Hull FC • Fixtures 2025
Steve0 wrote:
I don't mind the draw, but maybe superleague clubs shouldn't be seeded, that way you still might get super League clubs playing each other early on and champ clubs have a better chance of progressing to the 4th/5th rounds
I agree. I’ve said this before, the Challenge Cup works better when the First Round (proper) is an open draw of 32 teams, including all SL, Championship, League 1 and any non League clubs, coming through from a Preliminary round.
That’s how it used to be for a century and in the early 80’s Hull drew Millom at home one season; and Rovers away another season (when we were the Top 2 teams). It’s just the luck of the draw.
The Cup had been sanitised too much to favour the SL clubs and the same is happening in football.
Sometimes change is necessary, but sometimes tradition works perfectly fine.
Statistics: Posted by Rugby Raider — Thu Jan 16, 2025 11:49 am — Replies 95 — Views 18705