Really looking forward to going this as it will be my first Magic weekend ever and just have a few quick questions:

1) What's the atmosphere like inside the ground? Never been to the MS in general but I imagine with the roof closed it will be good?

2) What are fans like there? Do they mix (even the rivals) or once they've had a few beers is there any trouble?

3) What's nightlife like?

4) Can you sit anywhere?

5) Is there any chance of us (Cas) losing to Wakie this year!?

Cheers guys.

To quote Barry Mackenzie "Like the moon". There will only be 25,000 people there, so I wouldn't expect an atmosphere. Horrible distant air horns and groans and cries of 'forwarrrd'.



All RL fans will tend to mix well and there will be little problem bar the odd drunken fool fighting with those around him.



Loud, brash and vulgar.



If you bought a ticket for the sit anywhere section you can.



I wouldn't have thought there was much chance of that to be honest. You should have no trouble tackling them as HMRC will probably be chasing them round the field as well.



Very sexist

You're Andy Gray and I claim my fiver!

I tend to agree but if it is anything like the challenge cup final last year then there was quite a few fights breaking out in and outside of the stadium. Lets just hope this sort of thing doesnt get worse as I fear it will

For what it is worth I have never seen any trouble at the Magic Weekend.

Unlike the Challenge Cup there aren't fans about that are in areas they don't want to be as they can generally move where they like and be near to/far enough away from fans they want to be by or not so people are generally happy.

Nightlife is great and one of my favourite cities for a good time.

Depends how you define a good time.

If your idea of a good time involves standing around in packed out pubs full of pill popping kids whom I'm not totally sure have reached the legal age for consuming alcohol (in Wales this is 12) drinking outrageously expensive pints of weak Carling extra cold (or holy water as Valley boys call it) then its fantastic.

Change the record PHIPPS.

Your general style is to put down anything and mostly anywhere, you've had a go at Widnes, Warrington, Salford, South Wales and quite a few other places and all the time keeping your current town/city a secret. Nice one.

A lot of people on here know Cardiff is a top night out and I hope people have seen that you're a wind up merchant so take your comments with a pinch of salt. Let them sample it for themselves rather than let some anonymous person put them off it on here.

Quote ="crucrucrusaders"Change the record PHIPPS. Your general style is to put down anything and mostly anywhere, you've had a go at Widnes, Warrington, Salford, South Wales and quite a few other places and all the time keeping your current town/city a secret. Nice one. A lot of people on here know Cardiff is a top night out and I hope people have seen that you're a wind up merchant so take your comments with a pinch of salt. Let them sample it for themselves rather than let some anonymous person put them off it on here.'" www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... rdiff.html Looks like a great night doesnt it?

Quote ="crucrucrusaders"Change the record PHIPPS. Your general style is to put down anything and mostly anywhere, you've had a go at Widnes, Warrington, Salford, South Wales and quite a few other places and all the time keeping your current town/city a secret. Nice one. A lot of people on here know Cardiff is a top night out and I hope people have seen that you're a wind up merchant so take your comments with a pinch of salt. Let them sample it for themselves rather than let some anonymous person put them off it on here.'" www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... rdiff.html Looks like a great night doesnt it?

ttbf to Phipps, he's not that far off on this.

tbf to Cardiff: it's not unique - typical small provincial town centre, full of loud groups of drunk teens and 20somethings. Many users on here will enjoy it.

Quote ="PHIPPS"www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1182373/Welcome-binge-Britain-Polish-photographer-documents-years-drunken-revelry-Cardiff.html Looks like a great night doesnt it? '" I knew that was coming. If you choose which photos you take you can make any city look bad. Here's London - www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... d-A-E.html Newcastle - www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... filth.html Manchester - menmedia.co.uk/manchesterevening ... hame_table All places I consider top nights out but can be made to look terrible in articles like this. You didn't even know how the train station worked so hardly the all seeing eye on such subjects are you?

Quote ="PHIPPS"www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1182373/Welcome-binge-Britain-Polish-photographer-documents-years-drunken-revelry-Cardiff.html Looks like a great night doesnt it? '" I knew that was coming. If you choose which photos you take you can make any city look bad. Here's London - www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... d-A-E.html Newcastle - www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... filth.html Manchester - menmedia.co.uk/manchesterevening ... hame_table All places I consider top nights out but can be made to look terrible in articles like this. You didn't even know how the train station worked so hardly the all seeing eye on such subjects are you?

I didn't know how the train station worked?

What on earth are you talking about?

Cardiff Central.

You said that most got off at Queen Street and also that there was more than one main way out.

Apart from one small gate at the back it is all out of the main front doors.

Somebody else pointed that out to you too.

No comment on the other places then. I wait with baited breath for you to condemn Manchester, London and Newcastle on the strength of one article.

Maybe you ought to re read the comment I posted.

I think you will find I said that on a SATURDAY AFTERNOON the vast majority of people arriving in Cardiff from up the various South Wales valleys will alight at Cardiff Queen st. Which they will. Because the train stops there first. As far as access to the pubs and shops goes there really is not a lot of difference. Maybe you are not familiar with Cardiff? Maybe you should go there one day. It's not far from Newport.

I work there every day, thanks for the geography lesson though.

Queen Street station is a lot further from the stadium than central and quite a lot of the pubs.

We're talking a rugby day here and not a shopping day too.

Why are you letting 'Phipps' derail yet another thread?

I think you will find that was crucrucrucrucrucrucrucrucrucrucrucru

I'm not going to. I just don't tolerate idiots very well.

Have a good Magic Weekend anyway.

Thanks.

I'll be honest I'm really looking forward to it. Well maybe not a Saturday night in Cardiff city centre wading through all the discarded kebab boxes, empty beer cans, piles of vomit, drunken women and bloodied and battered blokes lying all over the place. Its always an exciting time when the season starts though.

ps crucrucrucrucrucrucrucrucru

If you are travelling back on the train to Newport on Saturday night you will notice that people WILL be queueing up OUTSIDE the station in lines (in a 'bottleneck') before being allowed onto the platform by British Transport Police.

Just as I told you.

He can't help himself.
It's in PHIPPS nature to be an obnoxious .

I've been told I am a very considerate lover actually.

all three of yoe: pack it in!

There is. And you disagreed. And sadly once more you were wrong.



Thanks for changing your mind and actually confirming what I said. There IS more than one exit. This 'small gate at the back' is actually quite a large exit and is used to allow passengers who arrive on the higher numbered platforms at Central to exit the station via a shorter route than walking to the front exits opposite the bus station. You may not have known that if you arrive from Newport as I think your train would arrive on a lower numbered platform. The second exit I refer to leads directly onto Saunders Rd and just a few minutes later you find yourself on St Mary st (right outside the Walkabout)

the way people bite just encourages more behaviour like this.

when will people learn

all the effort the guy spends inventing different personas, imagine if he spent all that time learning about RL, this being a RL forum and all

enjoy the event, dont let random people on the internet whose actual interest in RL is probably marginal distract you