Sounds about right

if easts had won they would have got leigh

Myton would have hosted Halifax if they had beat Ovenden (which they where expected to do easily)

Amazing that one, considering how well they did in the previous round, sneaking it in the dying minutes...Gutted they never beat Ovenden

First time in a long time that no Hull teams have been in the 3rd round.

Super Fast Winger are you still playing, if so who for?

I went to see this last night & it was an utter shambles from start to finish,it said on the website that the cup will be on show from 4 so me n the daughter got there for about 4.10 only to be greeted by thr fookin metro gnomes so I went to the customer services & not 1 of them knew anything about it so I had to endure the gnomes for the thick end of 45 mins 15 mins later so off to build a bear with the now crabby daughter by the time we got back about 5.15 they was just setting up so I asked 1 of em what happened to 4pm,just said what ya on about. So couple of photos n we went so this final cock up does not suprise me! Oh n I kid you not there was about 10 people if that. Pathetic really as if this was in hull. The ques would of been out the door!!

You'd really think those metro gnomes would have better timing wouldn't you?

You may mock but unless you have seen them you really don't know how long 45 mins lasts (obviously 45 mins but it feels like 2 hrs) perhaps they should of made the draw???

drighlington at home to dewsbury.west hull got beat at drig,when they really should have won.a lot of players missing for wests,which i couldn't understand.you would have thought having the chance to play against a pro team would spur them on,but never mind.

Think you missed my (very poor) joke!

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I think it was in the 70's IIRC. We got Rochdale at home I think, and when they got to the last tie there was only 1 ball left in the bag ! One of the old duffers doing the draw had pulled 2 balls out at once and dropped 1 on the floor. So after a bit of scurrying around all the balls went back in for a re-draw and we got Saints away.
Needless to say we then got stuffed !

It really is quite embarrassing.

Sh*t happens and i am sure it is stated in the draw rules that if a draw is done wrongly it will be redrawn.

But when sh*t happens like this it just makes us look even more 'small sport' and amateur.

Why there have been cock ups with the FA cup draw over the years as well and it does not make them look a small sport.

They havent got a reputation for been a small sport that theyre trying to shift though have they?

Maybe not but it is hard to cater for unforseen errors. I doubt they intentionally went out to make a cock up of the draw but they rectified the mistake immediately. It may not look great but then again it doesn;t look bad either IMO.

How hard is it to put some balls in a bag and pull them out one at a time? shockingly incompetent whichever sport. A group of 7 year olds should be able to perform this task.

A bit like having the SL launch in London, nowhere near Wembley (which has no connection with Super League) instead of in Manchester, where the ultimate prize of the competition is decided, you mean??

Have to agree, I mean who thought of that idea? Most of the personnel involved then had to take a day out to trek down to London when the majority of the teams are within an hours drive of OT.

As far as I recall,the draw for the 1972 Challenge cup had to be made twice as a ball( Leigh,the cup holders) had fallen out of the bag and nobody knew anything until the last ball out of the bag had no opposition


Hull had originally drawn Dewsbury Celtic at the Boulevard but second time around were given Rovers.
I seem to remember at the time that I wish the original tie had stood and that the Rugby League had fixed it for both Hull clubs to meet.
It mattered not in the end as we knocked them out 7-5

Spot on - didn't we end up playing Barrow away before a team that had been knocked out in the previous round turned up! (The ball had gotten into the lining - eight balls placed in the bag then presto, the bag in the lining reappeared!)

I think Tommy Cooper was there too

True - but can anyone remember it happening in any other sport? I mean it isn't that hard to pull team names out of a hat/bag/ goldfish bowl - whatever!

My brothers mate ran a subbuteo league when he was about ten - he never cocked a cup draw up. How hard can it be?

I remember the fa cup draw when a player pulled out 24 and called it as 25. He then pulled out 24 later and covered it with his fingers and called it 25.

Much rather a redraw than fudging it.