[Farnworth Viking Posts: 374First Teamer☆☆☆☆☆☆]

A good draw for Widnes, west Wales away in the first round .

[Farnworth Viking Posts: 374First Teamer☆☆☆☆☆☆]

Home to Whitehaven or Dewsbury in the second round .

[CJ91 Posts: 878Captain☆☆☆☆☆☆☆]

Be nice to get through to Round 3, funny that West Wales have a HB pairing of Henson and Chase: imagine that 10 years ago in SL…….

Presumably some streaming coverage somewhere?

[Farnworth Viking Posts: 374First Teamer☆☆☆☆☆☆]

Bbc said they were going to live stream some of the ties, and I think Our League are going to do some as well.

[geoffw Posts: 292First Teamer☆☆☆☆☆☆]

Could not ask for better draws really for both rounds.

[Frankg Posts: 694Captain☆☆☆☆☆☆☆]

I would think that the Featherstone v Bradford game will be televised. The Henson/Chase link and the local impetus into the game in Wales may well attract the interest of the BBC. Do clubs receive any additional funding for CC games or televised games?

[Ditton donkey Posts: 532Captain☆☆☆☆☆☆☆]

Great draw x 2

pity no crowds as west Wales is the second nearest for me

whats their average crowd – about 300 I think, you never know there could be crowds of up to 2000 by then !
onwards and upwards !

[Former Chemic Posts: 355First Teamer☆☆☆☆☆☆]

Agree that, for once, the draw for the first two rounds couldn’t be kinder to Widnes.

And, I’ll bet next weeks wages that one of the tv channels will cover the ‘Henson and Chase’ game live.

[Griffin1 Posts: 57Time to get a VIQI☆☆☆☆]

We will only have ourselves to blame if we do not win both games and qualify for the AB sundecks semi final.

[Lord Lucan Posts: 41South Stander☆☆☆]

Skybet’s odds for the 1895 Cup make interesting reading!

https://m.skybet.com/rugby-league/1895-cup/event/26889091

They’ve clearly taken into account the draw for rounds 1 and 2 of the Challenge Cup, with Widnes having an obvious chance of reaching round 3 (and therefore the semis of the 1895 Cup).

Halifax would have to beat Batley away and then visit the winners of Fev v Bradford, hence their inflated odds.

[Ditton donkey Posts: 532Captain☆☆☆☆☆☆☆]

Reckon that’s a decent ew for York – Widnes price far too short for outright win, think we could be on the box, no other game shouts out, possibly sheff / York

[Ditton donkey Posts: 532Captain☆☆☆☆☆☆☆]

That’s assuming fev / Bradford is first choice game which would put us playing sunday

[Frankg Posts: 694Captain☆☆☆☆☆☆☆]

Griffin1 wrote:

We will only have ourselves to blame if we do not win both games and qualify for the AB sundecks semi final.

Decent draw and a good test for the team. West Wales will be all out to take the Widnes scalp and Dewsbury always seem to give us a game too.

I would blame the referee if we lose!!

 

[Dan1 Posts: 337First Teamer☆☆☆☆☆☆]

Good job the Dewsbury game is at home if we both win, we always struggle on that small heavy pitch.

[Ditton donkey Posts: 532Captain☆☆☆☆☆☆☆]

Perfect season start, relatively easy game, harder and then a league start at home against Newcastle

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