I was talking to an ex safety officer yesterday who still has friends associated with different clubs. Some of them had a safety briefing related to the Magic Weekend games and were told that ticket sales were way down on previous years. I think he said that less than 20,000 had been sold in total.

That’s an awful amount

To be honest, I can’t see the Yorkshire clubs bringing as many as usual to Magic. There is no Hull derby, Leeds are playing London etc
Obviously Wire and Saints will take the most I would expect, being local and playing well. Wigan, due to their current form, maybe a little less.

Local Newcastle folk interest was thought to be upwards of 10 to 20% of the gate I heard a radio journalists once say.

I think we'd be lucky to get up to 2% of the scouse community at Liverpool...however I would expect up to 2-3k more team support from St Helens and 1-2k more Wire fans..and perhaps 500-1k more from Wigan that'll off set the local shortfall.

2% of the scouse community at Liverpool should boost the crowd by 44,000.

I heard we have sold 8000, which is pretty decent I reckon.