eh?

Until it leaves Edinburgh I shan't be returning.

What did you not understand inparticular?

I assume I'm missing something with the magic weekend idea, but who exactly is it helping by being in Scotland? Or Wales for that matter (when it was there). It could be incredible for the Welsh now with a team there to support, but in Scotland, are any locals really going to take notice? No one to support, and a load of league fans all over the place to annoy them, don't see how it helps expansion at all. Meanwhile, all the league fans from everywhere else have to travel all that way, to watch a load of teams they could watch on tv anyway, don't see any real interest in watching a team you don't supprt, live (at least not enough to justify the journey). All seems very strange.

Last year several thousand locals bought tickets, building up a support base of rl fans will be vital for any expansion into scotland, the locals we met didnt seem annoyed they seem pretty happy we were there and to top it all of rl gets payed to take this event there, if we can get paid to promote expansion then why the hell wouldnt we. Though i didnt watch all the games live i went to most and really enjoyed it, especially when leeds played catalans, supporters from nearly every sl team sat with the impressive number of catalans fans and there was real party atmosphere, people were singing, dancing, there was even a brass band playing.

The main thing alot of people on this thread are missing (presumably because they havent been) is that its a fantatsic atmosphere with fans from all sl clubs (and a few championship clubs, if the haven, fev, barrow and dewsbury shirts we saw last year are anything to go by) to get together have a good time and sample a fantastic city.

It increases awareness of the game. No professional RL there before, now there is some for them to see and check out. You need to be aware that something exists before you can support it, and that's what this event is about.

Your point about not wanting to watch teams you don't support can't be held by the majority. How many thousand people go to watch NFL at Wembley every year for the sake of it being NFL rather than it being whichever team? Just one prominent example there.

Unlikley to get many Championship fans this year as the RFL have scheduled both Championship and Champioship one fitures that weekend

I'm going up and looking forward to it. I preferred Cardiff though.

It's not though. If people don't want to go they wont go. It's a choice.

It's a good idea in theory, but they have to accept that they have to either find a way of marketing Super League to make it appealing enough to draw a good crowd or just admit it's never going to be a sport that can draw big crowds.

Look at the Wembley crowd for the Saracens game last week. There must have been 40,000 there again, more than will attend the 'Wacky' weekend in total.

I’ve said it before, Hearts and Hibs season ticket holders need to be let in for free. Perhaps the two clubs could even officially ‘adopt’ an RL club in each of the games so it gives any potential attendees something to support. All school children in Edinburgh should receive free tickets too. Again, the schools could be assigned to a particular RL club and in the run up to the game the players from their adopted team could visit the school and take a few of the PE lessons.

Are you available to start Monday?


Regards,

Richard Lewis.

Who are the Scots to support in the intervening period between events? Why make the fans who cough up every week travel so far to watch any ordinary round of games?
Maybe those thousands go to watch the NFL because it's their one opportunity to watch an incredible sporting and entertainment spectacle that is brilliantly marketed?

The ones who play and watch the summer conference games?



I must have missed the diktat that made it compulsory...

So the ones who play and watch might well attend the event, but you think that the event will mean more who don't already will go to these summer conference games?

Clutching at straws mate, the lack of compulsory element will be all too evident when Sky pictures show the sparsity of the crowd