There should be a decent turnout from locals hopefully.

I live in Didsbury in Manchester and there are alot of billboards up advertising the event (at least the last month or two now). There's adverts on the electronic boards on the inner ring road and was on the manchester council website the other day and it was on the homepage.

Even just watching the Manchester derby just seen it on the electronic boards that run alongside the pitch.

Good work RFL

I expect there to be a late rush from the NW clubs. With it being so close, many will leave it until last minute. I'd be surprised if there weren't a lot turning up on the day.

The Salford game isn't a derby, but I'd think that almost all the season ticket holders will be going (not that many, to be fair). Salford ST holders get either one day or both days free entry to MM depending on the level of membership (don't ask). This was in place before the venue was announced, so being so close was an unexpected bonus. There would be more walk up Salford supporters going had we been playing a team we had a realistic chance of beating, or at least matching.

Yeah, sorry I didn't mean to say Salford were playing a derby. I wrote the sentence about the other 4 NW teams and then remembered I'd missed out Salford (and forgot to change the rest!).

Bit unfortunate that you've got an inform Huddersfield team. But the game is right on your doorstep, so you'd imagine that the vast majority of your supporters should be going (especially if it's free to season ticket holders). How many season ticket holders are there at Salford?

I think late Sunday will be the best atmosphere of any day since the Magic weekend started. Leeds v Bradford is a great appetiser for Wigan v Saints and most supporters will stay to support Saints against the crybabies. Having said that, the Bradford fans might want to get home before they have to pay the babysitter another couple of hours. You know what they're like in "Rita, Sue and Bob too" land.

I was going to buy my tickets a few weeks back but didn't because the website wasn't working. Then the Bulls announced their financial problems and I've been holding off just to make sure that the Leeds v Bulls game actually takes place. Should be ok now but I reckon a lot of Bulls fans that pledged will try to get some money back by giving the weekend a miss.

The Bulls situation raises a potential issue with Magic Weekend, if a team cant fulfill its fixtures. Normally the matches played by that team are erased from the records, but what happens to the team that played their Magic Weekend fixture against the team that goes bust? If the Bulls fail to fulfill our fixtures (which is still a possibility) Leeds will end up playing one less fixture than everyone else. I cant see how that would be resolved.