The can close the roof at Cardiff, you know.

They're not playing there anymore you know

It is bad enough during May in Edinburgh never mind February...

" The time and money spent on the Magic Weekend should be spent on an area like Cumbria ... "



Whilst ive been to both events in wales and im going upto scotland, james graham does have a point with his above comment.

No he doesn't. Cumbria will never get it together enough to put out a Superleague team for a start.

Whitehaven, Workington and barrow all national league clubs



notable ARL sides playing at decent standards...eg millom, egremont, kells, wath brow



not to mention other sides dotted around....ambleside, windermere etc



a darn site more about cumbrian RL than scottish RL....but i dont see a "cumbrian Magic'' in the pipeline....

This venture should actually generate money for the game, rather than costing money - meaning more is available for development in other areas.

I personally dont think the Magic weekend will become a major event in the RL calendar tbh. The only reason I feel that is because of its timing. The only problem is that it should be the first weekend of of the season to make it work but thats obviously not going to work in February. The other option is to have it as the last weekend end in the season but having the Cup final, Magic weekend and GF within 2 months would be a bit too much in that time period also

Graham could always ask Mick Potter to leave him in St Helens if he's that unkeen on the idea.

Scotland has people living in it. +1 to Scotland.

Poor luv.



What exactly is this "burden" - sitting on your chuff on a bus to Edinburgh? You should try getting a proper job.



Tell you what, James, let's scrap the whole comp, and you can just sit on your fat lazy arrse drawing your pay cheque for doing fsck all. How about that?



Or can you see the flaw?



If you aren't too fussed about playing that game - don't! Make yourself "unavailable" or pretend you've injured your little finger or something. If you just want to play local park rugby, there's plenty of it available.



We can take it that Mr Graham would be content to play the odd game at or within 40 miles of home, and let the expansion of the game go hang. We can also take it that he is quite, quite mad as he presumably thinks that Sky will cough up his mammoth wages for running around in shorts, with less games, less events and less national appeal.

I'd rather see a round of on the road matches like they did one year, so more parts of the country get to see the game