- Warrington 12-16 Wakefield
- Trinity will play Wigan in quarter-finals
It was John Kear, the rugby league coach who created Challenge Cup history with Sheffield Eagles in 1998, who described coaching as chaos, a sentiment Daryl Powell would certainly agree with right now.
For three weeks, it appeared a seamless transition into the role of Warrington head coach for Powell, with three successive wins to start the new Super League season and his tenure at the club. But his exasperated reactions here as his side’s Challenge Cup hopes slipped away in excruciating fashion emphasised how the honeymoon period is now emphatically over for him.
