GT wrote:It might not have been said, but it's inferred when people all over the forums post negative things about the tournament only to get "but you weren't there, so shut up" and other, similar comments thrown at them. Then someone comes on and says "I was there and I thought it was shite" and he gets slagged off as well.

I didn't go yesterday, purely down to cost, but I remember thinking after our one outing at Cardiff that I wasn't bothered about going to it again. It's a waste of time. What is the point of it? To give people a day out in a big, tourist city? You can do that without a game of rugby league to watch. To give people a day out on the ale? Again, you can do that whenever you want. To give people the chance to watch their club in a big stadium? Well, that should be reserved for showpiece events such as Cup Finals. To expand the game? Well, it doesn't seem to be working on that front, does it? And if it works as well as it did in Wales... Or was it to give the RL family a big day out? Superleague Grand Final. Challenge Cup Final. We don't need anymore and both of those events sell out more tickets than this white elephant.

Anyone from outside RL who tuned into that yesterday would have laughed their nads off seeing the state of the ground. I'd like to think they'd laugh their nads off at the balloons in fancy dress and the rest of the clueless shenanigans that seem to go hand-in-hand with big RL events these days, but I'd guess I'm in a minority on that one inside and outside of the sport.

Diavolo Rosso wrote:It looked terrible on television, awful. At least when it was at Cardiff you could hear something resembling an atmosphere on the TV.

On a weekend when the Rah-Rahs are filling Croke Park (82,000) and the getting 45,000 at Cardiff for two semi-finals getting a total of ~40,000 to Edinburgh for seven matches is abysmal. No wonder the paper and TV coverage was almost non-existent.

No matter how enjoyable the day(s) itself may be the event needs to be ditched or at the very least be moved to a much smaller stadium (Villa Park anyone?). Three years on and it has achieved nothing.

Fungus The Muffin Man wrote:So the RFl shouldn't do it cos you and a handful of the usual suspects don't like it It's a shame thousands of other supporters did like it.

It's done to expand the game and "IF" in the event of that people get to have a good experience and heaven forbid enjoy themselves then so be it.
OMFG!!!!!! it's terrible isn't it.

I sympathise with those priced out of it. For us it was France with the kids and miss out on Celtic and Edinburgh or vice versa. You won't hear me moaning cos we couldn't afford to go France. We were gutted to miss a Salford game, but I get the feeling we made the right choice.

But to have an opinion on how successful the whole weekend was when you either wasn't there or turned up for one game then went straight back home is just ludicrous.

Diavolo Rosso wrote:It looked terrible on television, awful. At least when it was at Cardiff you could hear something resembling an atmosphere on the TV.

On a weekend when the Rah-Rahs are filling Croke Park (82,000) and the getting 45,000 at Cardiff for two semi-finals getting a total of ~40,000 to Edinburgh for seven matches is abysmal. No wonder the paper and TV coverage was almost non-existent.

No matter how enjoyable the day(s) itself may be the event needs to be ditched or at the very least be moved to a much smaller stadium (Villa Park anyone?). Three years on and it has achieved nothing.

Fungus The Muffin Man wrote:But to have an opinion on how successful the whole weekend was when you either wasn't there or turned up for one game then went straight back home is just ludicrous.

chrismum wrote:It is done to expand the game? So how does getting short of 60,000 people - 99.9% of whom would go to a game and enjoy it wherever it was - for 7 matches, thus making it look a complete laughing stock to the rugby union fans in Scotland who will never accept rugby league expand the game. Look at celtics fanbase. How many people did millenium magic attract to the game?

The simple fact of the matter is that there were fewer people watching the entire weekend than there would have been in total watching each individual game seperately and the game has no bigger profile in Scotland than it did before (other than a few people who might have had some good crack in the bars with you all). I'm sure it was fun while it lasted but when you look at what it is supposedly designed to do - FAILURE.

Walshovski wrote:Come on then what did we miss by going home after watching the game of the team we support? The whole top flight of our sport can't fill half a stadium, shows how highly regard it is by fans. And how on earth is that intended to spread the game? You spread the game from grass roots up simple as, not gimmicky gimpfests like this weekend.

Anyway I'm off there is 3 amateur games on at The Willows I'm gonna go and watch, just got to sort my fancy dress costume out first.