Quote: MarginMeter "Yes, if we're going for a "magic weekend" my preference would be to have it as the first round of games after the split, which would mean there's not an uneven fixture schedule leading up to the split, all the teams in that final seven games could then have three home and away games plus the "magic" game, and it would operate as a good springboard for that phase of SL. And yes, it would be later in the season and you might need to rearrange some of the Challenge Cup schedule but surely that could be worked around'"
The problem there is that the situation would be similar to play-off games, when people would wait to see who's playing who and not even bother getting tickets. There's already some excitement in the NE about this and it will help the build up if the public know what the fixtures are.
