Cup Final who do you want to win? : Thu Aug 10, 2023 6:47 pm  

Hull KR or Leigh Leapards

Re: Cup Final who do you want to win? : Thu Aug 10, 2023 6:48 pm  

Let me think

Re: Cup Final who do you want to win? : Thu Aug 10, 2023 8:17 pm  

Whether we like it or not Rovers' name is on the trophy this year. Best to accept it and be pleased for friends/family members some of whom have never experienced winning a major trophy. Everyone complains when it's the same teams getting silverware - you can't have it all ways.

Re: Cup Final who do you want to win? : Thu Aug 10, 2023 8:45 pm  

Mrs Barista wrote:

Whether we like it or not Rovers' name is on the trophy this year. Best to accept it and be pleased for friends/family members some of whom have never experienced winning a major trophy. Everyone complains when it's the same teams getting silverware - you can't have it all ways.

Absolutely true.

I'll be disappointed if a plane with a celebratory banner attached isn't circling over the MKM at our next home game.

Re: Cup Final who do you want to win? : Fri Aug 11, 2023 2:25 am  

Leigh

Think man for man leigh are stronger no doubt

But as always with finals pressure is a funny thing and on the day

Re: Cup Final who do you want to win? : Fri Aug 11, 2023 4:51 am  

Would rather see Leigh win. And that would be the same regardless of who they are playing (except us). Would be some achievement for the newly promoted team to win silverware.
I also quite like Beaumont now. Used to think he was an idiot. Mainly based on when he'd get drunk and take to twitter. Having seen more of him this year and heard him on Sky/BBC, he comes across really well. Loves his club and loves the sport.

Re: Cup Final who do you want to win? : Fri Aug 11, 2023 6:02 am  

Part of me wants Rovers to win, just for some of my old mates, who did actually go during their wilderness years and who are genuine RL fans. That part of me though was removed when I lost the end of my little finger to a mallet tendon injury. For the way Lilley and latterly Hudgell have tried to do us over, Leigh, by 52 points, with Tom Briscoe getting 6 this time.

Re: Cup Final who do you want to win? : Fri Aug 11, 2023 6:36 am  

48 g 2 to Leigh.. 4 for Briscoe. Win/win. They don't get the pot but my red and poop mates can claim solace in an improvement on 2015!

Re: Cup Final who do you want to win? : Fri Aug 11, 2023 7:23 am  

Mrs Barista wrote:

Whether we like it or not Rovers' name is on the trophy this year

Possibly, but there is also the alternative narrative, the one that says Leigh's name is 'on the cup'
The narrative that says that as the story of the season (newly promoted side upsetting the odds, successful club re-brand, positive air about them, a feeling of destiny calling) it is somehow written in the stars for Leigh to complete a remarkable twelve months by winning at Wembley?

Think it's a 50/50 call. It could be almost anything from a 30pt Leigh victory to a 30pt win for rovers, and all points in-between!
Having said all that, I'm going for rovers to prevail narrowly, around a 4/6pt win. I've also had a sneaky feeling about them since the start of the season, especially after Good Friday ( ), that they would be in one of the major finals, and so it has come to be!!!

Re: Cup Final who do you want to win? : Fri Aug 11, 2023 8:13 am  

I’d be pleased for the genuine kr fans getting the monkey off their back.
I’ve seen folk suddenly wearing kr tops that I’ve never seen wear them before
However since experiencing the unpleasantness of kr since the 80’s and having met Lilley and Hudgell,
I sincerely hope leigh win comfortably.