Quote ="prehensile"It has never happened. In fact, there has never been a finalist from outside the top division. The following teams made it to the semi-finals from outside the top flight:
Oldham 1963-64
Halifax 1979-80
York 1983-84
Widnes 1996
Toulouse 2005'"
Now wait just one minute, you can't just come barging in here with your statistics and facts and ruin a perfectly well reasoned argument that people are having!
Next you'll be posting crowd figures from the earlier rounds of the CC from the pre-SL era that also show very little difference to the attendances that early round cup games get today!
Shame on you!