I don't know where i stand with the magic weekend

1st. teams should play each other twice 1 home 1 away

Why not have the semis and final of CC or all the Playoff games travelling the country instead.

Why Scotland when they have no teams in the top divisions at all and play nowt but the other code

Would a better place not be Paris at the Stade de Francais the french have 2 teams lets get the rest of France interested. the Nou camp in Barcelona the game is really starting to take off in that region of Spain or Germany were the game is in its infancy but people are starting to show interest in it.

Scotland although it would be great to have a team in SL from there seem to be stuck in the Yawnnion ways.

Is it really any surprise that this great game of ours hasn't spread as much as we would have liked in tha past 100 years with attitudes like this?

Why the hell is he being given air time with these thoughts?

If fans don't want to go, they won't and it will soon come to an end, however the last couple of years have been brilliant events, and Edinburgh have come in and paid to have this event there. I nipped on the SRU website the other day, and we are the lead story there. On a RU website!

I know this event can be expensive, but generally you can make it as expensive as you want. This can easily be done on the cheap. I'm staying in Glasgow on the Friday and Saturday before staying in Edinburgh on the Sunday night to keep costs manageable. As a sport in general, it is pretty cheap, so one event like this IMO is great.

I would be interested to know how many locals actually go to the game (and paid)

The game hasn't spread because it is not universally as popular as other sports. I personally quite like RL but I know its not the be all and end all. It's a strong, vibrant, regional sport and there is nothing wrong with that.

£37.50 plus beer and a pack lunch is not £500!

that's how much it's costing me



£500

Are you sleeping rough Slim?

Or are you hoping to get lucky?

Don't know what your spending your money on but someone could certainly have a good time in a place like Edinburgh with 500 quid!

Oh and sulking Saints player after lost shock!

Yeah mate a weekend of excess beer, rugby and women what more can a man ask for????



Us Wire fans don't get many days out at events so god damm right I like the magic weekend!!!

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Quote ="Inside Knowledge"Here you pants £28.50. www.warringtonwolves.org/news/Wolves38700.ink'" thanks jamie, but if i was going it would be for the full weekend not just the day anyway this pig flu thing has put the final nail in the coffin for me. dont fancy being cooped up with lots of people at this particular moment in time enjoy yourself though lad, and if you cant be good be careful

Quote ="Inside Knowledge"Here you pants £28.50. www.warringtonwolves.org/news/Wolves38700.ink'" thanks jamie, but if i was going it would be for the full weekend not just the day anyway this pig flu thing has put the final nail in the coffin for me. dont fancy being cooped up with lots of people at this particular moment in time enjoy yourself though lad, and if you cant be good be careful

Saints player in world class whinge ....shock

I dont think the magic weekend should be scrapped. We have to be one of very few sports to be able to have every team from the top flight playing in the same city in one weekend with all the fans sitting next to each other in the stadiums, buying each other pints, singing anc chanting loudly in pubs with all different versions going on & being able to watch a great sport = 7 games for as little as a fiver! You cant go wrong on that front. However i do feel Edinburgh will be a let down, im looking forward to it dont get me wrond but I think Cardiff just had everything.

Someone said to me yesterday that instead of the RFL getting sponsership for the Mascot games - why not get sponsership for the weekend - we can have Vestas Millenium Magic or whatever and then the sponsership money should be divided to all the clubs to put on discount coaches - even if these would be just for the day and that in itself can boost crowds attendances.

I agree with that - it means that people who say money is tight - they can still have a chance of going if it something like a tenner or less for coach and a fiver for the games - it would be like going to Leeds - just a little longer.

Maybe move the Magic weekend to the Midlans - The Quins chief said that they need a middle man in the UK - London - North, he asked about London - Midlands - North. The east midlands stadiums are 30k and the west not much better except for Villa Park...

Midlands Magic that has a bit of a ring to it actually, would Birmingham have the attraction though in terms of pubs, clubs, culture to attract your RL fan?

Are you going Edinburgh then Wolfboy with your mum? Be good to see her again after meeting her in Tunisia of all places!

Yup - going sat till mon.

Yeah the mothers going - fri-mon.

interesting - this will be my first magic weekend. travel and 3 nights for less than 250 quid....from london.

i'll be interested to see what the whole event is like, but i do think more locals need to be attracted. if you can get even 5k scots there, then it will have been worthwhile.

on the cumbria front, weren't workington in super league at the beginning? also, wasn't a cumbrian "national" team muted, with the championship teams feeding into it?

it does look like barrow will be putting a bid for a 2012 franchise together. they seem to have a much improved playing staff, but the ground will need a huge overhall.

Sound might see you up there we are leaving Wazza at 9am on Saturday staying over till Mon, tell your mum Des aka Ste said hello and will look out for her at Murrayfield!

Its only costing us lot 30 each for tour bus, £55 for hotel (2 nights) and £12.50 for a ticket - less than £100 in all, so that’s a bargin. The expensive bit is beer money gonna need £100 a day for that!!!!

Ok Des aka Ste, ill tell her.

Thats a good deal - We will be ahead I reckon - probs leaving a little earlier - im not sure...

James Graham is a complete imbecile. Sadly, reading this board reminds me that most of my fellow Warrington fans are too.

You mean you forgot?

Why do you think Edinburgh will be a let down? There is a lot of negativity around Edinburgh from some fans, and I don't get it. Edinburgh is much more of a tourist city that Cardiff, and basically Cardiff Tourist Board and the WRU just didn;t do enough to make the RFL want to keep it there.

I ent to both years at Cardiff, and felt that it was at risk of becoming stale if it would have been held there again.

People keep spouting off that it is miles away from everything, well actually it is 1.4m to Princes Street, which is a 20-30m walk, or a few minutes in the bus.
Cardiff didn't really allow for any activities outside of the stadium, and I am looking forward to things like the Tag tournament with some legends being involved.

As for your points about Sponsorship, well this is an engage event, as it is Super League.

As for affordability, the event is very affordable. It is costing me less than Cardiff, staying in better hotels, and for 3 nights rather than 2. I will be watching 7 games for the price of £12.50, so ticket prices are spot on!

If people can't afford to go, or decide they don't want to, fine, but I don't understand the complaints about Edinburgh and Murrayfield.

Well what else would there to talk about the weekend!

Maybe some of the people complaining haven't been to Edinburgh before, its one of the best cities to visit in the UK.

agree 100 per cent with that - beautiful city and its not called " The Athens of the North" without good reason - its not really comparable to Cardiff in many ways at all .


Cant make it myself unfortunately but
im sure those who have decided to go will enjoy Edinburgh -

That was rugby league showcasing its game to the nation, if you were a major sponsor thinking of getting into rugby league then you would be thinking twice right now as you wouldn`t want your product to be associated with a two thirds empty stadium. Sky did its best to conceal how few people were at the magic weekend with some clever camera work but even they couldn`t hide how few people had turned up.

I wanted the magic weekend to be a success from the moment it started in Cardiff but you have to face upto facts here, the only real winners are the cities that stage the games as Edingburgh made around £10 million from the event and also the RFL who got a few quid in its back pocket.

The image of our game is the most important factor here and it took a massive knock in Edingburgh, if they are going to continue with the magic weekend then they need smaller stadiums to stage the event in as the atmosphere gets lost in a ground thats two thirds empty and its embarrassing to our game to have a stadium so empty for such a major event with the nation watching on and possibly the world if it went out to Australia.

Putting the stadiums thing to one side, I'm just not convinced by it at all. As a TV viewer, I found it so difficult to maintain the enthusiasm game after game, I mean, I watched every second of every game, but man alive, I felt like I'd played, really tough. As someone who literally sits in work, and thinks "Great, Castleford v Leeds tonight" on a Friday, I just found it overload, and a bit of a turn off in truth.

As for the standard of rugby, it's weird watching it, I don't know how to explain it, there's something sort of 'testamonial' about it. It doesn't seem real somehow, it normally hurts like hell getting beat, home or away, but somehow this doesn't, I can't explan it really. The atmosphere, it's like your watching Rugby Union 7's on SKY, at Twickenham, when there's patchy support, the odd roar, when a Fijiaan jinks his way through from his own half past the entire Army side.

Difficult to explain, but everything I love about RL gets lost in tranlastion at this somehow.