh, Castleford, St Helens. I'd kill for that route again!

True but I would still be more confident playing at Wigan against the likes of Leeds and Wire.

It'll be Leeds away as per usual.

You say easy...but you should have got knocked out in the quarters!

On paper the route to the final was easy but it was far from that. Not sure we should have been knocked out to Leigh but it was a very tough game we had to come from behind to win. 7 Sin Bins and Crowd Trouble as well.

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The Semi v Cas wasn't easy either. We sweated on a slender 14-10 lead from 35th to 76th minute before Gary Connolly sealed the win.

That was more to do with the team not being that great though. If we got those draws again I reckon we would make it much easier.

Biased sod



Game all hinged on a refereeing decision from Cummings. Remember the daft rule about getting a 20m tap if you caught the ball in-goal with one foot over the dead ball line? Instead of getting the tap, Cummings gave the drop out mentioned and Dallas scored in the corner in the next set of six to give you some breathing space when we'd really had you on the rack prior to that.

Certainly one of my favourite Leigh games of all-time though, even with what was on reflection some pretty average players in the Leigh side. Crowd was unofficially well in to five figures as well; wish we could get that now! Maybe we'll see in this year's quarter finals?

Was the game at Leigh the one were it hammered rain for most of the game? The semi against Cas was an hard game.

We seemed to make hard work of UTC too.

Still a rule that isnt it? Im sure tommy did it last year at some point?

It was bright sunshine until an absolute monsoon at about 2pm (I know as I'd left for the game without a jacket!)


I thought they'd scrapped it to be honest. Still a daft 'un anyway

Ignore this. I was thinking of the 2005 game.

I was very glad we didn't have a video ref for that game.

didn't dennis moran play full back? We where terrible that night!

EDIT- just checked! We had the mighty david vaealiki at full back!

I wonder if the draw will be leaked in advance like it was a year or two ago when someone claiming to have the inside track posted it on rlfans.com.... unless of course they were [uextremely[/u lucky.

i can remember having to climb a fence to get out of Leigh in 2002

I don't think many would have had jackets on, it was looking good until we got in the ground and then the heavens opened.

Yeah the idea is that you're out of play when you touch the ball, therefore you aren't taking it out of play. I believe the rule now is you can't do it when the ball has stopped. There was a similar one messed up in Hull v Saints at the weekend when a Hull player caught a kick with his foot in touch, should have been Hull scrum.