I'm just glad its however many weeks away. If it was played tomorrow we'd get smashed. Hopefully by that time though we've hit some form and you've lost yours a bit!

I stick by what I wrote I would imagine more agree with what I said than you Fat belly.

Loved the fact that Robbie Paul was grinning like a cheshire cat while man-voice wanted to wax lyrical about the Yorkshire ties. I thought there was a midget tickling his bum once the draw had been made. ALL he wanted to discuss was Wire Vs Wigan, and who can blame him? Not sure the producer on BBC Yorks wanted to hear about how great this match should be. This is the tie for the neutrals and anyone who loves British rugby league at its best. It promises to be a cracker, cannot wait.

Same here.

I'm 90% sure that it will be the Saturday.

Ahem, that's Robbie Hunter-Paul to you.

I was going to correct the 'were' to 'we're,' but then I realised that he even writes with a Wigan accent.

Crapped myself at first thought it was the weekend before when im away should be working on the saturday and sunday but a few coughs on the phone should sort me a day off.

After trying, unsuccessfully, to stream Look North, and then listening to Radio Five. I tuned into Radio Leeds just in time to hear;



'That concludes the draw......'

Some of you lot would whinge if you fell head first into a bucketfull of breasts.



Firstly (unfortunately) RL is a minority sport. Why would the powers that be at the Beeb, give air time, of an evening, to a draw (not a match, a draw). If you add up the average attendances of the 8 remainng clubs, you've probably got an interest of around 100,000 people. Not exactly in the license fee payers interest, is it, in a population of over 60 million. Besides, you don't need a draw on the telly, anyway. There's nothing to see. Just do it on the radio like the FA used to do for the football.



So what if Sky make a fuss of the team picks for the play-offs. They've 4 channels and a dedicated news channel to fill (eg, tonight their schedules are filled with repeats on all 4 channels).



I'm no fan of the Beeb, but they do give us 2 live games each round. What more do you want them to do. Show every game?

Those of us who are in their late 30's and over, will remember the BBC's coverage in the mid 80's, where you got 5 mins edited highlights of the first half, and ALL the second half live (weren't we lucky) of one game, per round. Honestly, you don't know your born. We've never had so much coverage.





So what if they didn't tell us what numbers were related to which teams. They were probably running to a tight schedule. They said the name a SECOND later after the ball number, or couldn't you wait that long.



CC can stay on the Beeb for me. Sky aren't interested, so at least we've still got national coverage



To quote a British Prime Minister from the 1950's "You've never had it so good"

Yes he did say that, but it was because it was so sh*te at the time.



Yes things have improved as far as coverage/profile of the game is concerned. But with very little effort they could be a lot better. I pay my licence, and am happy for part if to go on the CC rights. Having paid out, surely the BBC would want to try and harbour some interest in what is still a major sporting event. 100,000 interested people may not sound a lot, but it must be a damn sight more than the 3 people who are interested in 'Millie age 8 from Bootle who has lost her cat' or what ever the lead story was on North West Tonight. I'm having a hard job understanding why they couldn't have squeezed it in.



So thanks for all you do BBC, excuse me for asking for more.

cue fans from other teams moaning about a fixed draw because we got another easy tie.