First off I am for the weekend concept where ever it is held, what I dont understand is why all the negativity? I am gutted that I can not go as I am working. Why does the thought of 7 games for a pittance turn you all off? if you had to go to those games at the club grounds it would cost you over £125 plus travel let alone the time involved. Also every one keeps harping on about the resession well I am sorry if you cant aford to go that is financfial reality. This game of ours will not survive if we dont try & spread its no good having the best game if it stays in the two counties, SKY want to sell dishes & advertising accross the whole of the UK & as all sports the target audiance is middle income wage earners who can afford to finance full time professional teams. Union has no problem getting reasonable crowds to travel all over Europe to follow thier club then country & pay a dammed sight more than you do for league & yet they are still having trouble financing thier game. We had all better hope that the idea brings in more fans or we will loose out to games not a patch on League. It is just a sad fact that league has out grown its working class only roots like it or not it was a fact of going full time in 1995.

I dont know why any RL fan worth there salt would slate the Magic weekend fair enough if you dont like it but dont knock it for the people that do.

I walked inot my golfclub this afternoon in Derbyshire, and the RU was playing, no one had a clue that RL was on until I changed it over. Expansion has been tried for donkey's years, it will not work, cultures are defined many many years ago.

The 'Magic' Weekend should be scrapped. It's just pointless. I can understand the idea if you are looking for expansion, but bloody Scotland? They haven't got a proper football league, Union is almost non-existant apart from the farce of their national side and there is no league at all.

You can keep banging on about this all you want, I'll put it simply so you can understand -

[sizeNO FOOTBALL CLUB WANTS 7 GAMES PLAYED ON THEIR PITCH[/size, you you get that? FFS!

Did you wander around with your eyes shut?



It was the semi of their major European club comp mate, hardly your average club match



You mean the weekend when they play the soccer playoffs?
Strange, with all those events they still managed to show three games of RL live...

So dont use a football stadium then

If moved to the back end of May bank holiday it would not be in the football season anyways

Anyways next stop Dublin

That would be the May Bank holiday that the Soccer playoffs are played then?

The long and short of it is no soccer club will pay us £500k to rip up their pitch over 7 games, we would have to pay them, you think the game can turn down that sort of money before ticket sales are taken into account?

Why are people so obsessed with attendences???? Do you hear cricket fans moan where they have crowds of like 5 people? Of course not, because cricket fans arent narrow minded, chip on shoulder idiots.

The fans enjoy the weekend away and the RFL makes a profit so why care so much about the attendence?

Nothing, they paid us...



Why? What does it matter?



The clubs got their expenses paid.



Why are you obsessed with numbers? Do you have a little book and a ruler like Adrian Mole?

Why are you obsessed with how it looks?

Do you think someone watches the game on TV, things that was a great game but I'm not going there were too many empty seats

It wasn't hard, people with a modicum of intellect can tell the difference between a standard club game and an occasion where we spread the game to a new area.

And lets take this another way, how comfortable do you think somewhere like Elland Road would be if you had to spend 6 or 7 hours in there jammed in so it looked good on TV, no where to move, facilities that couldn't cope, an event like this needs room.