Failure without a doubt.

Spot on

didn't go and had a great time at Rotunds BBQ, we watched most of the games, saw quite a few refing mistakes, saw a St Helens team who had moaned in the press all week about the event not bother turning up. Did not see a lot of fans. This event is not needed the players moan about too many games at Easter so cut down to one and get rid of non-magic weekend, fans don't go because of the cost 59000 over two days for 7 games is an average of 8450 which was actually a couple of thousand more than the previous weeks fixtures, which involved Salford at home on Tv and Celtic at home whilst Catalan were away so it was unlikely to be a massive turn out.

No I wasn't there along with a great many other people - which was precisely my point. I couldn't afford to go. I have children too young to need a season ticket who I would have had to pay full price for despite my season ticket discount. It doesn't mean I am not entitled to an opinion. In fact I feel I have every right to having missed a game I would have like to see becasue the RFL priced me out of it.

It looked terrible on television, awful. At least when it was at Cardiff you could hear something resembling an atmosphere on the TV.

On a weekend when the Rah-Rahs are filling Croke Park (82,000) and the getting 45,000 at Cardiff for two semi-finals getting a total of ~40,000 to Edinburgh for seven matches is abysmal. No wonder the paper and TV coverage was almost non-existent.

No matter how enjoyable the day(s) itself may be the event needs to be ditched or at the very least be moved to a much smaller stadium (Villa Park anyone?). Three years on and it has achieved nothing.

So the RFl shouldn't do it cos you and a handful of the usual suspects don't like it It's a shame thousands of other supporters did like it.

It's done to expand the game and "IF" in the event of that people get to have a good experience and heaven forbid enjoy themselves then so be it.
OMFG!!!!!! it's terrible isn't it.

I sympathise with those priced out of it. For us it was France with the kids and miss out on Celtic and Edinburgh or vice versa. You won't hear me moaning cos we couldn't afford to go France. We were gutted to miss a Salford game, but I get the feeling we made the right choice.

But to have an opinion on how successful the whole weekend was when you either wasn't there or turned up for one game then went straight back home is just ludicrous.

A weekend in birmingham sounds sooooooooooo appealing

it was e there where not that many pubs near the stadium, and they should have had all the derby games on it makes it better!!

I remember having a ding dong on here with you about it last year, you were massively in favour it. Good we have got another convert to common sense

Come on then what did we miss by going home after watching the game of the team we support? The whole top flight of our sport can't fill half a stadium, shows how highly regard it is by fans. And how on earth is that intended to spread the game? You spread the game from grass roots up simple as, not gimmicky gimpfests like this weekend.

Anyway I'm off there is 3 amateur games on at The Willows I'm gonna go and watch, just got to sort my fancy dress costume out first.

If the figures are true and I did say "If" I would call 4-6000 scottish ticket sales a success in it's first year.

Are we who are already fans of the game the right ones to ask if it was a success. We already love the game and would probably watch it if it was being played in downtown Kabul. The people to ask are those who went to watch the game having little or no knowledge of our sport and the questions to ask them are not just did you enjoy the weekend but would you watch this sport if we stuck a team in Scotland. Whats not to enjoy about having a weekend away in an historic beautiful city like Edinburgh, watching Rugby and drinking beer? But it was an event not designed just to have a beano but to "expand" the game in new areas. Only time will tell if its been a success from that perspective but as pointed out in other posts the numbers of local fans who attended are the truer test of its value not that the numbers of fans who are already supporters of the greatest game. And as a final thought if the RFL do decide to franchise to Scotland or Ireland or Kabul!! which teams do you think are vulnerable to being dispensed with?

I thought you had it on already Enjoy your amateur game youth finals

I didn't go to the Cardiff version so have nothing to compare this weekend with & don't know if it was better or worse.

I do find it puzzling that so many people went all that way at such cost and watched so few games - sat in a pub (and what a goodly number of great pubs there are!!!!) on Saturday night chatting with some Saints fans, they'd ONLY watched their match (and therefore were drowning sorrows) - surely the point of the weekend was an opportunity to see a lot of games and watch many as a neutral - for me that was the most enjoyable thing about it. RL is a fantastic sport and to be able to enjoy the skills on show was great.

Now - to answer the question posed - was the weekend a success? I suspect from a marketing point of view the answer is a resounding "no!" Playing in a half empty stadium benefits no-one; If the aim is to show what a great spectacle we have then you need people to really WANT to get tickets and clearly not enough did. My son lives in Edinburgh and it appears there was precious little local marketing done in the lead up to the weekend - surely free tickets to schools and colleges, competitions on local radio to win tickets etc etc all could have been organised - but when you look at the rugby league organisation generally are we surprised?

For me it was a terrific weekend and I would definitely go again.