I decided to join the World of blogging!! Boredom was a main reason for this... but also because i like to get my views across, especially for my Love of Rugby League!! So here goes... My first Attempt...Magic Weekend...
Well another Magic Weekend has been and gone and in my opinion still not much of a success... I'v been previous years just for the day Wigan played and this year we went for the full weekend. Overall i had a pretty top weekend!! We stayed in Bridgend from Friday - Monday and had a coach take us to the stadium and back on game days! Not too bad for £130!!
Obviously the weekend doesn't appeal to everyone, some people may not be able to afford it, and some people might just want to watch their own team, and fair enough thats understandable! I don't think this event will ever have the success the RFL are hoping for! To me Seven games of Rugby League over two days is pure bliss!! What can i say iv missed it over the off season and was so happy to have Seven live games to watch in the first weekend!!
Overall the games were pretty good... The only game that was quite poor in my opinion was the Catalan V Harlequins game! The Stadium seemed to empty which meant no atmosphere and the game seemed to go on forever, but apart from that the rest of the games were pretty entertaining! Some of the games could have been improved by better reffing but i'm not going to get into that as i would be here forever! I do believe the overall standard of Refs has been pretty poor for the past couple of years. (Childs - 37 Penalties in a game!! Ridiculous!!) I'd Love for the games to just be allowed to flow... but wouldn't we all!!
Obviously the main issue at the moment is the support and getting people to stay for the whole weekend! Personally i cant see it happening...
