All you had to do was walk around the stadium, as it is built on a hill part of it has no concourse but the majority does, has no issues with the loos, a bit of a queue for the ladies but isn't there always in stadiums? Plenty of paper, soap and towels and cleaned often, way better than the majority of RL stadiums.

I wonder if this was actually one of Murrayfield's plus points from the RFL's POV - greater proportion of beer bought from the ground's own bars than in Cardiff where you could sneak in and out to nearby pubs.

Would the RFL have been on a percentage of the bar take? I'd be surprised if they were, I'd have thought the stadium management would have wanted to keep that for themselves.

Stadium management get a fee from the sale of the franchises (via tender) to the caterers, profit share should be between the event promoter and the caterer.

it'll mean cheggers didn't need to run as far inbetween games.

The only improvement I'd make would be to close the top tier as I was on row Z and was absolutely freezing. I think that would work better for atmosphere as well as it would mean people were'nt as spread out.

I liked the idea of not having a concourse and sitting out on the grass in the sun warming up between matches.

Which is fantastic when the weather is good had it rained it would have been a nightmare!

'warning: it could be cold in scotland'

Oh, please God, no.

I will never fathom how anyone's experience at a sporting, or any, for that matter, event can be enhanced by dressing up like a tw*t.

I'd guess I'm probably in the minority on here, though.

Well, I went for both days and a stopover on the saturday night. Unfortunately we had to leave earlier than we would have liked on the Sunday to catch our flight back to Luton, so we missed the last two games.

The overall impression of the event was very, very positive.
I like Murrayfield and thought it was a good 'fit' for the event. Positives were you could move around a lot and there seemed to be heaps of food, drink and activities. I didn't move around the entire stadium - we were seated in the East stand so stayed in that area. Toilets were aplenty and clean. Negatives would be that the food/drink was a little overpiced, but only a little. They weren't much more than you'd normally pay but I think a little more nevertheless.

Interesting to read there was lot more activities and food/drink options on the other side of the ground - a lesson there for me I think! I liked the William Hill banter booth and thought this added to the carnival atmosphere and gave another activity to people - more of this sort of thing please! (possibly just being pleased to see myself on the youtube clip but still think its a good thing)

I thought there could have been a greater choice of merchandise - I think there was only the one t-shirt for sale with any reference whatsoever to the MW concept, the rest being England RL stuff only. Maybe there was more available elsewhere throughout the stadium - can someone advise? I think the clubs/SL/the RFL missed a trick by not having more club merchandise for sale as an example. Also, perhaps more GB merchandise, maybe some other international merchandise - French, Scottish, Welsh, Irish etc etc? I know I would have bought some mercho when sober.....then promptly backed it up with another purchase when drunk!
stick with it guys, it'll work better over time.

bring on 2010, thats what I say!

How about staging it somewhere that actually has a club that any 'new' support it attracts can actually continue their interest with?

Seriously if any Edinburgh locals attended and liked the look of the sport, what more can they do except watch a few games on sky? It's more likely to get more people into union up there than league!!

Why not have the thing in London and try and help get quins crowds up, or the north east with gateshead in the future? They could've tied MM in with celtic had they based them in cardiff, but it was another opportunity missed.

If the rfl are to continue to justify asking fans to travel all over the country to watch their club play a league game, they should at least give any new support attracted by the event, the advantage of having a club nearby to continue their support once it's finished

Perhaps they could get involved in playing for or watching rlone of these clubsrl. There's more to rugby league than the 14 full time professional in SL.

You'll be saying RL started before 1996 next.

I fully appreciate that fact and the more interest in the grass roots side of the sport, the better, but is it worth staging such a large high-profile event just to get a few extra people to visit amateur clubs?

Staging the MW in london for example could do wonders for the interest in quins if marketed correctly. As I mentioned before, the same could be said for gateshead (not a SL club btw) in the north east.

My point is that I really can't see the point of going to scotland to promote the sport when there's still so much that can be done in places like london, wales, france and even manchester, who all have professional clubs where the interest can be focussed after the event. Afterall its the top level game that gets kids playing the sport and thus many end up doing so in the amateur game.