Scrap it.

Too expensive, tricky to get to, the weather wont be nice. The list could go on.

At the very least, i'd play it in summer in a place thats easier to get to (for the majority who are going).

Plus unless its a draw, theres always going to be the argument that the RFL have given some teams a harder fixture than others.

Waste of time.

To be honest I'm still not sure what the KEY point of this exercise is.

Perhaps someone will enlighten me.

The KEY point is to have an event on the calender of comparable level to the cup and grand final.

However, the format of this year's MW (local derbys, season opener) is such that I agree it would have been better had it been hosted in the heartlands as I feel we'd have seen much better crowds if the event was at somewhere like Old Trafford or City of Manchester stadium etc.

Thats a good point,but i dont think too many premiership football clubs would be wanting 7 games of rugby legue played on their precious turf over 2 days in February,i dont think they would be too keen to host it in the summer either,

Good concept but in the wrong competition.
In SL it's the 27th and extra game. It's not needed and not wanted.

Move it to the Challenge Cup.
SL clubs come in at the last 16 stage, then have the MM at somewhere like Bramhall Lane where everyone can do the journey in a day quite easily.
With eight CC games over two days mainly between SL clubs the place would be packed.
It would make money, be a great event with a full house for all the games.

Do you think the BBC would give it the same coverage as SKY though?

Why would the place be packed? The majority would surely do what they do now, which is watch their own game and pick and mix the rest. Even if it were sold out I doubt it would ever be more than a third full at any given moment.

I've always thought of the magic weekend as a good idea in theory, but a bit of an anti-climax in reality.
The Challenge Cup idea is a good one, but again, I doubt it will work.

The simple fact is RL fans don't turn out for events like this...7 top-class SL games on 1 weekend SHOULD be selling out Wembley Stadium, nevermind the Millenium Stadium!

Typo corrected

Wow, what an interesting, original thread.

Great concept-Love the weekend

Man the up.

What I was going to say, there just seems to be a cycle of threads being regurgitated at the moment discussing the same things.

1 - I defy most fans to sit and watch seven games back to back .... (albeit over 2 days, but you still get the idea)

2 - Given the parochial nature of the sport, most fans of teams hate the other teams playing and most of them don't want to sit around watching teams they hate for the sake of it.

3 - Despite the fact the games are being held 200+ miles away, they're still charging average ticket prices (let's assume you don't want to bother watching someone other than your own team)

4 - It is a miserable place to get to on public transport, especially from Yorkshire and the RFL soon cancelled the idea of the special train when they found the lines being dug up ... So, either go and stay (and be ripped off by hoteliers), spend 6 hours on a coach in each direction or drive and stay sober.

Just a few of the reasons why several long-standing RL fans and myself won't be going ...