less than a month to go and no word from the rfl to what entertainment we can expect apart from the games,are we going to have cheggers back doing the mascot games and what has happened to picking songs you want the band to play unless the is no band this year

Bring it local and share the 7 games over two 'derby' grounds over a weekend . eg . the KR/FC grounds , Rhinos/Bulls grounds , Cas/Wakey , OT/Salford , etc etc , and I might be interested in going .
I bet you could fill every match to capacity if it was local . Far better than a half-empty stadium if a foreign country where nobody gives a fk about RL .

Actually. forget the Cas/Wakey idea . It might not be such a good idea to hold all the games on the same field over two days .
It will wreck the grass .

I'll be saving a huge wedge load of money and watching it all from my armchair

My thoughts on this; if this were Union the whole event would be a sell out and as RL fans we would look on enviously at how much better Union is at promoting their game. This is a great idea but the halfd marketing from the RFL and parochial nature of RL fans will mean that it will ultimately fail.

Much more needs to be done to entice the local population. How about giving free entrance to the Hibs and Hearts season ticket holders?

Have a feeling this will fail spectacularly this year.
Not many people I know enjoyed the trip to Edinburgh. Certainly not in the same way as the trip to Cardiff anyhow.

Newcastle next please.

Good call for Newcastle. Stadium close to the town centre, good night life and more importantly a local club for newbie’s to further any interest gained form attending the event.

Of course the Newcastle Council must be prepared to beat whatever (if) any rival city bid to host the weekend.

after cardiff scotland was a big let down,11 of us have decided to give it a miss will save a few hundred quid. will watch from home .

Wil be going again but like many others I don't think it was a patch on the Cardiff experience.

(Having said that, it'll be hard for anything to be a patch on that moment Tansey scored at Cardiff )

I'll be there, where ever wigan go, ill go. Seton Sands year 2!

As has been said by quite a few not a patch on Cardiff but i'll still go and make the best of the weekend that I can.

Crusaders getting off to a winning start would help.

hoping to go myself
anone know of any cheap ticket deals for locals, trying to convince a few friends from scotland to go and a reduced ticket may sweeten the deal

Don't see the attraction and need for RL to be taken to Newcastle myself. There's a presence closeby in Gateshead, which has never really taken off. Rugby Union in the city isn't popular, and it's arguably the most religious football city in the UK.

I'd be very intrigued if it was taken to Dublin or Paris, however...

I suppose the big stumbling blocks on Magic weekends being held in these cities would be extortionate costs for fans.

Agreed.

Dublin Croke Park would be very interesting!

IMO with some serious, well-planned marketing the RFL and the local council in whichever city it chooses to host the weekend, it can be made into a fantastic weekend. Poor marketing will cost MM dearly IMHO. I didn't even know it was next month and I follow RL religiously.

I think this weekend is like the Titanic, fantastic idea, and according to the RFL cannot be beaten for entertainment. However when it comes to it, poor marketing will drive this idea into an iceberg.

You seriously didn't know it was next month?

There are adverts on this site, all the club's sites, the SuperLeague site, the RFL site, the RFL Mailshot, the events guide, etc.

Too many RL fans would prefer to moan about the RFL marketing rather than get behind things. This doesn't happen in many other sports. It's like the All Golds game. Everyone was moaning that the promotion was poor, yet everyone knew about the game.

FWIW, I loved Edinburgh last year and will be going again. I thought the 2nd year in Cardiff was very tired tbh, and I just hope this 2nd year doesn't feel the same this year.

If I wanted to travel for hrs to sit in a half empty stadium in a city where they hate any non local and is constantly plauged by awful weather I'd go to hull