: Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:39 am  

SEB wrote:

Baffles me all these conspiracy theories. No-one ever accurately predicts any of the draws. And people often call the RFL incompetent - yet to regularly fix cup draws with all the people that get involved in them and keep it quiet, they must be impressively powerful and well organised.

2 cold balls that have been in the fridge overnight, the rest room temperature, tell the blokes making the draw to keep the cold balls apart, simple really.

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

: Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:50 am  

SEB wrote:

Baffles me all these conspiracy theories. No-one ever accurately predicts any of the draws. And people often call the RFL incompetent - yet to regularly fix cup draws with all the people that get involved in them and keep it quiet, they must be impressively powerful and well organised.

thats not entirely true though.

: Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:57 am  

the tache is back wrote:

just been speaking to mystic meg as i walked into arderns on willis st,she told me it's salford away and i was going to order a meat and potato pie and a custard.
the other game on tv is wigan v saints.

OOOHH!!! I could just eat one of there pies...

: Tue Apr 07, 2009 11:00 am  

I just did my own draw using a random number generator in Excel:

Warrington Wolves v St Helens
Featherstone Rovers v Oldham
Hull KR v Wakefield Trinity Wildcats
Sheffield Eagles v Halifax
Castleford Tigers v Huddersfield Giants
Rochdale Hornets v Batley Bulldogs
Catalans Dragons v Gateshead Thunder
Salford City Reds v Wigan Warriors.

: Tue Apr 07, 2009 11:03 am  

SEB wrote:

:shock:

I just did my own draw using a random number generator in Excel:

Warrington Wolves v St Helens
Featherstone Rovers v Oldham
Hull KR v Wakefield Trinity Wildcats
Sheffield Eagles v Halifax
Castleford Tigers v Huddersfield Giants
Rochdale Hornets v Batley Bulldogs
Catalans Dragons v Gateshead Thunder
Salford City Reds v Wigan Warriors.

Did something simelar myself, mine came out with Warrington v Halifax

: Tue Apr 07, 2009 11:19 am  

SEB wrote:

:shock:

I just did my own draw using a random number generator in Excel:

Warrington Wolves v St Helens
Featherstone Rovers v Oldham
Hull KR v Wakefield Trinity Wildcats
Sheffield Eagles v Halifax
Castleford Tigers v Huddersfield Giants
Rochdale Hornets v Batley Bulldogs
Catalans Dragons v Gateshead Thunder
Salford City Reds v Wigan Warriors.

You clearly have too much time on your hands

: Tue Apr 07, 2009 11:21 am  

Wire vs Wigan at the HJ would be awesome. The return of Gleeson

: Tue Apr 07, 2009 11:26 am  

Dean Richmond wrote:

Wire vs Wigan at the HJ would be awesome. The return of Gleeson

I'd rather face someone like Wigan in the final and get a few more easier draws upto then.

: Tue Apr 07, 2009 12:14 pm  

Purplehaze wrote:

You clearly have too much time on your hands

Took about 30 seconds.

: Tue Apr 07, 2009 12:15 pm  

Dean Richmond wrote:

Wire vs Wigan at the HJ would be awesome. The return of Gleeson

I'd go for that but beating them at Wembley would also be nice.