Absolute shambles.

Is this the level of journalistic research to which we aspire ?



Presumably we're talking about the Trains here.

A final in Halifax is like having an all inclusive summer sun holiday in Inverness.

This could be a good game...

Like checking into a 5* hotel and sleeping on an air bed.

Like visiting Michelin star restaurant and having a bag of pork scratchings.

Like having a tremendous occasion in a world famous resort, and moving it to Halifax.

I'm not very good at this game.

If you look at our forum, Mike Riley has explained why it isn't Blackpool and why it isn't a Super League ground, check it out and then say where you would prefer it.

Still not impressed.

Anywhere but the ground of one of the competing clubs.

So you don't like it but have no idea where you would like it to be?

Swinton anyone?

Wembley, then.

If it was such a loss making competition why not just get rid of it?

^ Exactly.

The league has been extended anyway, I don't think anyone would lose any sleep over it.

Dangerous road to go down.

There might be no game at all if everyone followed that advice.

I wouldn't just dump it. It's nice to have an extra competition that you can realistically win besides the Grand Final.

$uperleague have the Challenge Cup, we have the Rail Cup, Div 3 have the Rail Bowl.

Play it as a curtain raiser to the Challenge Cup Final

And the Bowl ?



Whilst Cup Final attendances are not what they were, I don't think they've fallen so far as to justify a double header.

The grand final now played at Leigh

Why not have the challenge cup final at JJB stadium and the super league grand final at Headingly

,Let's go the whole hog and give advantage to teams from the same comp,I'm lost for words,how thick the RFL are,You can't have finals played at grounds were potential finalists are playing in there home ground,Clueless,Imagine if there was promotion and we got to the final and played Leigh for a chance to go up at Leigh





Ive never known one sport were they get so many things totally wrong,chopping and changing every year,They havn't got a bloody clue.

The RFL have gone completely bonkers - Rugby league must be the laughing stock of world sport - Mr Rimmer you have surpassed all expectations - plonker

You wouldn't get a Champions League finalist playing at their home ground! Hang on a minute...

I'm not as bothered about the GF being at Leigh, we'll have knocked them out before the final anyway.

What do you mean - "have gone" ?



What's Rimmer got to do with this ?

The Championships Finals Day has proven to be a day of great drama and excitement over recent seasons and I’m sure Leigh Sports Village will provide the perfect setting for more extraordinary Rugby League action in 2013,” said RFL Chief Operating Officer Ralph Rimmer.

Quite a bit I think??

Clubs make the decisions. Ralph can recommend but, if you don't like a decision, blame the clubs. Ralph acts on their instructions.

He should be called Chief Lackie ..... but IMO he probably has more power than it would appear!