That's the way I'd like to see it done.

The organisers seem to work on the premise that having some semblance of proximity for the team will increase attendance figures. This may have a small influence but in the interest of the competition, surely it would be better to have 1st vs 2nd from the previous season, 3rd vs 4th etc?

Lowest attendance at Magic could be on the cards.....52k?????

Quote: Call Me God "Lowest attendance at Magic could be on the cards.....52k?????'" Could be the biggest difference between the Saturday and the Sunday given the lineups. https://mobile.twitter.com/SuperLeague/ ... 6651759616 Going by those ticket sales by club then 5 of the top 6 are playing Saturday.

Quote: Call Me God "Lowest attendance at Magic could be on the cards.....52k?????'" Could be the biggest difference between the Saturday and the Sunday given the lineups. https://mobile.twitter.com/SuperLeague/ ... 6651759616 Going by those ticket sales by club then 5 of the top 6 are playing Saturday.

It'a a concept that is totally pointless, why is it always at Newcastle ? Didn't the RFL introduce this to promote the game at different outposts in the UK to help our game prosper. They will never admit it, but now they have given up on the idea. I know, let's have the 2019 magic weekend in Toronto, the Canadians love their Rugby League.....even though they don't have their own league !

No, but it doesn't stop people making this argument so they can brand the idea as a failure.

It may have been a throwaway line in a press release, but it was never the intention to use Magic Weekend to expand the game. The intention of Magic Weekend is to make money.

The RFL sells the concept to local tourist authorities (Visit Wales paid the RFL £1m for the first one, IIRC). Since then, we've had tourist boards / local authorities in Edinburgh, Newcastle-Gateshead and Manchester all paying to support Magic Weekend.

I get that the typical tight- RL fan objects to the game being played anywhere beyond the boundaries of their bus pass, but we really shouldn't be paying too much attention to those kinds of people.

2000+ Widnes fans going, just sold out of all day and weekend passes for the gallowgate end. Haven’t got a clue how we’ve sold that many but looking forward to it as always.

Saturday is usually the better day. We(Widnes) always seem to get a game then, not complaining but it is a strange one to be matched up against Saints. Try fest for everyone to watch before two great games to finish the day.

First time since they had it at Etihad im going and first time for the full weekend.going up on the friday and weather forecast is good too. looking forward to saturday especially, sod all you miseries

Where have you got 2k Widnes fans from?

Regards

King James

Went to the shop before, day allocation of 400 sold out. Then a second lot of 500 sold out. The third allocation was apparently another 500 and that was excluding the weekend passes we’ve told. Only from what the shop staff were saying.

Could be well off the mark but we’ve always took a decent following to Magic weekend in the past without setting the league on fire.

The town of Widnes, I guess.

Regards

King Budgie

Yeah, but you can't blame 'em for getting out of Cas for a little while.

It's good to see they're still committed to the cause, especially after last seasons debacle.

At least they've got an easy fixture, based on the majority of recent results against Leeds.