I really enjoyed today. It’s not perfect, but in a few seasons I hope Widnes will be a much better team, and it will be up there with the other good derby games. 30,000 people went today and enjoyed themselves, success in my book.

Great day out today, the move to Manchester worked well I reckon. Great support to the lads. There is a question of fairness though. How about making it the last game of the regular season and playing the teams who are next to each other in the table against each other ie 1v2, 2v3 etc.

great idea..but who would watch teams that are 12th 11th and so on where they have nothing to play for..imagine cas v widnes..riveting viewing...the 2 weeks before should be 1st v 2nd..3rd v 4th etc etc and etc...

Spot on.

Been a Wire long enough to remember when today's result would have been unthinkable.

And the promise for the future of this club showed itself today.

Mavellous.

Effectively a bye week for Warrington. I'm sure 90% of the people watching Sky switched over to something else after 18 minutes.

How does watching a massacre like that benefit the sport in any way, shape or form? That's what the Magic Weekend is all about of course - promoting the sport.

if wire fans think that the game with widnes was entertaining in any way they need to change their rose colour'd specs, a complete waist of time as will be the dragon game and the giants game, in fact the whole weekend will become a farce. just give wire giants and dragons 2 points and drop their matches!

Personally think this MM weekend is pointless and an ego trip by the rfl. The only team it suited this season was Warrington. It's no wonder the league leaders shield means very little when we get to play Widnes 3 times this season and Saints/ Wigan have to play each other 3 times. 1 game sees 6 points to Wire, whilst the other is a toss of the coin in 3 games.

If we must keep on with MM, then count it as a home/away fixture, ie, Wire classed as the home team 1 season, then Widnes the following season, and stick to 28 games.

We did have eight players out, should have levelled it out. Widnes have beaten the better teams before, it's just unfortunate that those teams didn't have the fantastic squad depth that Tony Smith has at his disposal.

I Loved every minute of it the thrashing we handed out to Widnes was a bonus!!
Great turnout by the Wire Supporters great Reception for Richie Mathers great Banter with all the other fans!!
Keep it in Manchester thats what i say..

Let the top six play each other!!
Let the bottom six play each other and intruduce a couple of points extra for the team that scores the most points or conceades the less points..

We got an easy game, Wigan and Saints have got a hard game, and people on here are complaining about it? Keep it as it is!

Anyway, I've never been to Magic Weekend before as I've never been interested in it as a concept and we've never had an actual derby in it before this season. I went yesterday though because it was local and we were playing our rivals and I enjoyed the whole day thoroughly. I still wouldn't go to Cardiff or Edinburgh for it, but if it stays in Manchester I'll be there every year.

As ever, everyone who went enjoyed it immensely, but you still get a few weirdos who've never attended the event saying it should be scrapped.

On the fixtures, I agree that something needs to be done, but this is surely incompatible with the 'teams at the top play each other too often' argument? If you make it 1 v 2, 3 v 4, these are exactly the sorts of teams who are likely to meet each other again in semi finals, playoffs and finals.

I always enjoy the Magic Weekend however I would like to play Saints, Wigan or Leeds at a Magic Weekend, we've had Salford, Huddersfield, Hull KR and Widnes so no disrespect to those teams but we've not had a huge game.

They need to mix the teams up so each fixture is enticing and well attended, they did try it before with a random draw but that didn't work.

You could have a regional draw i suppose

Wire
Saints
Widnes
Wigan
Salford
Catalan

then

Hudds
Leeds
Bradford
Hull KR
Hull FC
Wakefield
Castleford
London

An East and West day?

Personally would still prefer 1v2

Leave it as it is,im old enough to remember the tough games in yesteryear with widnes,are we now saying we should e punished because we have progressed and they havn't??

Keep it as it is...Great stadium, nice and easy to get to, brilliant fan zone set up outside i think its a brilliant celebration of our great game..

Whats the problem? oh yes Wigan fans are bleating because we hammered Widnes...Something they did to every team every week in the 80's...
Was this bad for the game then?? Their answer "its not our fault everyone else is crap they just need to try harder"...

Widnes were a quality team and are now rebuilding they will get there and derbies will be competative again...I don't get the ultra critical Rugby League public sometimes and their wanting to change everything and complain about everything...