The Wigan v Saints games at Magic Weekends have often been some of the poorest and least intense games.

How about they select the fixtures on the Sunday night before.....1st v 2nd, 3rd v 4th etc......

London v Widnes
Wakey v Castleford
Salford v HKA
The Airport
St Helens v Hull
French v Hudds
Wire v Pies.

It's not like the fans and clubs don't know where the games will be played.......and I reckon the fixtures above would all be very competative......more so than London and Widnes shipping 50+ points each

Would never work what with people having to know the day that they play months in advance in some cases.

WTF
OK.....if you are joking, I am laughing with you.....but if you're serious....I repeat, WTF

Working Saturdays/Sundays is more and more a fact of life in the UK, but would it really be a massive hardship to get a shift swapped?

Fair enough.....draw the games from the table after round 11...3 Weeks notice to get a shift changed......

I agree gutterfax. Would only be the same as the Challenge Cup draws.

If they are giving SL points for it then it has to be as even as possible imo.

Agree to a certain extent, I preferred the format they used a couple of years ago, on league places (maybe the previous season?)

Looking at the fixtures there will be 3 walkovers this weekend IMO.

We want a full staduim.

Have the fixtures to get that.

Agree....Catalans and Hudds are 1/10 respectively....Wire are 1/20

This but have it so that it's 1st v 2nd, 3rd v 4th etc. Should ensure a full house because every team will be up for a win but not guaranteed of it. As it stands this year it would have meant.

Pies v Wire
Hudds v Cats
Hull v Saints
Bulls v Leeds
Hull KR v Salford
Cas v Wakey
Cellar Dwellers v Cellar Dwellers

It would be good to name the fixtures around 4 weeks before the event actually started. Although we knew how the system works and I am looking forward to Saturday so much, its just another guarenteed 2 points for Warrington.

Id like to be paired with a team in the position around yourselves.

1 Vs 2
3 Vs 4
5 Vs 6
7 Vs 8
9 Vs 10
11 Vs 12
13 Vs 14

Is it reasonable that Wire get to bag a guaranteed extra 2 points off Widnes, just to prop up the increasingly clunky derby format?

I'd agree that if SL points are at stake, it should be 1v2, 3v4 etc etc.

I've always said teams should be drawn out of a hat. If they could make it so the teams get split into a Saturday and Sunday group by a preliminary draw, could you imagine the interest in a lottery the morning of Magic? It would be real WWE-like stuff. Even if that's unlikely, they could always draw it like the CC.

Otherwise, I think they should draw the games from rivalries, but not the traditional rivalry of the neighbours.

IE -

Wigan v Salford
Saints v Warrington
Leeds v Cas
Hull v Wakefield
Hull KR v Huddersfield
London v Catalan

I think they did something like this at Murrayfield?

3 reserved seating concession tickets for sale if any one wants them a bit cheaper, bought them a while ago but can't go now!

Widnes have sold 1000 tickets. Thought we'd take a lot more but not surprising really the way we've been playing plus the opposition.