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Doubt it in february

Consultation with supporters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When?

No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no!

I'm in Wales that weekend as well, although it's Aberystwyth for an American Football game...

The problem with this is as much as I'd like to boycott the event (2 days in cold wet Cardiff is not my idea of fun) I'll be climbing the walls for a rugby fix by then so I'll probably end up going...

I'm happy with it.

It'll be a good excuse for a day trip/weekend on a winter weekend after a long off season. I find that Magic weekends get in the way when they occur halfway through the season.

Im happy with this too.

Will be a good way to launch the season and will give some meaning to the event.

I loved this weekend.

All the supporters toghether sharing a nice cold pint out side the pub in the summer time.

I loved watching the rugby, but my memories are of all the fans interaction. It will not be the same with people freezing there bums of. I doubt many will go at all.

They did not even answer my email to them i think its time the RFL got someone with at least half a brain to run it. I think they consulted with Jamie Peacock as i seam to remember it was his suggestion.

I don't care where/when it is, I'll be there.

I just want to know how the fixtures will be arranged?

Will it be a random draw again, with the possibility of 7 "nothing" matches (like this year), or a set of derbies, thus handing the advantage to teams like Warrington?

How about a top-6 versus bottom 8 as we've had in the past, which hands a clear advantage to any team that vastly improves during the off-season?

There really isn't any good way to decide on a bunch of extra matches, is there?

Seems there hoping after the off season everyones need for a rugby fix will make them turn up in better numbers than they have been for the others.

Tenerife and t.v. seems a better option .

roof closed heating on..jobs a good un

Just hope we are playing St.Helens.

Hoffman, Finch, Lima on debut for Wigan.

Perry, Shenton on debut for them.

Absolute kak.

No mention of where the WCC and the couple of fixtures that get re-arranged as a result of it will fit in with this. Don't Quins and the team playing in the World Club usually get one of the regular weekly matches moved out to the start of the calendar to accomodate fixtures against the visiting NRL champs? I hope if the RFL are making the Magic Weekend the 'curtain raiser', they don't balls the impact of it up by having a couple of matches taking place the weekend before.

The dates they've given are a week later than this season started, and two weeks later than Leeds and Quins' first matches (against Crusaders and Wakey) - that may cover it for this to be the first round of games for all teams?

Fingers crossed things don't backfire with the weather too, as clearly someone's forgotten that this Super League season kicked off in Wales with a match in the snow!

How much rubbish can the RFL pile on our game?
In Summer the stadium looks only a quarter full, what it will be like in the middle of winter is anyone's guess.
Remember February this year with snow, roads and rail lines blocked and airports shut. Never mind fans not going, if it's anything like last year the teams won't even make it!
The silver lining could well be that it's such a disaster that it will be the final one.
Then we can have a League fixture list that makes sense with fourteen clubs and twenty six games where each club plays each other twice.

No there isn't which is why it should be scrapped.

Is the 2011 Millennium Magic actually an extra fixture though? The BBC says SL will kick off with the first round at Cardiff which implies to me its the first regular fixture and not an extra round.

Dave

It wont be any colder than Murrayfield was even if it is in February. That place was just freezing! I will be going, Cardiff is a great place imo.

It's the Magic round normally played in May brought forward to the first week, so it is the extra fixture.
It's also the second week of the Rugby Union six nations tournament, anyone expecting to watch the other RL games in the pub and then watch their game at the Millenium Stadium is going to be hugely disappointed.

Shame the hotel prices have doubled as usual in the city centre and most hotels are fully booked. I have had to b ook a hotel 3 miles outside of the city centre to get a good hotel and price.

The RFL needs to have a 5 year plan in place so people can plan these weekends away better, the tickets are not even sale yet!

I like the idea. So what if its cold? Where the appropriate clothing. I remember we started the season at Quins the other year and we took a good few down there. Everyone will be buzzing for the new season by then and i think it will be more successful than the last couple of seasons.

Get some big fixtures on like Wigan v Wire, Saints v Leeds, Hull Derby. Personally I never sit through the other games anyway so it will be just like a normal away game with the added bonus of being in a top city and a decent stadium. Good decision I think.

firstly, i'm sure there will be plenty of pubs around Cardiff that will be happy to accomodate a few hundred people that want to watch the RL, regardless of what else is on the telly.

secondly, i've never understood why anyone would want to travel all the way to Cardiff / Edinburgh to watch games on the TV in a pub, when they have a ticket to watch the game 'live'.

I certainly echo these sentiments.