Yeah i thought that was a bit harsh really. Felt sorry for people during my 10 min walk home

Wednesdays is cutting it fine It should have been pushed right after Xmas! What good is it 3 days before people would have plans you cant say oh this weekend there is rugby all weekend, and expect a massive uptake. People need time to plan and arrange things. Bands at the millenium or cia have posters and stuff
Up months in advance. Also having it In the middle of 6 nations might have stopped some people going who were interested in checking it out. I.e the whole I'm going to watch Wales on the tv or the mrs says we have to have a family day as I went to the home game last week issue.

They did. The "RL Community" consists of about 30,000 hardcore supporters who are happy to travel long distances to watch as much rugby as they can + 200-300,000 fans of varying degrees of enthusiasm and commitment. The event was aimed at the hardcore fans as a live event and the rest as a televised event.

Not as sorry as they would have felt for you having to live in Cardiff

Yes i would sacrifice living on cathedral road, with my view of bute park for east hull any day of the week.

I think I would still prefer to live in East Hull.

Cardiff has to be one of the worst cities I have ever had the misfortune to go to. It has a yearly average of 364 days of torrential rain, relieved only by one day of light drizzle.

Cardiff us the worst city? I see your Cardiff and raise you Portsmouth

Actually I might just concede defeat with that one.

Well played sir.

It was a good weekend of rugby. We watched all but Quins/Cats on the saturday and missed the Crusaders/Salford game on the sunday. Nice to mingle with lots of fans from different teams and even though you are not a fan of the other teams playing you know the underdog will get the majority of the crowd cheering for them.

Considering it was February, it was warmer than it was in Edinburgh last year. Plenty of pubs in close vicinity to the ground and we spotted no trouble in any of them. The fact it was the season openers made it more enjoyable as well for me.

Lived in Cardiff for a year back in the early 90s, and it is indeed the wettest, windiest and coldest city I've ever visited. And I come from Manchester.

As a city though, found it fairly pleasant, even if it was next to impossible to find RL coverage or publications back then.

CARDIFF? That is the worst spelling on Manchester I have ever seen.