Jebus - people are moaning about the cost of drinks, hotel rooms and travelling time to Edinburgh from Yorkshire or Lancashire … and you offer them Paris!

Have you been to Paris. I have and have lived just outside of Paris due to a previous job. The words "complete dump" don't begin to sum up what it is like. The Parisian people as well bring new meaning to the words arrogant, ignorant and rude. It is them that ruin the reputation of the rest of the French. How Paris gets the "romantic, wonderful, city of lights" image it does is beyond me. The place would serve a better purpose if turned into a dechetterie.

If it was to be in France then somewhere in the south would have to be the venue.

Monaco

Fair enough, I was just continuing the crazy ideas.

My thoughts

Would be intrigued to see what people's thoughts, particularly the last bit. I feel it is something which can only benefit the event and get local schools and organisations involved.

The weekend should stay, but your idea is one for April 1st.

Think its a good idea, apart from the 2 different locations - cant see it working at all, id keep it all in 1 stadium. Birmingham is a good central location but what is it like for an influx of people; hotels, camp sites ect?
One been mentioned lately is Newcastle and St James Park - who have said they would be keen to host the event aswell, Okay its a bit further out for the likes of Cat,Quins and Crusaders but not as far as Murrayfield, and can cope with the influx of people and would be a cracking weekend for the mixture of fans during the day and the night.

As ive said previously elsewhere I usually run trips to the bigger Rugby occassions. After last year in Edinburgh and the problems with the pubs I couldn't raise a trip for this year.

I already know that if the weekend is moved back to Cardiff I could get 2 coach loads by the end of the day!

For the Millenium Weekend we stayed in Swansea. Fantastic night life and a short journey the next day to Cardiff where we met the carnival atmosphere in the City Centre pubs with the stadium in the background.

For Hulls Challenge Cup Final we stayed in Swindon. Again great nightlife with the same carnival atmosphere around Cardiff.

It needs to go back there and be left to develop itself for a few years. I'm sure after a few years we'd grow into that Stadium.

I don't see the issue with Edinburgh. The stadium's top notch, the city's beautiful and the accommodation isn't too expensive if you're willing to look around. There's ample space outside of the stadium to provide a great experience for fans who attend.

But the RFL have to make the event something a fan has to attend, something they don't want to miss out on especially when people are struggling for cash. They need to be critical of the selection of fixtures, the ticketing and marketing (maybe just one ticket for the entire weekend), the entertainment on show inside the ground and Sky's ability to broadcast all games live. I'd like to see more Players and Coaches available for signing sessions for the kids, maybe they could have a fans competition.

Maybe they could have those sides outside of Superleague having a 7's tournement on the pitches outside of the ground with the final played inside murrayfield with a Scotland Rep side involved. Could the National Rail Final be incorporated? Or could they even stage an international game at the end of the festival (Aus v NZ?).

Quote: Big Graeme "Oh aye, I know that and I think it would be fantastic, but you can see the pound signs in Michael O'Leary's eyes at the thought of it.'" maybe Barcelona wont be too fanciful in a few years time news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 671489.stm

Quote: Big Graeme "Oh aye, I know that and I think it would be fantastic, but you can see the pound signs in Michael O'Leary's eyes at the thought of it.'" maybe Barcelona wont be too fanciful in a few years time news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 671489.stm

Queen Victoria had the right idea about Birmingham.

Whenever the royal train passed through it she had her servants draw the curtains on her carriage so she wouldnt have to look at the place.

Sadly things haven't moved on a lot in poor old Brum. Some nice little bars down by the NIA and the canal and Broad st is sort of reasonable (and they have a Walkabout!!) but thats as good as it gets.

The best thing about Birmingham is the M40.. heading south.


Cardiff is still the best place for the superleague to host these 'magic' weekends

A weekend in Birmingham would be dubbed the 'Tragic' weekend very quickly. Its not suitable for Rugby League.

Trust your old mate Barry McKenzie on this one.

God; you really do get worse with time, p1ss off! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Having the games in seperate stadiums defeats the object IMO. You can't easily watch all the games if you want.

Keep it in Cardiff, give it some years to grow. Bring back derbies. Get the clubs to market the tickets to their own fans more. Include the championship teams and have their games on the RU pitch outside. This would easily get another 10-15k to the event.

Bordeaux Stadium would be great for 2012. Chaban Delmas stadium is 33400 seats.
4% (per cent) of the benefit (tickets) for the Council. Gary Hetherington was interested in 2006 (25/7/2006) for an away game. I was present with my camera...Be sure that Bordeaux is the best stadium for the next Magic Week End