Surely debating ways to get more people involved in it is a good, posistive thing? It may well be a great exciting concept but when you have a 70,000 capacity stadium to play with (and similar across the UK) what's wrong with hping to at least hit the 75% mark?

Not seen anything on 500k to RFL, I must admit, where's that from Welsh Tourist board?

Yorkshire Forward (the tourist thing for west Yorkshire) isn’t interested in taking Yorkshire forward whatsoever, so they won’t bother funding this event. Elland Road is a fine stadium and would be packed to the rafters if the magic weekend concept was held they due to the fact its slap bang in the middle of the rugby league heartlands.

Either way we’re just going to keep disagreeing with each other on Leeds. I’m glad you had a good weekend and I hope you go on to have a good week.

I 100% agree with this.

While I think the RFL should be applauded for trying the concept, I just don't think it has worked. It is trying to attempt to manufacture a showpiece event from a regular round of fixtures. End result is trying to attract new fans with a set of games that do not have the intensity of other showpiece events.

As I've said before, and others have said, maybe use the Challenge cup semi finals as a double header somewhere. Fans of the clubs would be more likely to watch both games (main exception of the losers of the first game!), new fans would be watching games with more meaning and might inject a bit of life into the competition, which at the moment, until the final seems to be stagnating.

Who cares if it's not growing? Everyone I spoke to had a great time and the RFL gets a sizeable chunk of money. Result on all fronts. Even the armchair fans get to watch 7 games on TV, although I'm sure there are some who secretly hate that. To be honest if it was sold out then it probably wouldn't be as good, I think it was a good level of business for both days.

Added to that - it does get national media attention. Radio 5 Live plugged this weekend to death. On balance, i would keep it. Not mentioning the fantastically lazy Saturday i had on the sofa watching match after match after match. Heaven

games fooked at super league level run by a clown with a vibrator firmly wedged up his cheeks dress it up as you like,games fooked

Get off the fence Jesus

I hope you're never in charge of the RFL!

Do you mean that [iRimmer[/i guy?

Why? Because I am able to support and enjoy an event without moaning and looking for negatives?

Get's money from...? Against what expenditure? How many Cardiff residents turned up? Marketing there? When MM 1st started that was the idea of it so how is that working? These are the most important questions here, surely?

Not really a concern of mine , but has the original ' purpose ' changed ? , and if it has , does it matter ?

It gets money from 1. the Welsh tourist board and 2. the 60,000 tickets that were sold. I thought that would have been obvious. The RFL don't make a loss on the event, they wouldn't do it if they did. I don't know how many Cardiff residents turned up, probably not many considering Wales RU were playing at the same time. I don't care and I don't think it matters at all, I don't really feel the primary objective is to expand the game although it did give Welsh SL fans a chance to see games that the probably wouldn't have been able to otherwise. Have you ever been to a Magic event? If not then don't criticise. It doesn't look particularly good on TV. But who gives a f$ck? Everyone who went enjoyed it, and the RFL raked it in. As I said, result on both fronts.

What this has illustrated to me, is how utterly pathetic a lot of RL fans are. People who are moaning, I'm glad you didn't go because the place was a lot better without you.