no i dont know the dates yet just booked a few weekends in feb just in case can cancel without charge so hopfully will pay off because we left it to late this year to get a city hotel. they will probaly change the month and place knowing my luck lol

Yea clearly


I've lived in London - worst place I have ever lived. Dirty awful place, and the rudest people in the country
I have lived in Cardiff - Fantastic place. Fantastic people.

You might want to find out who you are insulting before doing so. As for insular northerner, I think you will find that most people in London have no clue what happens outside the M25 and some of it are proud of it! I go to London when I have to and never enjoy it.

Anywhere where I get abuse for wearing a rugby league shirt by a shandy drinking rah rah fan is not somewhere I want to be. Stick with Cardiff, you can have an intelligent conversation with them and there is always the common ground, our mutal contempt for English RU.

The Metro ad was ran again this week too apparently, Graham.

I have doubts that any PL football club would allow their pitch to be used for two days even in off season. Newcastle is a good shout but I cant see them allowing it.

Cardiff is a great venue, I would just move it to May or june and have the weekender as a summer event!!

If during your stay in London you refered to people as "COCKneys" to quote you (something which in that maner is probably quite insulting and almost could be deemed as a racist type of comment) is it any wonder people were rude to you. Or maybe in your little world its fine for you to be rude and insulting but not for others.
As for London being a dirty awful place you could find examples of that in every major city in the world including Cardiff. So a generalistion is not the best way to add to an arguement.
I have worn RL shirts in London just about every day for over 20 years now. Never ever have I been abused. I have had banter in the same way I would with other Rugby League supporters. Never abuse. But maybe that comes back to you being rude and insulting as I stated earlier. Equally if you start from a point of "contempt" for a sport then you are hardly likley to find anything but contempt from those who have an opposite point of view.
In 20 years I have found the population of London to be a great ethnic mix of nationalities. The British (those born in GB) population in London is also a fantastic mix of all areas of GB all willing to learn from others. Those that are not prepared to do that tend to be the ones who disappear back to where they came from having never had the ability to fit in. Maybe....just maybe......

Have it at the Olympic Stadium 2013 [uIN SUMMER [/u
Reasons for

1) The travel links will be fantastic
2) Develops the game that is already developing at quite a rate down here (May help Quins gates)
3) Easier for the French to come over
4) Big new stadium, will attract people who want to experience the whole new site.
5) On the (lazy) media's doorstep
6) Plenty of hotels and other things to do
7) It's an easy sell for sponsors
8) It's the tourist hotspot of the UK



Lived here 10 years, i can count the 'Cockneys' i've met on one hand.

I've met a handful of union fans (there are all mainly in the South West/East of London) trust me it's just Football here

Good post, i, to a large degree, concur with that.

Got to agree with that summary, London has it all, and like it or not has a great history of Rugby League, be it the Challenge Cup Final, International games, and World Cup Finals.

Also if theres anywhere we need to promote the game, surely its got to be London?

Of course i'm only a simple flat cap Cas fan, so I do apologise for backing such an idea

You're clearly confused. Either a Flatcapper or a Cas fan. Not both.

Newcastle in May would be good, city centre venue and eighth best party city in the world!
They are certainly looking for more ways to attract people to the area, the pilot to keep the town open after 5pm every day has been very successful apparently. Get on to Gateshead/Newcastle council to make a bid
Not as if the owner of Newcastle United is adverse to some extra cash either
Friday night game at gateshead stadium to start the weekend, hopefully some cash to rebuild the Thunder and grow local interest, we already get the SLS on BBC NE&Cumbria
Good train links to Yorks and Lancs
Stadium is big enough and if football groundsman cant get their pitch to recover from May to August then they should be fired! RL groundsman manage fine while there are games being played
Rugby Union are going to hold a world cup game there apparently so let's get in first

See, I made the distinction, subtle but it was there



In all seriousness, the point of the Magic weekend has got to be to spread the gospel of RL.

London has got to be a must...surley