I really hope it stays in Manchester.

I understand the point about expanding to a new territory, but I simply have no interest in travelling all the way to Cardiff or Edinburgh to watch a normal Super League fixture, or going for the whole weekend. If our match ended at the time it did in one of the other two cities it would have been difficult (perhaps impossible although I'm not certain) to get a train back to the North West on the same day, and I just wouldn't have gone.

I've really enjoyed the last two in Manchester though, and although I acknowledge there will be die hards who loved Cardiff and/or Edinburgh too, I think long term keeping it "local" will prevent people who go occassionally wherever it is from losing interest and opting for the telly instead.

I think it will be staying put. The beauty of Manchester is that it is local for supporters, but can still be classed as taking the game to terra incogita. They did a good job putting posters around Manchester for it, I would be interested to hear how many people from Manchester went who haven't been to a game before.

The Whit Bank Holiday weekend is perfect for it too. I know there were other clashes such as the European Cup Final, Monaco Grand Prix and Test cricket, but you're never likely to get a completely free ride in the schedules, and those clashes are better than having it on a Premier League football or Six Nations RU weekend.

I thought the decision to have it as the season opener in Cardiff two years ago was an incredibly poor one - the only advantage being that the stadium would guarantee no games would be lost to the February weather, but freezing in South Wales is hardly inspiring for fans of a so called summer sport. Having it on a Bank Holiday that has thankfully turned out to be sunny in the North West for the last two years was an excellent call.

Wonder how the pitch held up? bet it was in surprisingly good nick.

The weekend was perfect as was the venue, the weather, the way it was organised and of course our result.

Well Done to the RFL

Eitihad Stadium on the 2nd Bank Holiday in May every time.

Totally agree FB, plus being the second closest team to the ground is a massive help.

I must agree a great weekend of outstanding top sport! We loved almost every minute. The only bit of down-side was the Bradford performance, I didn’t think they would win, just that they would have given much more of a challenge; not wishing to take owt away from Huddersfield.

Any twitter whores on here?
Any player reactions to the weekend tweets?

Myler, Atkins and Briers said they loved it. Mylers interview after the game can be seen on SLTV and he commented on our fan base, can just about hear the interview we we're making that much noise!

Myler has also posted the video of the fans singing the Monaghan song at half time! https://twitter.com/RichieMyler

Myler has also posted the video of the fans singing the Monaghan song at half time! https://twitter.com/RichieMyler

Looked absolutely fantastic, the RFL pulled up a spectacular weekend, the weather seemed to agree, there's the atmosphere that we've been looking for. Manchester brings the best out of Rugby League. What a weekend!!!

@RichardMathers:
Best bank holidays are spent with my girls in the sun... Result was awful, fans great, great reception from wire faithful... Brilliant magic

No more SpiderCam! EVER!

I took my sister's boyfriend last year who is more of a union fan, and on Saturday I took two of my City fan mates who never really watch any rugby and they loved it.

I will never forget Hull away in 2011. I took a uni mate who is from Birmingham and grew up playing Union, he was blown away by it. We got the bus into town and walked up to Parkers, went to go in and he said we can't go in there, its all home fans. Told him not to be daft and in we went, great banter with all the fans as per usual, as coach loads were going past into the stadium with fans singing etc. He turned to me and said I'm going to start following RL this is brilliant, we hadn't even got into the stadium! He is planning on coming to Wembley with us both times this year and also coming up here for the Wigan game. I think we take for granted many great aspects of our sport and get carried away with the criticism at times. RL isn't perfect, but it is bloody brilliant!