The guy is clueless as can be seen from his comments regarding Cumbria. I'm all for a Cumbrian SL side but not a magic weekend as it doesn't have the infrastructure. Also, he has no care for the expansion or growth of the game which pays him a handsome wage. Tool

Agreed he makes a good point.

Magic Weekend should be scrapped - Graham . i agree lets bring STATE OF ORIGIN over

Does he really have a point? Arent the RFL making a nice profit out of this event? Thats the impression i got, which would make his comment a bit daft because were not spending any money on the magic weekend so how could it be spent on cumbria instead exactly?

exactly!!! i'm sure he wasnt complaining about these ventures as he settled down into his business class flight to Australia for the World Cup.

I do see James Grahams point. We all make fun of Union converts that "sing from the union hymn book". We all exercise our opinions on here why not the players.

27 rounds of Rugby is pretty pointless if you have an 8 team play off and a load of internationals at the end of the season. Surely a shorter schedule would be better and losing the Magic Weekend would be a good start.

I had also thought that having the Magic Weekend (new name please) at the beginning of the seaon would result in a bigger turn out. It also is a distance away from any other event on the calender (hopefully the wcc will move to the end of the season at some point). I would also be more likely to go to the other games to see new signing play for their new clubs.

It is a shame it is not still at cardiff because we could have the roof shut in Feb. It would be an excellent launch to the season.

Graham has an unhealthy obsession with cumbria, if it was down to him he'd kick out leeds for a club in the ar$e end of nowhere just because daddys from there

Ginger t0$ser

hes got a right to his opinion, im another who thinks its getting out of hand. france,cardiff,london,wembley murryfield,and old trafford if you are luckky to get there, it gets very expensive if you have a family. so cas till i die just because everyone does not agree with you we are all t-----s .

Aren't you spectacularly missing the point?

MMis arranged as an EXTRA round of matches, specifically to have a big showcase weekend at a prestigious location, with saturated TV coverage.

If they didn't arrange it at such a place in such a way, there wouldn't be a game. At all. So you're not missing anything if you don't want to go, are you? You're not being "deprived" of a game?

And it's not as if you can't wacth your team - and all the others too - all weekend if you don't want to go, or can't afford it?

Oh dear what an idiot. The classic flat cappers uneducated 'time and money' comment that completely misses the point of it all.

I think its the RFL who are clueless. They promote a welsh team into superleague and move the "magic" weekend to Scotland.

They schedule the games at the time when football is coming to its final phase and cricket starts.

The supporters pump in reportingly 9-10 millionquid into the Edinburgh poulation economy where there is no prescence of rugby league.
The local people propbably get subsidised tickets while the real supports pay full price.

The matches are only available to the "sky" viewers.
If it rains over the weekend then the last 2 matches on the Sunday could be a farce if the pitch doesn't hold up.

Why can,t we just play teams home and away or maybe the RFL are thinking next magic weekend in Dubai = Clueless.

My sentiments exactly.

Here's your choice James:

Play 28 games like before MM (and then whinge about fatigue)

or

Play 26 games and take a pay cut (and then whinge about money)

or

Play MM and keep your wage.



Unjustified moans should be banned from the media. He's talking about investing money into Cumbria instead of the Magic Weekend. I don't think he realises that it's not the RFL investing money in this, it's the Tourist Boards of the successful applicants. Why would the Welsh Tourist Board invest in Cumbria?!

Idiot.