Considering part of the reason for the Magic weekend is to help expand the game and to hopefully get a Championship club in Scotland having a match in an almost empty stadium is a good indicator of what we would end up with , so from that point of view it should be seen as a success

It will be interesting to see how well attended the Championship version is later in the year

Does the job description for 'Professional Rugby League Player' include playing scheduled rugby league matches? If you don't like the job, get another. I expect he'll turn down an opportunity to play for England anywhere outside the M62 corridor then - don't want to travel or anything awful like that.

Why? Has it got a growth on it or something?




Personally, I'd say an attendance of 59,749 – and yes it includes people who attended both days because, well, they attended both days – is not too bad in "The worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s" as everyone keeps telling us. rlThe organisers seem happy as wellrl.

I didn't go this year for a number of reasons, but one thing I know from the last two years rlIt's a good festival of rugby leaguerl, with the chance to mix with fans from across the SL (and championship clubs) and even people new to the sport and watch games you normally wouldn't get a chance to.

errr - no it's not. Though if it was, 6,000 ticket sales in Scotland wouldn't count as a 'disaster' – except in the world of professional Micawbers

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Well we are trying to follow RU arent we

Now that suprises me. I lost count at the number of shops with magic adverts. Even down in Leith where we were all the locals we talked to had heard it was on and were interested in it. We even spoke to some locals who went to the games and were loving the atmosphere ( it was just a shame they were Quins fans )
I'd take Edinburgh over Cardiff anyday of the week it has soooooo much more going for it.

I agree we were lucky with the weather which did help massively. Also I think that next time you might see special buses being put on as I think it's the main minus point which has been mentioned to the RFL. However even with all the tram work thats being done Edinburgh still managed to have a transport system in place to put most other british cities to shame. And as for the run unless you went up to the citadel you wouldn't have even known it was on but for people walking around loking like they've just been cooked in tinfoil.

Rugby wise i was impressed with the occasion. When it came to the nightlife it was terrible. We were refused entry into loads of pubs on both nights for no apparent reason. It wasn't just us either many people we spoke to we're having the same problem even the locals.

Was there a big group of you?

rugby shirts on?

A lot of pubs in Scotland have strict no colours policies, given the historical sectarianism around Rangers and Celtic an, to a lesser extent, around Hearts and Hibs. It's a bugger, especially on an event like this - but could that me the reason?

A lot also have strict policies on no big groups as well. Also it was pay weekend with a number of evets on so lots of them would have been really busy.

Also if anyone appeared to have already had a fair fews drinks or as a bit loud/rowdy would see a whole group turned away.

Indeed, they may very well be. As I said earlier I will happily leave it to those who both know the goals MM and have access to supporting data to make a judgement.




Good, a sensible rebuttal of the argument, not mine by the way, that the crowd and how it looked was in fact a negative. It makes so much more sense than trying to suggest that any [negative]discussion of attendance is automatically irrelevant.