{"id":472045,"date":"2026-03-12T19:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/472045\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T19:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:47:08","slug":"brad-arthur-leeds-rhinos-emphasis-on-challenge-cup-unchanged-despite-recent-record-in-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/472045\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Arthur: Leeds Rhinos’ emphasis on Challenge Cup unchanged despite recent record in competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wakefield come into the game having beaten Hull FC last week<\/a> and boss Daryl Powell has the belief his side are due a big performance.<\/p>\n

Speaking to BBC Radio Leeds, Powell said: “We’ve won two from four in the league which is an alright start I think. But if you look at us at the moment, I think we can play much better.<\/p>\n

“Leeds have hit the ground absolutely flying and they’ll be pretty big favourites for this game I would say.<\/p>\n

“For us, I think there’s a really good game right around the corner and you’d like to think it’s in this game.”<\/p>\n

Wakefield most recently reached a Challenge Cup final in 1979 but the club have recent Wembley pedigree.<\/p>\n

Powell led them to victory<\/a> in the 1895 Cup against Sheffield Eagles and would love to steer them to the national stadium again.<\/p>\n

“It’s awesome for players to go and play at Wembley and still is. I know there’s bits and bobs about crowds but that’s the fans, for a player I think it’s unbelievable to get to Wembley,” Powell added.<\/p>\n

“We had a taste of it in the 1895 and you’ve only got to look at what did to the crowd and how they came out to support the team.<\/p>\n

“We had more there than Warrington that day I think. It’s still revered, it’s all about pounds, shillings and pence and how hard it is for fans to pay to go to the games.<\/p>\n

“The challenge for us is that we had a tough draw last year and this year is a tough draw and we’ve got to be tough enough to get through.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wakefield come into the game having beaten Hull FC last week and boss Daryl Powell has the belief…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-472045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}