: Mon May 04, 2009 4:53 pm  

EmmaMur01 wrote:

Must be hard, really hard. Who is it again who is forcing you to go??

I go because I enjoy watching RL but I believe the accomodation and travelling costs make the long journey questionable in the long run.

: Mon May 04, 2009 4:55 pm  

ant1 wrote:

I go because I enjoy watching RL but I believe the accomodation and travelling costs make the long journey questionable in the long run.

So dont go. Nobody is forcing you to go. iMO it was great value for money.

: Mon May 04, 2009 4:55 pm  

ant1 wrote:

I go because I enjoy watching RL but I believe the accomodation and travelling costs make the long journey questionable in the long run.

So what your saying is its YOUR decision to go so you can't complain if you make the choice to go.

And Adam, I would imagine to move it to somewhere like Newcastle they would have to move it to a different point in the season so as not to clash with the football.

: Mon May 04, 2009 4:55 pm  

I look at the Magic in two ways.

First, it's a great way to take the game to new areas, but given that Scotland sustains only two pro rugby union teams I doubt that a league team would ever be viable.

Second, it undermines the league programme even further. When a ludicrous eight out of 14 teams qualify for the play-offfs, the regular season is all but meaningless for many clubs. Tacking on an extra fixture only makes this worse.

: Mon May 04, 2009 4:55 pm  

Frosties. wrote:

why would Newcastle put there pitch in jepody when it could a business part of the season

Cash - large bundles of cash – Murryfield must have made a fortune this weekend on lager sales alone not to mention the overpriced food stalls.

: Mon May 04, 2009 5:00 pm  

Newcastle would struggle to provide sufficient accomodation over a bank holiday weekend. It caters for the stag and hen market and weekend accomodation is very difficult to secure. To play on a football pitch (aside from a national stadium)would mean moving the weekend to the bank holiday at the end of may to avoid clashing with end of season or playoff games.

: Mon May 04, 2009 5:06 pm  

morpeth rhino wrote: Newcastle would struggle to provide sufficient accomodation over a bank holiday weekend. It caters for the stag and hen market and weekend accomodation is very difficult to secure. To play on a football pitch (aside from a national stadium)would mean moving the weekend to the bank holiday at the end of may to avoid clashing with end of season or playoff games. We managed to book a sh1tty little hotel right on Dean St last year for a stag weekend with no problems, and of course there are plenty of hotels out of town but within a Metro or taxi ride - I'd be happy to give anyone a review of any hotel in Whitley Bay, I've stayed in them all, unfortunately most of the ones that I stayed in are now closed, I even set fire to one of them once, but there you are...

morpeth rhino wrote: Newcastle would struggle to provide sufficient accomodation over a bank holiday weekend. It caters for the stag and hen market and weekend accomodation is very difficult to secure. To play on a football pitch (aside from a national stadium)would mean moving the weekend to the bank holiday at the end of may to avoid clashing with end of season or playoff games. We managed to book a sh1tty little hotel right on Dean St last year for a stag weekend with no problems, and of course there are plenty of hotels out of town but within a Metro or taxi ride - I'd be happy to give anyone a review of any hotel in Whitley Bay, I've stayed in them all, unfortunately most of the ones that I stayed in are now closed, I even set fire to one of them once, but there you are...

: Mon May 04, 2009 5:11 pm  

McLaren_Field wrote: We managed to book a sh1tty little hotel right on Dean St last year for a stag weekend with no problems, and of course there are plenty of hotels out of town but within a Metro or taxi ride - I'd be happy to give anyone a review of any hotel in Whitley Bay, I've stayed in them all, unfortunately most of the ones that I stayed in are now closed, I even set fire to one of them once, but there you are... the quayside is deathly quiet now. Most people tend to go along collingwood street or the light. Whitley bay is now a chavvy dump and staying there is a fair distance from newcastle CC although teh metro helps. Anyway I want a weekend away not a bus trip into the toon!

McLaren_Field wrote: We managed to book a sh1tty little hotel right on Dean St last year for a stag weekend with no problems, and of course there are plenty of hotels out of town but within a Metro or taxi ride - I'd be happy to give anyone a review of any hotel in Whitley Bay, I've stayed in them all, unfortunately most of the ones that I stayed in are now closed, I even set fire to one of them once, but there you are... the quayside is deathly quiet now. Most people tend to go along collingwood street or the light. Whitley bay is now a chavvy dump and staying there is a fair distance from newcastle CC although teh metro helps. Anyway I want a weekend away not a bus trip into the toon!

: Mon May 04, 2009 5:22 pm  

morpeth rhino wrote: the quayside is deathly quiet now. Most people tend to go along collingwood street or the light. Whitley bay is now a chavvy dump and staying there is a fair distance from newcastle CC although teh metro helps. Anyway I want a weekend away not a bus trip into the toon! I'll tell you how bad Whitley Bay is now - we stayed with the in-laws over xmas and for a laugh one day I drove myself to Blyth to see if it was still poop, the answer was its still very poop, but I parked the car and walked around Blyth, just to see first hand how poop it is - then I drove to Whitley Bay and drove through it, I didn't stop the car, not even for red lights, thats how bad it is, its worse than Blyth and never in my lifetime did I ever think I'd say that about any town.

morpeth rhino wrote: the quayside is deathly quiet now. Most people tend to go along collingwood street or the light. Whitley bay is now a chavvy dump and staying there is a fair distance from newcastle CC although teh metro helps. Anyway I want a weekend away not a bus trip into the toon! I'll tell you how bad Whitley Bay is now - we stayed with the in-laws over xmas and for a laugh one day I drove myself to Blyth to see if it was still poop, the answer was its still very poop, but I parked the car and walked around Blyth, just to see first hand how poop it is - then I drove to Whitley Bay and drove through it, I didn't stop the car, not even for red lights, thats how bad it is, its worse than Blyth and never in my lifetime did I ever think I'd say that about any town.

: Mon May 04, 2009 5:35 pm  

Whitley bay went down the lowest common denominator ( as has the Bigg Market) many years ago and nopw anyone with any sense wouldnt go anywhere near it. as a weekend destination newcastle will get nowhere near edinburgh.