We have played them too much recently, so it's hard to get excited weeks before hand, however, when it gets to 48 hours before kick-off, I guarentee, butterflies and banter will kick in, and no-one will want to lose.

Only because people like you don't go.

I like the magic weekend never had a bad one even after we got battered by saints and i am looking forward to a day boozing with rugby fans in Manchester followed by some rugby at night.

Went to the mIllenium stadium and i quite enjoyed the whole day as the stadium and the area lends itself to rugby and you could go in and out of the stadium as and when you wanted.

However the games are come across as meaningless and for me thats the crux of it all.

Why not solve the whole stadium availability issue and play all 4 CC quarter final games there instead !

Or all of the 5th round ties, so there's lots of varying teams there playing!



As Bilko said on Twitter, 10 matches in 2 seasons with another possible (likely) one or two against them in the playoffs. Way too much. But then the clubs did apparently vote for how the MM was to be structured and they preferred it to be a derby.

London v Catalans is an historic occasion after all.

Its a Biggun !

I don't think the only issue is people not going. You could sell 48,000 tickets for each day of MM this year and the games will still be played in front of banks of empty seats because fans will always pick and choose the games they wish to attend. Some can only make their own teams games and might have other plans for other parts of the day and some just aren't interested or don't have the attention span to take in a full day of back to back matches.
Add to that, the fact that it artificially skews the leagues standings (Warrington highly likely to be the main beneficiaries once again) and you are left with a flawed concept. The RL have been flogging this dead horse for five years now but the end result to the casual viewer is a game played out in front of a half full stadium at best. You only need 10% of the spectators from other teams matches not to bother watching any other game and the result is <50% of capacity for each game even if all tickets are sold (which they never are anyway).

Please expand.

I choose my games carefully and use the money i have to attend the games that really matter, attending the CC game is where i will choose to spend my money.

I've been to Murrayfield and Cardiff. Thought both were poor. I don't rate the magic concept. It means we have to play Saints, AGAIN! Whilst Leeds play a poor Bradford side and Wire play a poor Widnes side. Get rid!!

The Magic weekend is a complete waste of both time and money in my opinion, additionally the method of using predominantly derby matches in an attempt to boost crowd & viewing figures has an effect on league positions.

For example, Wigan play Saints whilst Warrington get Widnes ... how is that fair?

Get rid, keep the league season to 1 home, 1 away against the other 13 teams.

That's as long as we're allowed to play at home of course

I must saw the RFL/Man City must be praised for advertising the Magic Weekend at last nights game which must have been saw by Millions of people in this country, i know we arnt going to sell out on that advert alone but tell people an event is on and they mite turn up.