No, it was devised to give Cardiff an event to replace the CC final (along with all the footy stuff) when it moved back to Wembley. There was no expansion agenda when it was started.



You are still falling into the trap of thinking football clubs want this kind of business at this time of year.

Then hold it at the end of may after fooseball has finished

No, you are missing the point, the tourist board pays a large amount of cash to have their hotels full and the tourist economy boosted, if that doesn't happen the large amount of cash isn't on the table.



And how many of these venues would want that many games played in two days? The only venue that would take it would be Don Valley which apart from shocking public transport links has a full running track around the pitch which tends to upset your average RL fan. Dunno what London has to do with it though...



They pay the RFL a large chunk of cash to have the event in the city, that is the extent of their obligations, it is down to the SRL and the RFL to publisise the event.

You mean when groundstaff are getting the pitch ready for the next season and repairing it from the one just gone, Broncos had to have 6 weeks on the road to let the pitch recover when they played at Griffin Park.

You think a club like Newcastle needs the business? Birmingham? Arsenal? Seven games of RL in two days would kill a footy pitch if it was a wet weekend.

No your right nobody needs it lets just pull the plug on everything and play sl games down the council pitches! Why bother putting it on sky the earn far to much do u think they need the business?

Any other pathetic excuses you fancy typing?

WTF, if you can't handle some simple facts you are in the wrong place.

I saw very little fact. only some unreferenced numbers and an oppinion about the financial state of some premier league fooseball clubs

And I saw very little reasoning beyond picking cities out of thin air, I've given two very good reasons why the RFL is limited to where they can take this and apart from some teddy chucking you've not countered them.

Most of the reasons a football club would host it isn't financial, it is to do with the pitch taking a battering. I know (as it has been reported in paper local) that Newcastle aren't considering hosting any concerts or other events on the pitch for the next few years and Arsenal fans were not happy about two gigs being staged there last year.

Paris next year for me. Plucked out of thin air. Expansion, hotels, a great city. meets all the criteria.

What stadium?

When will the RFL learn people haven't got unlimited funds, The Challenge Cup is the main weekend away for people, then many people take a trip away to France when their team plays Le Cats, it's just too much to ask people to fork out for another very expensive weekend away, particularly in this dire economic climate we are in. that's why as I have suggested earlier if the weekend was held in say Liverpool, Newcastle or Sheffield most people could go on one of the days and enjoy a nice day out without the extra costs of staying overnight.

I bloody love these magic weekends

. They're a great weekend away. I've never heard anyone who has been say they haven't thought it was great value for money or a really enjoyable weekend. This weekend is a massive highlight in the season for me. Ive been to every one so far and see no reason why i wont keep going in the future.

I know in advance that this weekend is coming up so i save to go to it. £30 for a 2 day match ticket then accom, its not that much at all??

(Giants fans should all go as thats the only way we get to see our team. We've not been sky once since it started and only available if you have red button this year, Sponsors wont be happy!!)