Should there still be a Magic Weekend next season?? With the return of relegation can you still reallly have 2 points available in an extra game that could possibly put a team in 9th and have to go into the promotion/relegation play offs when 8th finishes above them possibly by 2 points they got at magic weekend due to play an easier game

Yes - it's an excellent concept and one that needs to be kept.

With the Magic, CC final and GF we've got three big days out for sides played at top stadiums.

Play it the first weekend of the split. Middle 8 one day, top 8 the second. Then in the final 7 games of the season everyone plays home and away 3 times, as well as the magic weekend match. Also, no one has to play each other an extra time and offer unfair advantage...

If it is to be kept it should most definitely be like this instead of regular superleague games

How can you have it the week after the split? We would only know the fixtures one week before. That is not enough for the Magic Weekend. It should be the last round before the split to give it some extra importance.

Knowing the RFL they will run with this kind of idea and even take it one step further by offering a bonus point type system whereby any team scoring over 20 points gets a point. They would see it as a way of making the weekend's games more action packed and there would always be something to play for....

Whatever happens they must keep the weekend overall, its been one of the best additions to the game in recent memory I feel.

I don't think they are that bad.

Personally I think it should be the last game before the split and the top 4 championship clubs from this season should be given the opportunity to play as well, making it 4 games on each day and also adding to the attendance. Fax, Leigh and Fev could potentially add significantly to the attendance IMO. With the lack of big games they play in all 3 could bring a couple of thousand.

Make it the cc quarter final rounds with a few league games for the teams knocked out

That's a sure fire way to kill the "novelty" of the event I would say. If you start devaluing the whole concept by limiting the teams that can be in it then it simply wont make it worth while. If you have it the weekend of the cup especially at the quarter final stage, usually you will have at least 4 of the "big" teams left in the cup.

Its already devalued by the mickey mouse derby games and easy 2 points for certain teams

This, but with 2 games from each tier on each day, otherwise the middle 8 day attendance would be appalling. It is going to be a 23rd fixture before the split though, which is ridiculous IMO.

Agreed.

should be the 12th league game. After every team has played each other once (11 games) then the next weeks fixtures should be the first round of the cup that the top 12 enter. This then gives 2 weeks from game 11 to arrange the Magic fixtures, It should then be 11 v 12, 7 v 8 and 3 v 4 on the Saturday and 9 v 10, 5 v 6 and 1 v 2 on the sunday.........everybody plays a competitive game and 2 weeks to get tickets is no worse than some cup rounds