less than a month to go and no word from the rfl to what entertainment we can expect apart from the games,are we going to have cheggers back doing the mascot games and what has happened to picking songs you want the band to play unless the is no band this year

Bring it local and share the 7 games over two 'derby' grounds over a weekend . eg . the KR/FC grounds , Rhinos/Bulls grounds , Cas/Wakey , OT/Salford , etc etc , and I might be interested in going .
I bet you could fill every match to capacity if it was local . Far better than a half-empty stadium if a foreign country where nobody gives a fk about RL .

Actually. forget the Cas/Wakey idea . It might not be such a good idea to hold all the games on the same field over two days .
It will wreck the grass .

I'll be saving a huge wedge load of money and watching it all from my armchair

My thoughts on this; if this were Union the whole event would be a sell out and as RL fans we would look on enviously at how much better Union is at promoting their game. This is a great idea but the halfd marketing from the RFL and parochial nature of RL fans will mean that it will ultimately fail.

Much more needs to be done to entice the local population. How about giving free entrance to the Hibs and Hearts season ticket holders?

Have a feeling this will fail spectacularly this year.
Not many people I know enjoyed the trip to Edinburgh. Certainly not in the same way as the trip to Cardiff anyhow.

Newcastle next please.

Good call for Newcastle. Stadium close to the town centre, good night life and more importantly a local club for newbie’s to further any interest gained form attending the event.

Of course the Newcastle Council must be prepared to beat whatever (if) any rival city bid to host the weekend.

after cardiff scotland was a big let down,11 of us have decided to give it a miss will save a few hundred quid. will watch from home .

Wil be going again but like many others I don't think it was a patch on the Cardiff experience.

(Having said that, it'll be hard for anything to be a patch on that moment Tansey scored at Cardiff

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I'll be there, where ever wigan go, ill go. Seton Sands year 2!

As has been said by quite a few not a patch on Cardiff but i'll still go and make the best of the weekend that I can.

Crusaders getting off to a winning start would help.

hoping to go myself
anone know of any cheap ticket deals for locals, trying to convince a few friends from scotland to go and a reduced ticket may sweeten the deal

Don't see the attraction and need for RL to be taken to Newcastle myself. There's a presence closeby in Gateshead, which has never really taken off. Rugby Union in the city isn't popular, and it's arguably the most religious football city in the UK.

I'd be very intrigued if it was taken to Dublin or Paris, however...

I suppose the big stumbling blocks on Magic weekends being held in these cities would be extortionate costs for fans.

Agreed.

Dublin Croke Park would be very interesting!

IMO with some serious, well-planned marketing the RFL and the local council in whichever city it chooses to host the weekend, it can be made into a fantastic weekend. Poor marketing will cost MM dearly IMHO. I didn't even know it was next month and I follow RL religiously.

I think this weekend is like the Titanic, fantastic idea, and according to the RFL cannot be beaten for entertainment. However when it comes to it, poor marketing will drive this idea into an iceberg.

You seriously didn't know it was next month?

There are adverts on this site, all the club's sites, the SuperLeague site, the RFL site, the RFL Mailshot, the events guide, etc.

Too many RL fans would prefer to moan about the RFL marketing rather than get behind things. This doesn't happen in many other sports. It's like the All Golds game. Everyone was moaning that the promotion was poor, yet everyone knew about the game.

FWIW, I loved Edinburgh last year and will be going again. I thought the 2nd year in Cardiff was very tired tbh, and I just hope this 2nd year doesn't feel the same this year.

If I wanted to travel for hrs to sit in a half empty stadium in a city where they hate any non local and is constantly plauged by awful weather I'd go to hull

It should be in Cardiff and left there. So everyone can get some sort of routine going!

Edinburgh will be a better place without the likes of you boring farts!


Scots are very welcoming and there is loads to do in Edinburgh. Plus it's great to get together and have a drink with fans of other clubs. I am looking forward to the weekend.

Sssshhhh how dare you speak like that here






We'll try this in words you can understand...

No premiership or even championship club will [size=200EVER[/size allow us to play six or seven games on one pitch in two days.



Indeed, but your average RL fan will always find something to moan about, it amazes me sometimes to think the games has lasted so long with attitudes like that.

The issue is cost. I got Mrs D to agree to go for w/e but when I looked into it there are no cheap flights, driving is 6 hours plus each way so that's not feasible unless we stay another night or two. Hotels in Edinburgh have doubled their prices, so I'd stay in Glasgow and have the hassle of travelling. Taking two kids the whole thing would end up costing ca. £1,000. Quite frankly it just ain't worth it for me, especially as I don't have a close attachment to any of the teams. Daft thing is if they'd had it somewhere more accesible we'd have bought the GF and CC deal tickets too. It's a great deal on the tickets its just that Edinburgh is sadly out for us.

If you had been quick of the mark you would have got a cheap hotel (but even now they are not double the rack rate) and cheap train tickets, don't blame the event for you not being on the ball.

Seton Sands, caravan from thursday till monday for 6 of us, 145 quid

Exactly. Its too much of a burden now the novelty has worn off.



Thats good and well if the magic weekend is your priority but for most they fork out for Catalans away initially and then maybe Harlequins away before even thinking about Murrayfield. You can't lay all your cash out at once and by the time you begin to think about Murrayfield (and in truth I've not begun thinking about it yet) the costs have spiralled.

Although I think Wigan v Huddersfield will be a cracking game, it isn't a derby in any sense and we play them just two weeks later anyway. I'll be making a day trip of it, but it'll be more of a chore this year than a pleasure.

You don't have to, the vast majority of hotels pay either on arrival or departure, only Travelodge out of the budget chains take payment in advance, trains go onsale three months in advance, it doesn't take a great deal of planning to cut costs. We all knew the dates for this at the event last year, so that is a whole year people have had to sort things.

We followed the same routine when going to Cardiff, book the hotel as soon as we could, most book 12 months in advance, no deposit needed, no cancellation fee if things change, cheap rates locked in, Innkeepers lodge did it three nights for the price of two. Gives you a good amount of time to save for it.

Going up their for the first time this year so don't know what to expect so, went to Cardiff two years ago and enjoyed it.

Cannot make Edinburgh this year, but went to both Cardiffs, great concept that hopefully the RFl will keep, what about holding the event in Manchester, one day at OT 2nd day at COM, the stadiums are only 4 miles apart (according to Google) so shouldn,t be much hassle getting to either and of course the vast majority of supporters can travel over for the day.