There are penalties & drop goals, that's it.

Disappointing for Leeds Carnegie to go out by such a narrow margin at Newcastle.

Would have been interesting to see all the internationals Newcastle have already arrogantly signed on the basis that they were going to be promoted playing at Doncaster and Nottingham next year.

Plus, anything that rains on a Dean Richards parade cannot possibly be wrong.

So it's them vs Bedford in the final and Bedford can't go up anyway right?

Had the radio on Friday morning and they talked about the Magic Weekend for a few minutes but not even a mention of today's Aviva Prem final. Club RU is just dwarfed by the international game.

81,703 at Twickenham.....hardly dwarfed.

Magic weekend is 7 games....will it get close to 80k?

I suggest you stop trying to put down the bigger and more popular code and instead, concentrate on the positives of TGG.......union is a far bigger code and all you're doing is making yourself look like a bitter little man!

TBF, he is hardly unique in this.

297 empty seats at Twickenham I am sure heads will roll at the RFU

Did I say that ?

The Aviva averages 12,500 this year, down 4%....but still 1,700,000 fans through the doors.....International Union in England will see about 800,000 through the gates of Twickenham this year.
BBC Sports landing page yesterday had the aviva result and the rabo result highlighted.....not a dicky about the magic weekend. Your assertion that international union dwarfs the club game is incorrect.....as full houses at Twickenham and the RDS clearly show.

oh, by the way, you mentioned magic weekend first....57,000 over 2 days and 7 games and half the column inches that the aviva final received.....I'd stop trying to put down the bigger and better run code if I were you...as I said.....you look like a bitter and twisted individual.

The biggest news from the final wasn't the result it was the fact that Hartley might miss the Lions tour after being sentoff.

12,500 average across the season, 1,700,000 over the year. 800,000 at Internationals in the same period...

1,700,000 is over twice the amount of 800,000.......Club union is not dwarfed by International Union.........

As I said, you really should stop trying to make the bigger, more popular and better run code look bad.....you come across as very bitter and twisted.

Explain this to me....how can Saracens attract a crowd of 83,000+ to a regular season game they marketed as an "event" and yet the RFL can't attract anywhere near that number to 7 "event games"?
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By the way, Premiership soccer is dwarfed by Internationals using your warped logic....35,903 average domestically (13,700,000), 85,000 internationally......(240,000).

No Rugby League club has anything like the private school monopoly of clubs like Saracens.. who interestingly had to build their new ground with a capacity of 10,000 since noone turned up at their weekly fixtures.

You only really served to highlight my point really, which was not (as you suggested) to make Union look bad, but to contemplate this huge gulf between the Aviva Premiership and the international stage.

12,500 for the regular league season, yet they could fill Twickers several times over for a big international. Where the hell do the bandwagoners go? Fascinates me.

On the other hand, the Aviva final was a surprisingly entertaining affair, no doubt helped by the absence of the dour Saracens from the game. They would no doubt have diluted it into a try-less kickathon.

Indeed.. the main headline on Daily Mail rugby union section was about Hartley... didn't even mention the score. Massively unfair to Leicester who would have won anyway once they ground down the Northampton pack.