Last year they announced the schedule a couple of days before christmas. The Kick Off Times wern't finalised until about two months before though.

Franchise its the future

Im not a big fan of the Magic Weekend at all.

At no point is the crowd sufficient to make it look exciting and worthwhile.

I often think the positive local feedback must come from the local pub landlords!!!

I'd much prefer the idea from about 10 years ago being progressed whereby we have a round "On the road" If stategic and well placed in the right stadiums this must surely be much more worthwhile???

When Cas play Catalan there will be about 800 in a 66 000 stadium!!!! Surely the same game somewhere like Bristol Rovers ground to support Bristol Sonics Development or at Notts County to support the Outlaws development is a better idea. there could then be another 6 projects like that nationwide.

Thoughts?

I think a better format would be to not announce any games and have 1v2 3v4 5v6 7v8 9v10 11v12 13v14 based on the league table from the week before. That would work even better if relegation was in place.

If they had gone with that last year we'd have got

St Helens v Hull KR
Leeds v Huddersfield
Castleford v Harlequins
Wakefield v Hull
Wigan v Catalans
Warrington v Bradford
Salford v Celtic

Then again some teams have played 10 and others 11 so maybe that would be unfair?

I still think it's a good idea though! It guarantees your playing an important game.

on a par with south of france i would think

also depends how much cash you choose to p!55 up the wall, we do ok as we're not interested in sitting in bars everyday