LEIGH face the toughest challenge of all this weekend.

Not Wigan, not St Helens - but bogey club Sheffield Eagles.

The Eagles journey to Hilton Park on Sunday for their Challenge Cup 4th round clash on the back of an impressive cup record in recent times.

They have the current longest run of 10 successive appearances in the last 16.

Their last defeat at the last 32 stage was in the old 1st round of 1987 when they fell to a 8-6 defeat at home to Keighley.

This will their fifth meeting with Leigh at this stage of the competition - and Leigh have yet to win.

In 1989 Eagles won 23-17, in 1993 it was 32-5, in 1994 the score read 42-10 and last year (the only one of the four at Hilton Park) Leigh slumped 62-18.

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