I agree with him.

There is absolutely no publicity for it up here, I live within 30 minutes of Murrayfield, the only Scots who seem aware of it are the ones I have invited through work. Strikes me as a no more than an excuse for the rugby league fans to go and get ruined for a weekend away.

Graham could be seen as coming across as a 'complete tool' or 'utter weapon' here though, I don't see what he achieved by opening his mouth.

Debate amongst a section of the community.

Isn't that banned ?

I agree with Graham. I'm not a fan of MM.

Its a lot of money for a regular fixture, and its also an extra fixture which isn't needed. IMO, every team should play each other home and away and that's it before the play-offs.

Plenty time for debate after the event, rather than putting a downer on something that is due to take place in 5 days.

Graham has a propensity for shooting his mouth off - blasting the RFL for trying to take RL to other regions p*sses me off.

No doubt if the RFU had a similar event their players would hype it up rather than badmouthing it and we'd all look on enviously and whinge that the RFL doesn't have the balls to do something similar.

I suspect that it actually makes money for the game, rather than costing anything. Cardiff were rumored to be paying £500k to the RFL for the right to host it, Edinburgh are probably paying more. Add in the 30k ticket sales (around £500k), the extra tv revenue from having a big event and it is actually quite a big money spinner for the game as a whole.

I do agree on the uneven fixtures part of your comments though.

I meant for the fans. It's a lot of money for the fans for just a regular fixture. If it didn't make the RFL money then there is no way they would do it.

its not compulsory to attend you know



at the end of the day, they have put some great deals on tickets so they have made it as accessible as possible. 7 games for £20 for me, cant really complain about that - bearing in mind that a normal game costs around £20 these days.

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Personally Im against the MW for a couple of reasons

Due to the fact and like others its the credit crunch and I seriously cant afford to go to Scotland for what only is when it comes down to it another Super League game.

Secondly the amount of games over Easter is unfair on all the players in Super League. If we were to scrap the extra game over the Easter period and the Magic Weekend maybe this could help England in the long run by not having to play two extra matches. The players are knackered and they should be the ones that the RFL listen to along with the coaches of all 14 clubs. Is it any bloody wonder we can never compete with Australia and New Zealand when we run our best players into the ground.