I don't think we should scrap these weekends!!! We need to give Cardiff a second chance and then those people who keep banging on about not going Edinburgh because it's not as good as Cardiff can go!!! I think Cardiff has everything including the right location.

Go back to Cardiff bring back derbies or make the games big ones!! E.g. Leeds v St's Us v Wigan Hull v Hull kr etc etc

I'll just go wherever it is, whether it's a start of season weekend in Manchester/Newcastle/London, or whether it's as it is now. The only place I probably wouldn't go is Dublin, and that's only because you have to take out a mortgage every time you buy a beer.

Sums it up perfectly, I have been to the other 3, not going this year as I wasn't impressed with it in Edinburgh last year. If it was moved back to Cardiff I would be there in a flash but I am in no rush to go back to it as it stands.

Carlsberg don't do bad ideas, but if they did they'd be as bad a this one....

I would have put the following games;

Saturday
Bradford vs Wakefield
Catalans vs Harlequins
Hull KR vs Hull FC
Warrington vs Wigan

Sunday
Crusaders vs Salford
Castleford vs Huddersfield
Leeds vs Saints



A mix of big games and derbies

Apparently the clubs voted against derbies. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Weekend

Apparently the clubs voted against derbies. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Weekend

The Magic weekend should be scrapped and 1 extra team should be added to super league.
A heartland team not a part of the country that has no interest like London or wales or Scotland or Ireland and not another froggie team either

Quote ="Wires71"Apparently the clubs voted against derbies. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Weekend'" I've not even read your link but it's pretty obvious why. In fact I was about to make a post while reading this thread suggesting the teams would prefer random fixtures, well, most teams.

Quote ="Wires71"Apparently the clubs voted against derbies. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Weekend'" I've not even read your link but it's pretty obvious why. In fact I was about to make a post while reading this thread suggesting the teams would prefer random fixtures, well, most teams.

Noo,
the magic weekend should be kept as the last 16 of the cup, THEN add one more team, probably from the heartlands i.e. Widnes

Well I shall be going this weekend and am really looking forward to it. I've never been to a magic weekend before so fortunately will not have anything to compare it with. For me its not just about the rugby it's the banter with the other fans and having the opportunity of watching the teams we love to hate but that we secretly admire too.

Im extremely happy playing Salford, much better chance of getting the two points and moving top, rather than playing, say, Wigan and losing and them increasing the lead. Go back to derbys. Wigan Vs Sts, Wire Vs Salford

Possible places to play
[u
Newcastle[/u (good night out)
[uEmirates[/u (Islington Angel decent night out, good stadium helps bring it to Landon and the media types)
[uMillennium Stadium [/u(Cardiff and Wales like their rugby, plus bad weather aversion with the roof)
[uDublin[/u (personally don't see the point)
[uTwickenham[/u (waits for abuse) could help out Quins
[uEdinburgh[/u (nice city but no one seems to be interested)
Not Wembley or Old Trafford for obvious reasons
[uVilla Park[/u (whose to say the midlands wouldn't be a good idea)
[uParis[/u (If Ireland is being talked about why not the capital of a country that actually have teams playing in our comp)

Thoughts ?

If the Welsh tourist board/RFU wouldn't advertise/support it then why keep it there. 90% of locals had no idea what was going on, that's why it was moved.


Derbies would be good for supporters but in fairness of the game/league, seeded games are to be preferred (indeed by clubs).

Don't think Edinburgh is the right place for it, unfortunately. I would suggest (in this order):

Newcastle (representatives were there last year, but as Newcastle United are back in Premier league I doubt it'll happen).
Villa Park (unexplored territory which should be looked into. Big city so plenty of accommodation).
City of Man.. (heartland, good way to open season, begin and end in cosmopolitan manchester. However if Oasis couldn't get to play there, 7 game of Rugby league...).

No to Newcastle, Emirates, Dublin, Twickenham, Villa Park (Birmingham is a horrible place), Paris (what a disaster that would be.

Just scrap it, this season we are getting an average of 65,000 per Superleague round, so if we cant even match that over two days then whats the point. If they do persist with it, it needs to be somewhere where its easy to get to and has plenty of bars around (so both rule out Leeds). Cardiff is the obvious choice but i can see why they left.

As fans we have our Wembley weekend away, Grand final night and a possible trip to Perpignan, so why question why fans dont want to turn up to a place like Edinburgh?

would go with
Sat
Sts V Leeds
Quins v Catal
Wigan V Warrington
Castl V Wake

Sunday
Salford V Crusa
Bradf V Hudds
Hull fc V Hull kr
not bothered in what order


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Clubs voted against the Derbies when the league consisted of the "additional" fixtures and there tended to be three Derbies already in the fixtures. The fourth at the Millenium Madness was considered to be over the top.

Now that the extra fixtures have gone I see no reason why they shouldn't return for the "Madness" weekend. If the fixtures were Hull v Hull KR, Wigan v Saints, Leeds v Bradford, Wakey v Cas, Wire v Crusaders, Salford v Hudds and Harlequins v Catalans I would be going this weekend for at least one day. As it is I will not be in Edinburgh and will pick and choose games on the tv (alright probably watch them all).

How would that be fair if our extra game was against Saints, yet you seem happy to play Crusaders??? Thats the reason why i dont like the derbies, Its not a fair concept.

Suprised at your "avatar" as you surely think the NRL is an un-fair competition considering how the fixtures are done.

However you have the fixtures somebody is going to have to play Warrington and claim its un-fair on them.

Definitely could be a shout for somewhere like City of Manc (wasn't there once talk of Sale Sharks potentially ground sharing a few years back?) As a good a day out Edinburgh is really seems strange that we are playing rugby league in a country which you sense just isn't that interested. Also agree we should have a return to derbys, if your spending your money to get up there and accomodation etc you want to seem some decent matches.

Lets travel with it every year, people go once then get a little bored after that when the novelty has worn off.
Move it around and keep it fresh

Hardly as they are not extra games, its because there are 16 teams in the league and they dont want 30 regular games. Nobody has to play anyone 3 times in extra games, so how is that unfair? Typical lack of NRL knowledge.

Suggesting Superleage teams should play an extra game and have derbies is completely unfair, like is said why should Wigan have to play Saints an extra time??? Basically you want all your rivals to play each other and they Wire play a shocker of a team in Salford. If they have the Magic weekend, the only way they should do the fixtures is by a draw like they have done this year.

I'll admit im jelous that you got to play Salford, anyone would have beaten them today, good win though.

What i can't understand is why the games are played on this particular weekend ( i know it's a long weekend for most people) when the various football leagues are at the business end of the season and are likely to take precedence in the minds of the people we are trying to convert to RL.
As for Cardiff as opposed to Edinburgh i have been to neither but my opinion is that Cardiff being kept for a few years could have helped the concept of the fledgling Crusaders club in its early days. As for Edinburgh ,surely the city is the Scottish equivalent of Twickenham in its love of Union, & League will find it very difficult to find a toehold if ,for that matter,the people have any interest at all in Rugby League.

I actually enjoyed yesterday (from the armchair). First time I've ever enjoyed the marathon of watching four games back to back. They were all different games, all gave you somebody to cheer for, good stuff.

Agree with that it was ok watching with a beer in the comfort off your own home.But i think juging by the empty seats i would have been a bit dissapionted with it,if i went to watch it live.

Saturday attendance was 26,642. A bit more than I thought but down by 10% on 2009 (29,627).