So, Manchester it is then!

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Date TBA & fixtures this Friday.

good stuff! full stadium, better atmosphere

shame we will most likely get salford (but they will be the home team!) will there fans out number us???

poor decision ...its taken the whole idea of the weekend away for me...people will now just go for their own team's game then go home .....i personally dont think it will make much difference to the attendance anyway and unlike Cardiff people cant just leave the ground, nip across the road to a pub or restaurant then back in for the next game.

Very disappointed, its taken a social event i really enjoy away from me now to pander to a few people who moaned but never intented to go anyway and probably wont still !!!!

I just can not believe the RL it’s a great weekend some where you can stay over meet fans of other teams have a great time with friend and foes alike, but Manchester in a brick dessert I ask you, it will bomb but I will go and just watch the Wire but if where to be at Cardiff I would go again watch all the games stay over for 2/3 nights and have a great time. Yet again step the wrong way.

Terrible decision for all reasons already stated - best weekend away of the year now won't happen - GUTTED!

RFL should have stuck it out - anyone who had gone to Cardiff last year would surely go again?

glad others agree with me , i have been shot down for saying its a bad decision !

got to agree daz cant see the point of going to manchester at all, hows that spreading the game, ihave been to every magic weekend so far and stopped over but for this game it will just be like going to any match, ie go the game then come home, i for one think the ground will be empty more than cardiff as fans come to their match then go home, will still go but a big mistake by the rfl for me.

They may go home after their matches maybe, some people only went to their own matches at Cardiff and Edinburgh so I can't see what difference it will make! I can see it being like the others where you get a weekend or day ticket and folks will want value for their money and RL fans will stay and watch RL regardless on who's playing!! It's been tried and tested elsewhere so why not try somewhere more central where many don't have to worry about additional expense of finding accommodation, travel etc!! People moaned when it was moved to Scotland but people still went people moaned when it was to be Feb in Cardiff people still went!!

If you want a weekend away why not go to London when we play there! If you want to mill around and have banter with other fans why not hang around Manchester with other fans who also want to mill around and have banter!!! I really can't see the problem here!!

so your going to go home after the giants game and miss the hull derby or the wigan/saints derbys which will be the last games of the day.. if you werent staying over in cardiff/edinburgh you were clock watching and wanting to get off home and missing the later games...wont have too this year

no chance of getting a hotel in cardiff they just up the prices..another problem not to worry about, get train home or taxi if a few of you.

hmm some rugby league fans!

I think we may well get more supporters per day, but less attending both days. I'll only go to the day WTW are playing as,for me, it's not an event now that I don't go away for the whole weekend, which is a shame as I loved a weekend in Cardiff/Edinburgh.

not supporting the giants?!

Maybe in a few years time Actually I'll be down whenever the Giants are on TV (which will be lots if last year is anything to go by), just bought a season ticket for behind the sticks because games are always better if you watch it live than on TV.

Far better IMO, and will be guaranteed to be better supported, I for one found the lack of atmosphere at the Murrayfield weekends disappointing with not even half the stadium full, plus damn too expensive. Being local makes it affordable for me, so I'm happy with the change and I bet alot of other families will do too.

If people want a weekend away then there's Catalans and Broncos.

Yes Catalans and London are do-able weekends away but when we go to London for our game there is only a handful of fans from either teams, not thousands from every team which what made the magic weekend magic ...mingling and having a laugh with opposition fans and getting their views on our team, the game in general etc.....

Here's a suggestion.Why not take the Magic Weekend to Europe.How does Amsterdam sound,or Copenhagen,or Hamburg or even Prague.Would it be that expensive to have a weekend in these spots? Don't Britfolk go for hen & stag do's to these kind of places now.