I think we'll still be in the double headers at neutral grounds scenario.

It's a fair gamble that our next cup game will be a tougher draw than Fev at home (no disrespect meant to Fev).

Typical RFL, Stupid as ever with a massive lack of Due common sense, the original draw was the draw.
Usually, the rule is, any club not fulfilling a fixture in the cup then the opposing side gets a bye ! With all other fixtures to run to an outcome.
Then no one knows your next opponent in the next draw !
SIMPLE - how bad are we as a sport ?

It's no wonder fans are turning away from the game hate the way they fiddle with the rules

We lost fair and square to Toronto so no complaints from me or the Giants fans I speak to. Looking at the future fixtures it will be nice for our players to have the odd weekend off

The draws for the Sixth Round and Quarter Finals of the 2020 Coral Challenge Cup will take place at 6:30pm on Wednesday July 29.

Following this morning’s announcement that this year’s iteration of the competition will be reworked following withdrawals on account of the Coronavirus pandemic, it has now been agreed that both draws will take place at Media City, Manchester, hosted by the BBC’s Dave Woods, with St Helens and Great Britain legend Paul Sculthorpe MBE drawing the all-important numbers.
He will draw both the home and away teams, given the current public health advice.

Both draws will be covered live on the Our League app and website, as well as via the BBC Sport Website via text commentary.

Four of the 10 teams will be drawn out at random to take part in the two Sixth Round clashes, whilst the remaining six sides will receive a bye to the quarter finals.

Those six teams will remain in the hat for the Quarter Final draw, which will follow immediately, with numbers 11 and 12 added to represent the winners of the two sixth round ties.



Ball numbers for Sixth Round and Quarter Finals:

Castleford Tigers
Catalans Dragons
Hull FC
Hull Kingston Rovers
Leeds Rhinos
Salford Red Devils
St Helens
Wakefield Trinity
Warrington Wolves (holders)
Wigan Warriors

11. Winner of Sixth Round Tie 1
12. Winner of Sixth Round Tie 2

The two Sixth Round ties will be played at the John Smith’s Stadium in Huddersfield on Saturday August 22 – with both shown live on the BBC.

The Quarter Finals will take place on the weekend of September 18-20, to be televised by the BBC and Sky Sports.

Just had a thought re rules changing. Does anyone know if the challenge cup games will be played under normal SL rules, Or under the latest, six again and no scrums. Have the game’s administrators even thought about which set of rules the CC will be played to.

So if we fail to draw a bye do we get to go for a best of 3?

or we could just pull out like Toronto has and expect to play again next year

Good point.
First time Cas have drawn a lower league team for years and now its a re-draw.

Simple fair solution would be a three ball draw representing the three existing ties, first existing tie drawn cancelled and those two teams progress.
The other two games played on TV and the teams who had been fortunate in the original legitimate draw, who probably had a more than fair chance of getting through (though ours wouldn't be easy) also progress. Then quarters drawn as normal.
Much fairer in my opinion, a solution that no-one could really complain about and no-one potentially worse off than in the original draw.
Could do with a sign at RL HQ with a quote from Thank You For Smoking, "go smash you're head against your desk til something useful comes out".

Much simpler solution would be to leave it as it is......

Can't, would only be 7 teams for Q finals.

So Catalan and then Salford if we get through

The semi-finals are scheduled to be played on the 3rd October and the final a fortnight later, on the 17th October 2020.
The draw for the two ties in the sixth round was as follows;
Castleford Tigers v. Hull FC
Catalans Dragons v. Wakefield Trinity
The draw for the quarter finals was as follows;
Warrington Wolves v. St Helens
Leeds Rhinos v. Hull KR
Castleford or Hull FC v. Wigan Warriors
Catalans or Wakefield v. Salford Red Devils

Just our luck!

Why your not worried with that draw are you

I’d be more cautious of Salford, should we beat Catalans.
As there’s only three sets of fans for round 6, is it possible fans may be allowed to attend the game.

I'm ok with the redraw. Made it even for everyone.
Can't say we fared well in the draw but to be honest everyone needs game time so an extra game might not be a bad thing.

I really don't think that is a bad draw. Catalans have to travel across from France then we get Salford at home. Avoided Saints, Wire, Cas, Hull and Leeds until potential semi.

if we went on to win the cup then at least we've done it the proper way in beating teams, having saying that it would of been nice to get a bye

I see his point.
We've come out of this worse off than where we were.
The original draw, which had us playing Fev, would have seen us into the QF without playing another game.
Now, we have the delights of Catalan to get to where we were.

I realise that, to get the draw back in balance, things were far from straightforward but, we've got second best here and with fixtures getting ever closer together, it's not great.

The silver lining is that at least were going to get some games to see and it's been a long time coming.

Come on Trin !

Fev would have been no easy beats especially in a one off cup game. That tie had banana skin written all over it.
Less pressure on us against Catalan.

Extra game be good yes oh hang on we already to make 2 games up on a time were already planned to play 2 games every week...even for everyone none of the rl fave clubs sorry i mean big clubs are in quarter final while minows play for that right

it could be a worse draw if we play our best we should get to the semis .

Also I might be wrong here do we get extra cash from BBC (tv) for the sixth round ?

we need all the money we can get at this time. te ba