Eastlands is not 5 miles from the City Centre . It is a 30 min walk from Piccadilly Station or 5 min Taxi ride . Quite a few buses go that way aswell .

Newcastle would be a great place to have it or perhaps White Hart Lane or Villa Park .

Another thing is if we move it to the end of May it clashes with the Football League Play Off Finals . Lets say Leeds/Bradford/ Huddersfield or Hull City reach the final it may affect the attendance

Newcastle for me. Great Stadium and a great city. Ive been to every Magic Weekend and enjoyed it, but I feel it needs to be played in a smaller stadium with more competitive games. I would definitely bring the derby fixtures back.

We had this conversation last night ... The Magic Weekend is the extra game, therefore do you want to influence the outcome of the league by "fixing" the games. It's be lovely to have all derbies (provided we get Salford) but it's influencing the table and better left to drawing from a hat.

As to the location, there's several reasons as to why it was moved, but my preference would be either Amsterdam or Faliraki please !!

I don't want the derbies back unless widnes are in super league when they do, salford is a rubbish derby I'd rather play Wigan even though there's more chance of us losing

no to cardiff,long and tedious journey
no to london, go there already in the fixtures.
no to edinburgh.
no to dublin , far to expensive
so that leaves only the other suggestion of newcastle which everyone seems to pick.

Murrayfield stadium I was impressed with, but its in the middle of nowhere, I mean pubs, resteraunts etc and also as much as Edinburgh is a nice city it lacks decent places where you can get a meal.

Another reason why they pulled out of Cardiff was they were ripping people off with accomodation, maybe Newcastle next but is there much around the ground?

This for me is a key point that shouldn't be overlooked. A quick scan on this website alone (avatars, signatures, usernames etc) reveals that plenty of RL fans support a football club as well and personally I've never been to a Magic Weekend because I'm not missing a Liverpool game at the business end of the season. A similar scenario will arise with the locals in the respective cities, especially if you play it somewhere like Manchester or Newcastle in future, who will be more focussed on their football club than another sporting event turning up which is a novelty to them.

The Bank Holiday weekend at the end of May would make far more sense I reckon as well as making it easier to potentially book somewhere like Eastlands or St. James' Park as they may appreciate a decent pay day a couple of weeks after their season ends when they've got plenty of time to then re-lay the pitch.

Glasgow

The atmosphere would be brilliant at Hampden.

The hoteliers can hike the prices as there's only 7,500 hotel rooms in Cardiff (plus its their livelyhood).

It's ok peple being fo the opinion that they don't want to go back to Edinburgh, but to claim there aren't any decent places to eat is going too far.

The city has more decent bars and restaurants than anywhere else I know (outside London).

Personally I'd be over the moon if it were to be at Murrayfield again, but I expect the whole concept will be shelved.

Eastlands is about 5 miles out of the city centre ........ give or take 3 1/2 miles or so. Doh.