The group that complained were brilliant


1st time we did it, middle aged guy in front of us went to stewards and made a compliant of "obscene abuse", The steward had a word with us and when one of my mates explained the "doggy" story the steward couldn't stop laughing and laughed at the "numpty" Wire fans

2nd time we did it a guy (same group) asked If I had experianced a "dog", I replied no as I wasn't from Lancashire/Cheshire (sorry folks!)

3rd time a guy had a pop at a Saints poster on here (Ski) and didn't know understand Preston wasnt in St Helens

I thought he looked a bit shaky at times but he will do well

BJ-B could be a good bet

3rd Magic I've been to. Loved this one more then the previous 2 as I went for the weekend as opposed to just 1 day. Had a good laugh with a lot of different set of fans. Most people behaved really well considering masses of ale was consumed.

The only negative was travelling home feeling dog rough this morning.

Are you an Aussie who plays for Warrington by any chance?

With the amount I supped on Saturday, I wouldn't rule anything out.

What you doing taking ' wimmin ' t't rugby ?

Arent the RFL paid a substantial amount by the Wales Tourist Board to bring the event to Cardiff, surely mitigating the outlay of attracting some new fans to the sport?



is your argument here that marketing the Magic weekend would be pointless because no one from S. Wales came this time around? seems like the most obvious solution to attracting more fans would be to market/promote the weekend better.



As opposed to every other round of Super League?




i dont think youve thought your trolling through have you?

i would offer every person that was going to attend a Wales 6 nations game this year a ticket to MM for a fiver. if there were 75 000 people in attendance for the Wales England game, then a 1.5% take up would be an extra 1000 people there.

i would have done something similar with the Cardiff City fans that were in the City on Saturday afternoon. Once their game had finished at 5pm, get them in the ground with a cheap ticket for the Wigan Sts game.

if i was the RFL, i would be employing Gareth Thomas to sell absolutely every aspect of RL in Wales for the next year. starting with the 4 nations games that Wales will be hosting, and then straight into the Magic Weekend off the back of that.

the RFL is doing some really good ticket bundle offers with the Challenge Cup and Grand Final, there is no reason the same cant be done in Wales with the 4 nations and MM.

also, i would be promoting Welsh RL in the stadium between matches. Scorpians play here, there are X number of amateur teams in this area etc etc.

The MM concept is really good theres no reason it cant help develop the game in Wales, and promotoe the game at a national level at the same time.

My main criticism is that arriving at Cardiff Central, there was no advertising to be seen, no highlighting that the weekend was taking place. Hopefully there were activities and events in the city centre, but between the train station and the stadium, all i noticed was a poster in a bar advertising it as 'the official pre and post match venue of MM'.

great concept and enjoyed watching most of the games on the TV. The RFL just need to get better at marketing to the Welsh public and somehow get another 10K+ locals along.

I enjoyed the whole experience, will go where ever it is next year. I know before somebody posts that Saturday was probably our last MM for at least 3 years, but i willl go back for the chance to meet up with other RL fans again.

Why are you assuming that Welsh football supporters would want to come and watch 2 English sides play a game of Rugby league?

I guess with the marketing side of things was that the games were advertised on ITV but only in Granada & Yorkshire. Maybe they could have done ITV Wales & West along with S4C.

Went for the weekend (Friday-Monday) - we've attended all of the magic weekends and although Edinburgh was cheaper (camp site) you can't beat Cardiff. Location, location, location.

Met some lovely supporters of other teams and apart from my team losing, had a great time. Just wish they would put it back to the 2nd bank holiday in May.

Alot of people slate the Millenium magic experience and most of them are people that couldn't be bothered to make the trip down. Yes I know alot of people can't afford it. I've certainly being in that position but when you have people mocking the event due to it's attendance and they say in the same breath I've never being to the MM and will never go. It's rubbish the crowds are crap and the RFL should scrap it you then have to laugh. If all supporters could buy in to what the RFL are trying to achieve then this could be an amazing way to start our season every year. If you don't go for whatever reason then fair enough just don't knock it if you can't be bothered to get yourself down to Cardiff and sample the experience. I think the event should stay and i can see 100% that if the RFL stick with this it will grow just like the grand final has.