Having checked laterooms.com today a large amount of hotels are already sold out in Manchester , I guess clubs and RFL officials could have Pre booked or could just be a busy time in the city with the long BH weekend

It's actually over 47,000. The tickets will be done the same as they were for the last Magic Weekend.

They only opened the bottom two tiers of the Millenium stadium.

The Millenium stadium holds 75,000, they took away the top tier which holds 33,000. That left 42,000 as the capacity for the event.

It won't be a problem.

Just not interested in the concept full stop.

Bring back playing St.Helens twice a season in the weekly rounds because the derby is getting tired.

the stadium being too full or having to high a demand for tickets is a welcomed problem imo....


no matter how they do it there are going to be people who only want to see their team play... but selling individual match tickets would defeat the whole point of the weekend.

Even if every seat is sold which would be a great achievement its going to be unlikely that the stadium will actually appear full at any point. It is just a regular superleague fixture with not much to play for so people aren't going to be interested who wins.

The RFL have the idea that the weekend is what the fans want. They should send out a questionnaire to every season ticket holder for every club and make it avaiable on line to all other supporters. That way they would have a much better idea of what fans want and I reckon some good ideas on development.
We really struggle to attract support from anywhere other than lancashire and Yorkshire. Expansion to Wales was a real flop so why not encourage a Cumbrian side and take magic up that way? There is already a decent fan base.

There isnt a decent stadium in Cumbria. Or a city big enough to take an influx of 50 thousand+ rugby league fans.

hopefully this is confirmed alot better then taking it to south wales and scotland, great stadium, right size capacity that will look good on tv, played in a big city where media attention could be really good, played in early june so hopefully he weather is good great news for me. in the coming years id also like to see it been taken to places like sheffield and liverpool ect the big cites up here in north

Never been to any of the previous Magic weekends because of costs etc. Seeing as this is so close to home it would be rude not to give it a try. Will only be going on the day Wigan play though.

"Well" I have been to MM in SCOTLAND!!!!!! it was not all i expected, and i was disapointed. People say about traveling 20 mins watching their said team and returning home again. And thats fine. But will you then bring with you the kids, your nan, your mam, and maybe your wife???. Yeah it,s about money, time and having holidays to take (if you work) so do you make it YOUR weekend, or a FAMILY weekend ???? I say "Family" myself. I have yet to go to any Match where one of us in the house did not take a family member or friend with us. Bottoms in seats, means £££££,s on the Gate. And if we are gonna keep it northen, Then whats wrong with going to cumbria ???? they all talk normal, the beer`s cheap, and some of the most hospitable people you will ever met live there. Oh yeah and the mountains "Upps" soz fells are beautiful. And the RFL are now wanting to throw money there. (18 youngsters have signed for SL clubs (scholarships/full time contracts) from cumbria in the last 2 years ) what does that say for a small place wid a big heart xx

What stadium in Cumbria would you play it in?

Thats not Cumbria then though is it?

It's only 200 miles away. Stop splitting hairs

I like the idea of a big event like the magic weekend but it doesn't seem very constructive to unbalance the league structure to broadcast our game with half empty stadia. Not enough people want to watch 3 or 4 games in a day which would keep the stadium full. Small stadiums don't work with the current ticketing system. It's more productive to use this as an international fixture. England vs Exiles is great, but if you push 7 or 8 games down peoples throats over 2 days the boredom factor kicks in. Anything becomes boring if you watch enough of it, no matter how good it is. This makes it impossible to present the games in front of full houses. If this 2 day festival must contnue why not have international fixtures featuring the home nations and others with England v Exiles headlining one day and the world club challenge headlining the other. I realise the world club challenge would dilute the england team by 1 or 2 players but it's a time for trying new players anyway.