www.league.quins.co.uk/news/12181.php Great news!

www.league.quins.co.uk/news/12181.php Great news!

Belting!

cracker!!!

Great news

My move to Glasgow was cushioned that I got to watch Leeds once a year up here, ohwell!

Fantastic fantastic fantastic!

Well done the people who made this decision. Common sense. May even think about a trip down there for it.

Would it be a good idea to do the same kind of opener on a smaller basis in Championship and Championship 1? Maybe do the Championship one at Headingley and the CH1 one at the LSV/Widnes/Wire?

Brilliant- Cardiff was awesome for the weekend so looking forward to going back.

Are we still having the WCC involved team playing a week early though?

Yeeeeeessssssssssssssss

Bonza

(the second one was for Barry)

Cardiff is good but I would of liked somewhere in the heartlands in a Football Stadia that would of looked great full rather than a huge Stadium which won't look very good on TV with only half of it full. Elland Road.

I can see the Millennium Stadium every time I go to print something in work so great for me. Brightened my Friday right up too.

Might go to sample a few of the pubs after work to celebrate.

No

This will be great, should get a great crowd for it too

It will be interesting to see if the rugby league community supports this move. Everyone moaned about the move to Edinburgh, a crticism I shared.

First game of the season is normally a bumper weekend of fixtures. If they come up with the best possible lineup of games we should see a near sellout of both days.

BUT can anyone see that realistically? I can't. 30,000 would be a success, but it's time the rugby league fans who get so wound up by the sports' lack of meaning in this country and the lack of media coverage actually support the sport and attend this.

What they should have done IMO is make all clubs add £15 to their season ticket price and then let them in free for this.

Jack shoite around the stadium unlike Cardiff centre.
Open to the elements, mmmmmm luvverly in Leeds in Feb, was the snow off the ground then this past year?
7 games, on an open air pitch, over one weekend, towards the business end of the football season, yep can see uncle albert really going for that one.

Back in Cardiff, spot on.

I can't see it being a sell out but I really hope the rugby league community get behind this and get the new season off with a bang and most importantly get this as much in the public eye for attendance figures and a great event rather than for negativity. You know it makes sense.

Brilliant news!

I'd like that too, although doesn't help people actually get there / pay for accommodation.

I doubt it will sell out so why not do what the RFL did with the leeds-saints semi and just put tickets on sale for the side and two ends which will be on TV 1st? Sell bottom and middle tier tickets then once they sell out (hopefully) go from their.

Maybe an alternative to this, as season ticket holders not turning up could mean people missing out, would be to offer a discount to season ticket holders. Or if viable just great prices across the board. They're quite good anyway to be fair.

Also agree with the bottom and middle tier tickets first. Let's fill the bits that are on TV first then sell the rest. Cardiff Blues union did this a season or so back and it looked packed other than the wide pan conversion camera shots.

Terrible idea imo, Cardiff in feb. We better hope this coming winter is better than the last or else we wont even be able to get down there. Better choice than Edinburgh but I still think they should just scrap it or put it in the heartlands. Another poor attendance on the cards....

I've got to disagree. Think it is a great idea. Cardiff with the roof is the only viable option for a season opener. I also think the crowd will be way and above any of the other Magic Weekend's after four and half months of no club rugby league and the anticipation of the new season with new signings etc to factor in. Derby games look to be back too. Who would want to miss a derby game that was preceded by that amount of banter.

Great decision.

Against Glawsterr in the Heineken Cup. I was there & packing everybody into the bottom two tiers made for a much better atmosphere.
Can't wait for the 12th/13th Feb. As i'm the person responsible for sorting out the Saturday rota at work you can rest assured I won't be working that weekend!

this year we had one week in January where it snowed a bit - despite what the media would have you believe, the country carried on surviving.

In any month of the year you can have freak weather that would stop people getting to Cardiff, that is no reason not to attempt to host an event.