Challenge cup fourth round : Mon Feb 10, 2020 6:45 pm  

Drawn at home to amateur side Underbank Rangers.

Re: Challenge cup third round : Mon Feb 10, 2020 7:15 pm  

Great draw for Underbank, it's the 4th round not the 3rd.
will be a superb occasion for the amateurs who are not a bad side either and smashed L1 west wales yesterday

Re: Challenge cup fourth round : Tue Feb 11, 2020 7:35 am  

Good draw. Huddersfield are away that weekend too (Hull KR) on the Friday night - hopefully the club get the pricing right, it gets a good gate and we can get a decent amount of cash for Underbank.

Re: Challenge cup fourth round : Tue Feb 11, 2020 9:08 am  

Think it's a perfect tie to be honest. Underbank will probably bring a fair following, more than many L1 clubs and it should give us an opportunity to not risk a few senior players and give some of the younger players a run out.

Re: Challenge cup fourth round : Thu Feb 13, 2020 4:09 pm  

Our game to be shown on bbc red button on Sunday 1PM ko

Re: Challenge cup fourth round : Fri Feb 14, 2020 10:33 am  

Seems a strange one to put on the box.
Usually its games where there is a chance of an upset or 2 quality teams playing each other

Neither of which apply to this game.
Im not sure it does much for Underbank if we give them an absolute toweling on national tv

Re: Challenge cup fourth round : Fri Feb 14, 2020 11:03 am  

Don't you think a small community club like underbank deserve to have their day in the limelight regardless of the result just for what they've achieved so far in getting this far?

Re: Challenge cup fourth round : Fri Feb 14, 2020 11:38 am  

RagingBull wrote:

Seems a strange one to put on the box.
Usually its games where there is a chance of an upset or 2 quality teams playing each other

Neither of which apply to this game.
Im not sure it does much for Underbank if we give them an absolute toweling on national tv

What makes you think we'll give them a 'toweling'. It will probably be a real slog of a match thanks to the weather, the size of the pitch and the state of the playing surface.
I agree that it won't be much of a spectacle but I'm not expecting us to hammer them. I don't have any confidence in this side we've got being able to hammer anybody tbh.

Re: Challenge cup fourth round : Fri Feb 14, 2020 12:26 pm  

SpainesRoadFartown wrote:

Don't you think a small community club like underbank deserve to have their day in the limelight regardless of the result just for what they've achieved so far in getting this far?

Yep absolutely. But i dont think its unreasonable to suggest there is more chance of a closer game and an upset at Siddal where they will host a League 1 club, rather than at our game.

[Bulliac]

Re: Challenge cup fourth round : Fri Feb 14, 2020 1:57 pm  

But our game has all the hallmarks of a Beeb RL game: Two old clubs, one former giant against a plucky amateur side. Every opportunity to get out a brass band with views of dark, satanic mills as a backdrop with someone waxing lyrically about 1895. It's exactly their MO.