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

I can be as 'surley' as you like.

Holding the Magic Weekend in London is the worst idea since Clive Benson and Rupert Hedges invented an ashtray to be fitted onto the handlebars of a motorbike

Enlighten us to your reasoning behind that in the medium of 'intelligent discussion'.

According to Stephen Jones of The Sunday Times (twice voted Sports Journalist of the Year by the Sports Journalist Association!) we might as well abandon efforts to spread the League game anywhere as it'll all be in vain ... The following is a piece taken from his 'Rolling Maul' blog on February 10th:

'Millennium tragic

Anyone know what day it is on Saturday? Didn’t think so. Well, the so-called Super League of rugby league starts with every club engaged in two days of action at the Millennium Stadium.
The number of last-minute adverts in local newspapers and number of silly, stunted media 'events' confirms the observation of a friend at the Millennium Stadium that sales have been “tough".
It is not so long ago, chiefly when ex-Union players were giving the code some publicity, that many people were aware of rugby league, when it started and what was happening. These days, it all seems faded and shrouded in mist. Gone. I am sure things are different in pockets of the north-west of England and Yorkshire, but not elsewhere.
Why? It may have something to do with the fact that recent results in the code’s miniscule international game have shown that the Super League is anything but super in its attempts to produce a non-embarrassing England side.
Or is it something more significant? Is it the long and slow slide out of the public eye and even into oblivion? Rugby league points to a growth of park-pitch sport in its portfolio. But as a national game and a professional game, in terms of standards and awareness, is it on the way out entirely?'

Well here are your 'intelligent' points.

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


It's the tourist hotspot of the UK

I really can't be bothered to disagree with them all individually but I suggest you reread through them yourself and then hopefully you will see why you were being silly for typing them out in the first place.

No, i want you to counter them, or is this beyond you ?
In fact why am i even bothering with a WUM/Troll account.

Eh? You for real?

That is perhaps the worst comeback from a troll that I have seen in my life.