just home.... we loved the weekend, had a two night family break in the city centre, wasn't cheap but we spent what we chose to! we went last year but the big diff was a smaller crowd and therefore the atmosphere suffered greatly....maybe a move to somewhere closer that people could easily travel to and home within the day to see the matches would benefit the 'magic' concept!!

and yes mark_w i agree!!

Fantastic isn't it ?

I remember when our club used to be laughed out of court .... I'm with Millwall on this one : "No one likes us ... We don't care"

All those bitter, bitter Wakefield fans on Saturday night and having to choke on their beer for the rest of the evening. The 'best' they could come up with is a 'Melbourne' jibe (a team that needed to cheat to beat us).

The problem is with holding the game at Old Trafford is that Sir Alex Taggart hates anyone but his beloved Man U setting foot on the pitch and the only reason the GF is held there is that the RFL pays big bucks to the Reds to do so.

Remember when they had the World Cup Final there in October 2000 ? Taggart was still blaming League for a defeat about eight weeks later.

As an alternative Scottish Magic Weekend venue ... May I cordially suggest :



Ochilview Park - Stenhousemuir

It boasts the following great features :

- A bus service to Falkirk (which occasionally goes after 6pm on Sundays)

- A Premier Inn, so teams can be accomodated in comfort

- The Highland Toffee Factory next door

- Several branches of Greggs, so you need never go hungry.

- A Bank Of Scotland cash machine

- A world class stadium that can hold over 3500 fans

- Interesting roundabouts

- Keith Chegwin's never been there

So come on RFL, next magic weekend, why not give Stenhousemuir a go ?

Given the parochial nature of our sport, how big is the market to sit and watch SIX other games featuring teams you spent 99% of the rest of the time hating ?

Is there that big a 'casual' market for a round of ordinary league matches (especially, as CGH has pointed out, most of that time you're spent freezing your extremities off or suffering from cramp in the seats) ?

Haven't a clue mate - their fekkin' season seems to last forever.