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44411_1300461926.png Iolo wrote. You must be confusing me with jannerboyuk, [...] he is also crucrusaders and I strongly suspect he is traffic as well.
Iolo. My mum is dead actually
Thanks for that
Scooter Nik. Yeah right. Of course she is, probably turned up her toes in disgust at having spawned a prat like you:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_44411.png |
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| Then hold it at the end of may after fooseball has finished
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| Quote: spooneryork "Your'e missing the Point, if the event was held somewhere that is easy for most people to get to and from in a day, many fans would pick a specific day to go on.'"
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.
Quote: spooneryork "All these venues are still easy to get to and from in a day from London.'"
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...
Quote: spooneryork "Regarding tourist boards supporting the event the concensus from people posting on here is that the Edinborough Tourist board has done very little at all to publicise the event.'"
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.
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| Quote: chubbs1981 "Then hold it at the end of may after fooseball has finished'"
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.
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44411_1300461926.png Iolo wrote. You must be confusing me with jannerboyuk, [...] he is also crucrusaders and I strongly suspect he is traffic as well.
Iolo. My mum is dead actually
Thanks for that
Scooter Nik. Yeah right. Of course she is, probably turned up her toes in disgust at having spawned a prat like you:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_44411.png |
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| 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?
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| Quote: chubbs1981 "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.
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44411_1300461926.png Iolo wrote. You must be confusing me with jannerboyuk, [...] he is also crucrusaders and I strongly suspect he is traffic as well.
Iolo. My mum is dead actually
Thanks for that
Scooter Nik. Yeah right. Of course she is, probably turned up her toes in disgust at having spawned a prat like you:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_44411.png |
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| I saw very little fact. only some unreferenced numbers and an oppinion about the financial state of some premier league fooseball clubs
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| Quote: chubbs1981 "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.
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| Paris next year for me. Plucked out of thin air. Expansion, hotels, a great city. meets all the criteria.
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| Quote: Durham Giant "Paris next year for me. Plucked out of thin air. Expansion, hotels, a great city. meets all the criteria.'"
What stadium?
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| 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.
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| 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!!)
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| I can see the attraction of the BIG weekend away, but many fans including myself already go to London every year for the weekend for the Challenge Cup. I do take on board what you are saying about all the fans being in a relatively small City Centre and the great atmosphere, but Two BIG weekends away is a lot to ask financially given the dire straits the country is in debt wise with many people looking at a pay cut, pay freeze, redundancy and short hours, and that's not including going to France which certainly ain't cheap!
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| Quote: Durham Giant "Paris next year for me. Plucked out of thin air. Expansion, hotels, a great city. meets all the criteria.'"
Including the one of giving us £500k?
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| Quote: Mable_Syrup "(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!!)'"
Minibus then?
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| Quote: chubbs1981 "Wasn't the whole point if the magic weekend to increase the interest in rl in what are traditionally non rl areas? Hence Cardiff which has spawned 2 pro welsh teams and a great uptake amongst players and the performance of Wales in the euro cup.
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No.
The whole point of the original Millennium Magic was the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff and the South Wales Tourist board realising that with Wembley reopening they were losing the FA Cup Final, Football League Playoffs and RL Challenge Cup final and wanting some big event to replace it: hence they approached the RFL and said: "if we give you half a million, will you bring an event to the Millennium Stadium". The point of the (non-Millennium) Magic Weekend is the Edinburgh equivalents taking a look at Cardiff and making a better offer (helped by the fact that the RFL felt the WRU, stadium and tourist board weren't doing enough to publicise the Cardiff event, coupled with complaints about the way hotels were hiking up prices).
So it's purpose is three-fold:
1) to bring much-needed cash into the game
2) to raise the profile of the sport by having a whole round of fixtures on TV (and to a lesser extent by taking a whole round of fixtures 'one the road')
3) to build a 'festival' of top-flight rugby league and provide another 'event' weekend for fans (alongside the Cup Final and Grand Final) where every SL fan gets a chance to see their team taking part.
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