Magic Weekend IN

Quote: talulah "There is no rugby league in Manchester, believe me. Most of my neighbours and people in my local don't know the first thing about it even though I live just 5 miles from Salford City Reds ground.
That's just an assumption for which you have no evidence whatsoever. The area around the ground has been developed by MCFC to develop a festival atmosphere at City matches - the cafes and bars and big screen at the northern end are great for fans to mingle. The fact that there are fewer bars than at Cardiff may improve the atmosphere because there'll be a higher density of fans.
...and so is that, although here you admit it is just your opinion. If rugby league supporters are so uninterested in their sport that they go home as soon as their club's match is over then there is no point in running this weekend anywhere.

Your concept of 'captive' audience is pointless. Is there any advantage in having fans sat in a stadium who don't really want to be there, who would rather be at home, and are only there because they can't face a 200 mile trip home? Does that improve the atmosphere?

If a fan who is not as interested in other matches knows that they can be home in 60 minutes, or home in 3 hours, after their club's match, how does that make any difference to their decision to stay or go?
Since the original MM was announced, there have been naysayers and generally miserable bu**ers criticising the event. That's going to happen with RL people whatever the RFL do or don't do. This year [iyour[/i upset by it, and a few others on here too, but that really isn't any different from any other year.'"

If you think introducing rl to mancs is as important to introducing it to the scots and welsh thats upto you, i personally dont, they have sl on there doorstep and choose not to watch, scottish people and welsh people dont so i think its more important to give them a taste of sl to spread the game outside the m62 corridor, having it in manchester will not do this.

I could equally point out you have no evidence to back up your points and that these are just your opinions, i think that people will spread out round manchester, wont arrive long before there club plays and wont stay as long due many of them being able to go the short ride home instead of hanging round outside the ground, leading to a less concentrated amount of rl fans, so we wont have the atmosphere of say rose street in Edinburgh, which was probably the best thing about the event in previous years.

There will be a big reduction on people going for the whole weekend as its much easier and cheaper (especially for lancastrian fans) just to pop down the road for the day, when people are there for the weekend they might not watch all the games but they will watch most of them and when they arent they will be mingling with other rugby fans, if they are there for the day there going to see a maximum of 3 or 4 games (depending on which day they go) so the ground wont have as many fans at any one time. In previous years most fans i spoke to were there for a full weekend, this will unlikely be the case this year leading to a poorer atmosphere inside and outside the stadium.

I agree you cant please everyone, some will always be unhappy, i've been a big fan of previous magic weekends and have talked them up as a great weekend away to the fans i have met, imho moving it to manchester has taken away the best reasons for having the weekend and i find myself asking what is the point in the magic weekend? And how do they ever expect the weekend the be a success if they keep moving it around and dont allow it to put down roots?