Bulls skipper Iestyn Harris has backed proposals to switch an entire round of Super League matches to Cardiff saying: Welsh people really do love the game.

The imaginative plan to host six fixtures over a full weekend at the Millennium Stadium next April is still being discussed but has been well received by clubs.

And dual Wales international Harris - who spent three years with Cardiff RU - believes the concept for the 13-man game in the traditionally union stronghold will continue gaining support.

"I think it's a really good idea," he said.

"Certainly with the Challenge Cup moving away from Cardiff it's really important to keep rugby league in south Wales.

"There is a big following there and with a full round of Super League it's going to create real interest.

"Long-term, if we can start up a Super League club down there this won't do them any harm whatsoever.

"I know from my time in Cardiff that people do watch Super League on Sky, especially when the union season is finished, and now they could go and watch it live at the Millennium Stadium.

"There's a four or five-month period when everyone tunes into Sky Sports and people really love it.

"And if a team was set up in Bridgend I think you'll get ten or 12,000 a week."

National League newcomers Celtic Crusaders plan to stage a home match in Bridgend on the Friday to catch early arrivals from the north and they have their sights set on winning a Super League franchise in 2009.

Three games would then take place at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday with the following three on Sunday.

The Welsh Tourist Board and Cardiff Council, mindful of the major financial impact on the area created by the staging of the Challenge Cup final in south Wales, are said to be willing to offer a major cash incentive of up to £500,000 to persuade the clubs to back the move.

The last three Challenge Cup finals all attracted full houses to the Millennium Stadium, including an estimated 15,000 locals, and the farewell' to Cardiff last August was greeted with some sadness.

Harris added: "Certainly if they pick the right sides Leeds versus Bradford, Wigan and Saints, Warrington and Salford and, if they get up, Hull KR with Hull, it will be a really exciting weekend. Then who knows, maybe do the same in Edinburgh next year."

One-off Super League matches were held in Swansea and Cardiff in 1998 but the Welsh people really took to the sport during the last three years when the Challenge Cup final was held in the capital.

Now the RFL are hoping to build on that and make sure that the return to London doesn't undo all the hard work.