[sizeA)[/size It's needs to be turned into an event all rugby fans want to see.

Wigan v Wire (evenly matched)
Saints v Leeds (some great battles between the two)
Hull FC v Hull KR (obvious derby)
Bradford v Huddersfield (Local-ish derby)
Wakefield v Castleford (obvious derby)
Quins v Catalans (evenly matched)
Salford v Crusaders (evenly matched)

I'd pay to watch these games

[sizeB)[/size Move it around, have it in a different stadium/area every year. Play at least one in London (This is where the media live) probably The Emirates.

[sizeC)[/size Make it the Fifth round of the cup (last 16, eight matches) ???

[sizeD)[/size play it in summer

It should be the opening to the season. Start the season with a bang, not a whimper.

There seems to be a general feeling to keep magic weekend for financial reasons so maybe we should keep it? I think there is lots of milage in it.

If it were to go maybe replace it with a "heritage round" a la NRL. Old kits and staged at the Galpharm as a big opening round 1??

I agree entirely - that is why I put 'Brough/Cooke' as Cooke replaced Brough and is injured.

You know what they (don't) say "A Slash is not a Comma"

Sounds good in theory, but have you forgotten what the weather was like when this season started? Part of the attraction of Magic/Wacky Weekend, or whatever the RFL are calling it this week, is the al-fresco drinking and socialising in city centre bars and pubs and around the stadium. How many people will want to spend all day outdoors in Edinburgh (or most other UK locations for that matter) in early February? Most of us would have struggled to even get to Edinburgh with the amount of snowfall three months ago.

Agree. I enjoyed the Hull derby at the first Cardiff event, which immediately followed our own game. I'd fancy seeing most of those fixtures, but for the two Edinburgh events almost none of the neutral fixtrues caught my imagination.


Agree in principle, and Arsenal FC would be the best venue in London being much closer to the West End than any other stadium of suitable size, but I think you'd have to offer the club a huge wedge to persuade them to co-operate. They have the best pitch in the country by all accounts and M Wenger would surely do his best to keep us egg chasers off it! Maybe if it was scheduled for straight after the end of the football season to allow plenty of recovery time for the pitch (i.e. Whitsun Bank Holiday) there might be a chance. However that would produ ce a clash with the football play-offs at Wembley and I suspect the Old Bill would stick their oar in to stop our event being scheduled in London at the same time.


Again, sounds alright in principle, but taking this season as an example five SL clubs would have missed out altogether. Unless the competition format is altered so that SL clubs enter at 5th Round stage I can't see this happening, and that would mean most NL clubs having almost no chance of ever having a cup tie against SL opposition.


Ideally it needs to be staged over a three day weekend, so the closest you'll get to summer is the one at the end of May rather than the beginning.

I dont see that as being a problem - it doesnt have to be a Super League only event. If you miss out, you miss out - tough.

Looking at crowds - and not knowing how many Cas fans are travelling today, I would expect Barrow fans to enjoy their big day out and take thousands more than Cas would.

Also means that next year, the fans that miss out would be more keen to go than they would for a normal SL fixture.

It wont happen anyway, the BBC wouldnt screen all 8 games, even though they hvae the digital capacity to do so.

Or
1v2
3v4
5v6
7v8
9v10
11v12
13v14

No one would know who they had until a week before

Do they (not) say that at the same time they (dont) say "when you're playing for Brisbane, you're not playing for Wakefield"? and "When you're fired by Wakefield, you dont play for Wakefield"?

Manchester Magic on the second May Bank holiday. Football season has finished, summer has just begun. Breathe some life back into schools/amateur RL in the heartlands. Fill COM for both days, dead easy for fans everywhere to get to, huge spaces all round ground to set up everything and more that has been in Edinburgh. Huge festival of RL on the doorstep. Make all the games derbies, apart from Hull, proximity to Manchester shouldn't hugely affect numbers.

Can't really see how it wouldn't be a massive success.

FFS, not again.
How bloody hard is it for you to understand, neither football side in Manchester will allow seven games of RL to be played on their pitch?

How about at the Willows?

Same weekend as the football play-off finals, which could end up being in Manchester next season anyway because Wembley is double-booked with the Champions League final.



Depends on what you define by "success". In terms of ticket sales, perhaps. In terms of profile, links and investment from partners outside RL (think Visit Scotland, Visit Wales, etc) and as an exercise to lessen the "northern sport for northern people" image, I can't see what yet another RL event in Manchester would achieve. After all, we have a Grand Final held there. We also have 13 Super League rounds held in the Manchester area throughout the year that attract pitiful crowds.