Who gives a flying f*ck about that game anymore? Anyone?

Never did to be honest. The whole concept of MM is redundant imo

Not right now no, but come the week before its the same as ever.

They must be smashed.

Playing saints 10 times in 2 seasons is pathetic, could be 12 if we get them in the playoffs. Time to scrap tragic weekend.

it's basically an uneven slant on the season as some teams could get an easy match and others a difficult one......if they are going to persist with it then play it after round 13 and have 1 v 2, 3 v 4, 5 v 6 etc etc.......at least all games will be close and I for one am not bothered about another local derby match.....we play the stains enough times in a season with Challenge cup and playoffs as it is........ Derby's have a special feel when they are meaningful games and are played less often.....

turn it into a Seven's tournament and add NL1 (or whatever they are called now), market it better than they did the Magic weekend and put a have nice little winning bonus of say £20k which would make it worthwhile for the lower clubs to attend (if they won) would probably get higher ticket sales with more clubs involved and with the games being shorter, you could rotate the players and use more youngsters throughout the day giving players a game but others a much needed rest

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Agree - never attended a magic event and never will - always looks poor on television.

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).