Was talking to a well known ex-player & you'll find most of the players don't like the Magic weekend, YES it great for us fans but the players this day & age 5 hour bus trip or more can't go into the stadium untill 1 hour before the game it all seems a bit rushed for them & there was 3 teams in the same hotel last year all in each other way that not good peperation & then when it comes to the end of the match there rushed off.

How could the RFL make it better for them maybe a Plane up to the venue could be one don't know about the rest.



As a fan i utterly love it in Cardiff, Mingling with all the other fans having a pint or 2 & i'll be there in Edinburgh hopfully doing the same.

Indeed, because Scotland will wont it!

Whether we agree with James Graham's comments or not, it will be interesting to see if his negative comments have any effect on his team's performance on the weekend.



imo Jamie Peacock's negative comments at the beggining of the season has rubbed off on his Leeds team mates and you can see it in their body language.

As I said on the Saints board, it's the timing of this that winds me up.



there's plenty time for debate after the event - through the appropriate channels rather than a high profile player ranting in the press. Why put a downer on something that is due to take place in 5 days? Does Jammer think they might cancel it midweek?



Graham is developing a propensity for shooting his mouth off - blasting the RFL for trying to take RL to other regions p*sses me off. He has a well paid job and the poor love has to go up to Edinburgh to play in a famous international stadium so that Scots get to see SL live and so that those amongst us who want to go up and enjoy the weekend can do so.



No doubt if the RFU had a similar event their players would hype it up rather than badmouthing it and we'd all look on enviously and whinge that the RFL doesn't have the balls to do something similar.



Two fixtures in a weekend over Easter is one gripe. But if he wasn't playing in Edinburgh this weekend he'd be playing in some little northern backwater town and nobody outside of said town would pay any attention. If he can't be bothered travelling a few hundred miles to play the sport he's paid to play and to play a part in taking the sport to a potential expansion area, then that says more about him than the RFL.

That is the end game, yes. We'll start with a third tier side first though hey.

The guy is clueless as can be seen from his comments regarding Cumbria. I'm all for a Cumbrian SL side but not a magic weekend as it doesn't have the infrastructure. Also, he has no care for the expansion or growth of the game which pays him a handsome wage. Tool

His dad is cumbrian - I imagine that's where that particular flatcapping comment comes from.

That would be you and 'clueless' James Graham in agreement then!!

Agreed he makes a good point.

Magic Weekend should be scrapped - Graham . i agree lets bring STATE OF ORIGIN over

he's up

Does he really have a point? Arent the RFL making a nice profit out of this event? Thats the impression i got, which would make his comment a bit daft because were not spending any money on the magic weekend so how could it be spent on cumbria instead exactly?