Quote: jools "I’ve been to every single magic weekend. Both days for each.
I can honestly say this year has been totally pants. There is no magic anymore. My
Mum fell asleep, the kids were bored stupid.
Sorry Newcastle but you’ve served up some right sh*** this year. And I’m not talking just about the rugby.
No crowd interaction with the games/ cams/ compère etc. No interviews with players past or present. In fact very little entertainment at all. We got a few girls dancing about, some little kids playing, some crap with spacehoppers, And a live band you couldn’t see so Might as well put on a CD. Only One Screen - too tiny to see anything on. Sod all atmosphere -and with the cracking weather we’ve had the place should have been bouncing.
Please let’s go back to etihad- at least they know how to entertain a crowd - and we get entertainment for our money!'"
I will agree with you about the entertainment, but that is down to the RFL not Newcastle. Manchester for me is rubbish, people will only go for 1 of the days (not the weekend) it`s too close to home. The weekend just gone had a lot of competition from the wedding, the FA cup, the scottish cup final, plus the fact that the RFL did not promote the game as they should have. None of the locals I spoke to knew anything was on until the actual weekend. Apart from that we had a cracking weekend and so did a lot of others. Wish they would make it a permanent base.
