Les Catalans v St Helens ?

[quins rl]

I know it doent have much interest to most on here but its Challenge Cup final time,and its back at Wembley again?? St Helens will be expected to take the cup home again but could Les Catalans spring a major upset??
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_league/6955628.stm

[PROMETHEUS]

Ill go the frogs,just to stop the usual suspects winning everything

[~lee~]

I gotta go for the Saints, they seem to step it up when it really matters, but Cats deinitely have a real chance here after what they did to the Saints couple weeks back. Sean Long for MOM.


There could be large sections around the half way line in the stand empty, the Wembley stadium offers 10 year tickets and many of them have said they arent turning up for this game. This wont best please Northern fans who cant get hold of tickets.

[quins rl]

Hopefully there wont be to many empty seats Lee,tickets have sold out but as you say "club wembley" members account for a large chunk of the tickets(somewhere in the region of 10-14000 i believe).Whether they choose to turn up(unfortunately the cup final is just 3 days after England played Germany at Wembley),or choose to sell the tickets on,which they have the right to do remains to be seen,either way with the 75000 tickets snapped up by RL fans i hope a crowd of 80000+ is on the cards!Having been to plenty of CC finals at Wembley i am gutted not to be at the first one back there.I remember going to my first final and being amazed at all the fans from different cliubs wearing their colours and the great banter and atmosphere between the rival fans,coming from a football background that mentality was totally alien to what i was used to at games!Hopefully RL is the winner on the day but the BBC coverage leaves a fair bit to be desired,Sky do a far better job but at least its on terrestial tv for all to see.

[DIEHARD]

I was cheering for Les Cats. I hate St Helens. And I love Les Cats.

It was tough to see them go down, from the 50 minutes I watched, they didn't seem to have much luck.

It was still a fantastic achievement for the club and a fantastic return to rugby league's home at Wembly.

[quins rl]

Yeah,it was always gonna be tough for Les Cats,Saints have the big game mentality and the French were missing a few,but great boost for the game them getting there,plus 84,000 crowd,considering only around 2000 French fans crosed the channel for the game was very good.

[~lee~]

It was a good game, first half was close, Cats holding their own, the 2 quick tries before and after half time was a real heartbreaker for Cats though, always up against it after that. How good was Roby's try, he is seriously strong. Did anyone else notice that they kicked off (Sean Long i think) before the band had left the ingoal area of the half they were kicking too?

It was good to see it back at Wembley, 84,000 a great crowd, impossible to get a full capacity with the 10 year tickets.

[quins rl]

James Roby has been quality for a couple of seasons now,so much so that Saints were happy to let Micky Higham go in the knowledge Roby would take his place easily.Has been great for him to learn off Kieron Cunningham,i think he will have a long international career ahead of him.