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| Quote TheArmChairRef="TheArmChairRef"Blackpool...a great venue for all the family'"
Blackpool where the streets aren't so much paved with gold as stale beer, urine, vomit and STDs.
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| It would seem fair to say that the idea of the magic weekend isn't quite dead in the water just yet, judging by the positive ideas that are being posted. Somewhere with a beach nearby sounds good, as Finglas pointed out we are a summer sport and should be promoting ourselves as such.
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| Quote TheArmChairRef="TheArmChairRef"Its got to be Blackpool in August.
Newly in the Premiership, nice compact ground that could be filled and a great venue for all the family, plenty of accomodation,
a CARNIVAL'"
Bloomfield road only holds 12'555
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| Quote Tony Soprano="Tony Soprano"Maybe so looking at those figures
How many people could afford or would want to have another away day in between the cup final and grand final.'"
A good point and probably the reason the playoff games are not that well attended. That's part of my reasoning. This would enable supporters of the clubs at the lower end of the league table to have their own little "grand Final" and might tempt more of them out maybe?
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| Correct me If im wrong
Wasn't the original concept of the Magic Weekend to test the waters of citys which could eventually have a Super League franchise?
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| Anywhere except Dublin.
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| Quote Ande="Ande"Anywhere except Dublin.'"
Dont be silly.
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| Quote Puig-Aubert="Puig-Aubert"Blackpool where the streets aren't so much paved with gold as stale beer, urine, vomit and STDs.'"
sgtwilko will love it then.
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| Quote Era of the Biff="Era of the Biff"sgtwilko will love it then.'"
maybe five/six years ago! I'm all settled down now perp!
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| Quote Lawrie L="Lawrie L"Correct me If im wrong
Wasn't the original concept of the Magic Weekend to test the waters of citys which could eventually have a Super League franchise?'"
I thought that was part of the published rationale, alongside the wider aims of generating publicity and supporting grass roots rugby in development areas.
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| One approach that i had ben thinking about was keeping the concept of the event and tweaking it.
As much debate exists about the validity of a 3rd 'SL' fixture.....derby/not derby matches/mismatches etc....
What about the principle of taking the quarter finals of the Challenge Cup 'on the road'.Benefits to me are that the matches are all meaningful,with something to play for.It elevates the prominence of the CC which is needed.The competition has marketability even outside 'the corridor' i believe.
Benefit is that it reduces the SL season by a week which could be used to simply start later or conclude earlier to give International preparation extra time.
Those are the pros the cons would be ...TV contracts=does the BEEB have ABSOLUTE exclusivity.Would the event need the draw tweaking(as has been suggested in the past) to bring 100% SL representation/would the CL support it?Does 2matches per day or 4 per day make a problem?
I am sure there are othe bugbears.
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