Re: Magic Weekend 2017 : Sun Jul 17, 2016 7:37 am  

knockersbumpMKII wrote:

I'd like to see it at Hillsborough, Sheffield, it's centrally located meaning fans can get there from the M62 corridor easily and in many cases 90 minutes or less, but also a damn sight less travel time for those of us in the Southern regions where Newcastle is a 10 hour round trip by car.
Train access is also excellent..

Seriously? I live in WAKEFIELD 22 miles from hillsborough I have a customer across the road from the stadium, it takes me 40 mins to get there and the trams don't come out that far, bad call for a delapadated stadium (irony overload from a Wakey fan)
Have it a Leeds elland road if your wanting it still in the heartlands

Re: Magic Weekend 2017 : Sun Jul 17, 2016 8:09 am  

Don't like the idea of an extra fixture as I believe the season should be everybody plays each other home & away. However, I am willing to accept the Magic Weekend if it is promoting the sport and to do that it needs to be away from the heartlands and move around the country.

On that basis, Liverpool is ruled out because it's on the M62 corridor even though it doesn't have a side. Good venue for 4 Nations Final but not Magic Weekend. Newcastle has had it for a couple of seasons so probably time for a move. I'm not sure if there are plans in Bristol to enter a side into the competition. Therefore, out of the 4 proposed, I would personally choose Coventry to give the game a boost down there

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Re: Magic Weekend 2017 : Sun Jul 17, 2016 9:57 am  

Ste100Centurions wrote:

Let's take it to France ....

Seriously, I am NOT an expansionist but the Frenchies would turn out for it big time & quite a few Brits would travel too *obviously to a big degree down on a UK venue*

but it has better *generally* weather, it's more interesting than going to Newcastle, Cardiff, Liverpool (been to all those places) & the RFL would jizz themselves daft if it went to the Catalan region.

Bring it on.

Edit.

+ with all the poop going on for the French at the moment, an event like this could be a boost & us Brits could show some solidarity with our near neighbours.

Re: Magic Weekend 2017 : Sun Jul 17, 2016 10:10 am  

financialtimes wrote:

Seriously? I live in WAKEFIELD 22 miles from hillsborough I have a customer across the road from the stadium, it takes me 40 mins to get there and the trams don't come out that far, bad call for a delapadated stadium (irony overload from a Wakey fan)
Have it a Leeds elland road if your wanting it still in the heartlands

Leppings Lane tram stop is right next to the stadium... Also got Hillsborough Park just down the road for a fan park.

Bramhall Lane could work also, a little bit smaller, but closer to the city centre. No real place for a fan park there though.

Re: Magic Weekend 2017 : Sun Jul 17, 2016 10:35 am  

If it's a few years since you've been to Nottingham I think you'll find it's changed a lot. Students (preferably rich, foreign ones) are a big new 'industry' there (as they are in many of our cities these days). However they housed in their own 'bantustans' with custom-built apartment blocks, their own branches of Subway, McDonald's, etc. That way they never have to actually mix with the local people. Or use city-centre pubs or suchlike. But it's a phenomenon that's going on all over the country. Bristol and Bath are going down the same route.

I don't live in Nottingham but I am there a fair bit.

Re: Magic Weekend 2017 : Sun Jul 17, 2016 11:50 am  

knockersbumpMKII wrote:

I'd like to see it at Hillsborough, Sheffield, it's centrally located meaning fans can get there from the M62 corridor easily and in many cases 90 minutes or less, but also a damn sight less travel time for those of us in the Southern regions where Newcastle is a 10 hour round trip by car.
Train access is also excellent.

As for expensive hotels/B&B iaround London, not really, the prices are less likely to go up because there is always a surplus of places to stay
As for Coventry, same again, good access and creating a full stadium atmosphere and a demand for tickets will mean no cheap ticket giveaways.

centrally located? Its a good three miles put of sheffield centre and theres bugger all around there. It has to be Newcastle as it has that city cnetre stadium allowing the fans to come in and out. Hillsbrough would be case of attend a game then go home, theres no room for a fan zone either. Its totally unsuitable for a magic weekend

Re: Magic Weekend 2017 : Sun Jul 17, 2016 11:50 am  

Barcelona would be brill if we're taking it abroad!

Re: Magic Weekend 2017 : Sun Jul 17, 2016 12:27 pm  

Wellsy13 wrote:

Barcelona would be brill if we're taking it abroad!

Sam Boyd stadium , Vegas

Re: Magic Weekend 2017 : Sun Jul 17, 2016 5:31 pm  

CM Punk wrote:

Leppings Lane tram stop is right next to the stadium.
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Actually it's on middle wood road

Re: Magic Weekend 2017 : Sun Jul 17, 2016 9:24 pm  

moto748 wrote:

If it's a few years since you've been to Nottingham I think you'll find it's changed a lot. Students (preferably rich, foreign ones) are a big new 'industry' there (as they are in many of our cities these days). However they housed in their own 'bantustans' with custom-built apartment blocks, their own branches of Subway, McDonald's, etc. That way they never have to actually mix with the local people. Or use city-centre pubs or suchlike. But it's a phenomenon that's going on all over the country. Bristol and Bath are going down the same route.

I don't live in Nottingham but I am there a fair bit.

As a student in Nottingham you must be on about Uni of Nottingham as they have their own campus grounds out of the city centre. Nottingham Trent is in the heart of the city and we make use of a lot of what the city has to offer, it's literally 10 minutes from Market Square. A lot of our students actually move out of the uni accommodation for 2nd and 3rd year so we're hardly segregated from the rest of the city. No idea what UoN do though. But it's hardly a surprise students stick to their campuses when it's cheaper for what we need.

I wouldn't host it here though. The City Ground is too small and no actual fan park type area. There's pubs in the vicinity but not sure there's enough (obviously I don't know every pub near the ground) without walking back into the city centre.