Cup Fever is Here!

It's back on the cup trail for the Leeds Rhinos again as the forth round of the Powergen Challenge Cup gets underway.
This year, Leeds will hope to go one better than last years runners-up place and travel to Leigh for a 'should-win' game on their first step on the road to wherever.
I say wherever, it should be the road to Wembley but seeing as, once again, London has proved how shit it is, it probably won't be played 'under the arch'. Instead, it'll probably be at Twickenham, but who knows. At the moment it may aswell be the road to Amarillo.
Depending on which way you look at it, Leeds either do well, or badly in the cup. Good from the point of view that, bar twice, we've got to at least the semi-finals in the last ten years and got to the final six times from the last 12 years. However, Leeds have done badly in the sense that the last time they won the thing was 1999 and the last time before that was 1978! Still, I have the obligatory, annual "funny feeling about this year".

My 'second' team Bramley got knocked out some time ago, probably because they're concentrating on the league ;) but they do have a tasty tie with the Lakers in the Northern Rail Cup. Not Kobe Bryant's Lakers, the Lakers of Doncaster - not quite as exotic is it?

After that, Leeds travel to Hull to play the team that beat us in last years cup final then it's the big one, the Yorkshire derby - Leeds Rhinos vs Bradford Bulls, the team that beat Leeds in last years Grand Final. Is their a pattern here?