Re: Challenge Cup Semi Final : Tue Jul 23, 2019 5:52 am  

[quote="WIZEB"]Surely you must be a little upbeat after Tarq's rallying call?

I am buzzing my tutties off ! Saints at Wembley is more winnable than Saints in a semi final.

I'm up at 5am Sat morning here as taking my daughter to a tennis comp in rural Victoria. Got to stay up until 1am for the match.

I'll be stood up in my living room all the match ! I have a rippa of a Shiraz ready if we win and a few 650ml cans of Sapporo for the match.

Let's do it and get that Cup 3 x in our Cabinet

Re: Challenge Cup Semi Final : Tue Jul 23, 2019 5:52 am  

Tarquin Fuego wrote:

Forget Marquee, Form counts for a lot. 1-2 of Wire fans have been on here being honest saying they're not playing well.
We have a 50/50 chance and having beat Leeds, whilst they were losing at Cas, I think we should be favourites.
I have us as Favourite in my mind ! Let's go there and get the job done. The earnings alone from a Wembley trip will pay Mahe's wage next year !

We've just scraped past 2 of the bottom clubs, not sure this is great form for a semi against one in 2nd boasting the Man of Steel elect in the rain. Would love us to win, obviously. Should be a good atmosphere as well. Never expected to be here after another tough draw so just enjoying the build up.

Re: Challenge Cup Semi Final : Tue Jul 23, 2019 5:54 am  

Jake the Peg wrote:

You're welcome although I did make it up

It was a good guess. I make it 6 too. Twice in the early 1900's when we lost 3 consecutive cup finals, twice in the late 50's/early 60's when we lost 2 cup finals in a row and reached the semi the next year, once in the early 80's plus the current one.

Re: Challenge Cup Semi Final : Tue Jul 23, 2019 6:24 am  

Freddie Miller. wrote:

It was a good guess. I make it 6 too. Twice in the early 1900's when we lost 3 consecutive cup finals, twice in the late 50's/early 60's when we lost 2 cup finals in a row and reached the semi the next year, once in the early 80's plus the current one.

Genuinely a once in a generation achievement then! Thanks for the reply Freddie, interesting history!

Re: Challenge Cup Semi Final : Tue Jul 23, 2019 7:32 am  

Mrs Barista wrote:

We've just scraped past 2 of the bottom clubs, not sure this is great form for a semi against one in 2nd boasting the Man of Steel elect in the rain. Would love us to win, obviously. Should be a good atmosphere as well. Never expected to be here after another tough draw so just enjoying the build up.

Eeyore is a character in the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A. A. Milne. He or indeed, She, is generally characterised as a pessimistic, gloomy, depressed, anhedonic, old grey stuffed donkey who is a friend of the title character, Winnie-the-Pooh

Re: Challenge Cup Semi Final : Tue Jul 23, 2019 7:41 am  

Tarquin Fuego wrote:

Eeyore is a character in the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A. A. Milne. He or indeed, She, is generally characterised as a pessimistic, gloomy, depressed, anhedonic, old grey stuffed donkey who is a friend of the title character, Winnie-the-Pooh

Are you kidding me? I've just applauded the fact this is our best set of cup semi runs in a generation, and shared a link praising Ellis. Very happy right now. If we win, great, plenty still to be pleased about if not. The old grey stuffed bit I'll give you.

Re: Challenge Cup Semi Final : Tue Jul 23, 2019 8:19 am  

Tarquin Fuego wrote:

Eeyore is a character in the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A. A. Milne. He or indeed, She, is generally characterised as a pessimistic, gloomy, depressed, anhedonic, old grey stuffed donkey who is a friend of the title character, Winnie-the-Pooh

Has your daughter been reading you a bedside story or two to rock you off to sleep?

Re: Challenge Cup Semi Final : Tue Jul 23, 2019 8:57 am  

Mrs Barista wrote:

Were we separated at birth fez1?
We're not strong favourites from what I can see, but I could be wrong. We made a fair few errors yesterday it has to be said and discipline was an issue. How Kelly goes for us will be huge after a lay-off. Assume that your Man of Steel elect will be directing proceedings. I suspect Connor will be selected purely for his ability to get Hill riled up. They do seem to have a connection. Hope it's a decent game and that the ref lets things flow.

I've not seen Hull too much in the last couple of weeks but we've fallen a long way over the last 2-3 months and the last 2 weeks have been really bad.
I agree about the need for it to be a decent game but if we're evenly matched it could be messy for whoever gets to Wembley....

Re: Challenge Cup Semi Final : Tue Jul 23, 2019 12:50 pm  

early forecast saying rain possible on Saturday.

Re: Challenge Cup Semi Final : Tue Jul 23, 2019 12:58 pm  

Mrs Barista wrote:

Genuinely a once in a generation achievement then! Thanks for the reply Freddie, interesting history!

What is interesting is that on the official Hull FC club website the list of honours does not include 1908/09 as a CC runners up season.It lists 1907/08,1909/10. Strange that it omits 1908/09 as we did lose 3 consecutive CC finals in that period.

Another website,however, does show the 3 seasons as CC runners up.