hes got a right to his opinion, im another who thinks its getting out of hand. france,cardiff,london,wembley murryfield,and old trafford if you are luckky to get there, it gets very expensive if you have a family. so cas till i die just because everyone does not agree with you we are all t-----s .

Aren't you spectacularly missing the point?

MMis arranged as an EXTRA round of matches, specifically to have a big showcase weekend at a prestigious location, with saturated TV coverage.

If they didn't arrange it at such a place in such a way, there wouldn't be a game. At all. So you're not missing anything if you don't want to go, are you? You're not being "deprived" of a game?

And it's not as if you can't wacth your team - and all the others too - all weekend if you don't want to go, or can't afford it?

Oh dear what an idiot. The classic flat cappers uneducated 'time and money' comment that completely misses the point of it all.

I think its the RFL who are clueless. They promote a welsh team into superleague and move the "magic" weekend to Scotland.

They schedule the games at the time when football is coming to its final phase and cricket starts.

The supporters pump in reportingly 9-10 millionquid into the Edinburgh poulation economy where there is no prescence of rugby league.
The local people propbably get subsidised tickets while the real supports pay full price.

The matches are only available to the "sky" viewers.
If it rains over the weekend then the last 2 matches on the Sunday could be a farce if the pitch doesn't hold up.

Why can,t we just play teams home and away or maybe the RFL are thinking next magic weekend in Dubai = Clueless.

My sentiments exactly.

Here's your choice James:

Play 28 games like before MM (and then whinge about fatigue)

or

Play 26 games and take a pay cut (and then whinge about money)

or

Play MM and keep your wage.



Unjustified moans should be banned from the media. He's talking about investing money into Cumbria instead of the Magic Weekend. I don't think he realises that it's not the RFL investing money in this, it's the Tourist Boards of the successful applicants. Why would the Welsh Tourist Board invest in Cumbria?!

Idiot.

Exactly it saves money, saves games, allows an extra international window and an expansion opportunity to boot. It aint perfect, but his reasoning is really wide of the mark. You can see why he's a prop.

James Graham is spot on. The eater fixtures are a joke now - a relic of the bygone era when players clocked off from down't pit, jogged to the match, and trundled around for 80 minutes. Oh and had a good smook on't pipe after the match.

The game has moved on, but RL wants lacks the foresight or gumption to protect it's players.

All the more galling is it's lame and silly efforts to create 'magic' weekends. We know the RL isn't the best promoter of the game and is still struggling to reestablish it's credibility following the catastrophe of World Cups. Immediately springing to mind are Lebanon vs New Zealand in Reading on a cold Tuesday evening and one of the worst whitewashes in sport in recent history.

Granted the RFL have improved their efforts over the last years, but they are clearly inept when it comes to accounting for the needs of players and spreading the game in the first place.

Quite. It makes me cringe when players from Saints do this. As for complaining about travelling for 5 hours, I guess he'd better thank his stars he doesn't play soccer, where they occasionally have to leave the M62.

Graham's a very good player with the potential to become a great prop for GB, but he needs to shut up on this. After all, if we had never tried to take the game to new areas, then would any big ginger scousers find themselves playing professional rugby league and earning a nice mint out of it ?

Think on, James.

hold the world club challenge as the last match of the weekend. that way the aussies cant moan about it bein a trial game and the weekend has a real important match headlining it.

that would leave 13 sl clubs to play each other. the odd one out could play the national league grand final winner just for fun.

So the Aussies are going to send a team over here in the middle of their season? Get real.

So last years champions play 2 games over the weekend or does the team set to play the champions have the week off?