Is taking place in the greatest cathedral of them all - or St. James' Park - to those infrequent attendees.

Apparently Man City stadium is under development for re-expansion and therefore had to go somewhere else and SJP has won it. Official announcement is meant to be on Wed but a couple of the local papers have it in today.

I personally think this is mint and will probably go to both days if it happens, though the prospect of wearing a non black and white top seems a bit odd! Should be cool though if right - probably not great for a lot of you but you can get yourselves some stotties for lunch and a supply to bring back to Yorkshire and have fun with it!

Maybe I can knock up a 'half and half' shirt like the Rhinos do after trophy wins; half black and white, half blue and amber!

Hope you all come up and enjoy it if you do

Great news.excellent stadium, great city and top night out.will be making a good weekend of it next year.good choice RFL.

Bigg market here we come!!. Well not quite, as I am the wrong side of sixty. But as to all you young bucks I will be with you in spirit .

Good decision - close enough to make the day trip realistic but far enough away to make a weekend away worth it.

For those seeking a little cultural distraction to their weekend away then by all means have a most pleasant stroll along the quayside but give The Baltic contemporary art gallery a swerve, never in the history of The Kings New Clothes Art Genre has so little bilge been presented in the name of art in one building, the only reason they dont charge entry is because theyd be inundated with refund requests all day long.

Apart from that you should have a good time in my wifes home city.

I feel obliged to direct a few of you to the real ale watering holes in the city. Look forward to seeing you - even those that chuck insults around when people disagree! Obviously if you are a Mackem this may need reviewing!

They are putting a (permanent) big screen up on the side of the Leazes end in the coming weeks. When you get tickets you will best be able to see it from the Leazes end or the Milburn stand. Look forward to having you all

Stadium is bang in the centre - the cathedral on a hill overlooking the city! China town is pretty much opposite, the shops and shopping centre are a 5 minute walk, the quayside 10 minutes, the train station 5-10 minutes and the Bigg market and all that is 5 minutes.

I hope that a lot of the locals turn out and get interested in it. I will certainly be banging the drum enough with all my friends and family that I recknon I can get some of them to go just to shut me up, if nothing else!

A week before my Wedding.
Not sure I'll get away with it...gutted.

'Stag' excuse, surely?

So Newcastle is the destination for the pointless extra round.

Be interesting to see how the magic weekend fits in with the new format. I presume it is before the top 8 split, in which case there could be claims of unfair fixtures.

I was surprised to hear that Coventry was under consideration. I would have been very happy with that outcome!

Well it would have looked full at Coventry

Yeah, it'd be nice if we actually had a fair and even set of fixtures for once, like nearly every other sport on the planet.