: Sat Apr 25, 2009 7:33 pm  

GIANT DAZ wrote:

i think that 2 major factors this year will affect the crowds:

1) the last 2 years have been derby games for all the teams involved
2) the Millenium Stadium is a great venue in the middle of a city centre, Murrayfield isnt.

so maybe those 2 things were what brought the fans to the magic weekend, now those have been taken away people arent as interested.

Conversely, Edinburgh is more of a touristy city with much more accommodation than Cardiff.

No one knows how many will be there. The RFL have estimated 75,000 over the weekend.

: Sat Apr 25, 2009 7:41 pm  

Mark_W wrote:

Conversely, Edinburgh is more of a touristy city with much more accommodation than Cardiff.

No one knows how many will be there. The RFL have estimated 75,000 over the weekend.

true,but i was only basing that on my thoughts and experience.
i suppose eveyone has their own opinions and reasons

: Sat Apr 25, 2009 7:43 pm  

Mark_W wrote:

Conversely, Edinburgh is more of a touristy city with much more accommodation than Cardiff.

No one knows how many will be there. The RFL have estimated 75,000 over the weekend.

I have heard that 100,000 people could show up.


If not this year then another year, when Toulouse and London Olympic are in SL, and can bring their massive supporter bases with them.

: Sat Apr 25, 2009 8:18 pm  

From Wigan's site:; Wigan wrote: The Warriors have been inundated with bookings for the showpiece event, which this year is held in Edinburgh, and with this massive late surge the Warriors are on course to be the best supported club at the event for the third year running. Three extra batches of tickets have all sold out during the course of the last week, with a fourth batch arriving today (Saturday). http://www.wiganwarriors.com/news_full.asp?newsid=4432

From Wigan's site:; Wigan wrote: The Warriors have been inundated with bookings for the showpiece event, which this year is held in Edinburgh, and with this massive late surge the Warriors are on course to be the best supported club at the event for the third year running. Three extra batches of tickets have all sold out during the course of the last week, with a fourth batch arriving today (Saturday). http://www.wiganwarriors.com/news_full.asp?newsid=4432

: Sat Apr 25, 2009 8:40 pm  

Alice's Phallus wrote:

I have heard that 100,000 people could show up.


If not this year then another year, when Toulouse and London Olympic are in SL, and can bring their massive supporter bases with them.

Yeah, they could share a taxi.

: Sat Apr 25, 2009 9:29 pm  

I think Rovers, Hull, Wigan, Wire, Leeds and Saints will take their usual healthy amount and Wakey support surprised a few last year.

As long as a good atmosphere is created i'm not bothered.
Sunday will be better attended though (even if it's just cos there is more games).

: Sat Apr 25, 2009 9:45 pm  

Fully wrote:

Wrong thread.

How the love did that happen?

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

: Sun Apr 26, 2009 8:20 am  

GIANT DAZ wrote:

i think that 2 major factors this year will affect the crowds:

1) the last 2 years have been derby games for all the teams involved
2) the Millenium Stadium is a great venue in the middle of a city centre, Murrayfield isnt.

so maybe those 2 things were what brought the fans to the magic weekend, now those have been taken away people arent as interested.

Wire didn't have a derby game last year, or technically the year before either.

AS far as i've heard we've shifted a 1k tickets, i think thats for both days, we for both cardiff dates there were a lot of day trippers who went down for just the days we were playing.

: Sun Apr 26, 2009 9:12 am  

I'm going but not looking forward to it as much as when they did the derbies, even though the Wire nev er really had one for the last couple of years. Not sure whether I'll go next year, but would definately go if it was all derbies. Think the clubs need to suck it up.

wigan complaining about playin Saints, well over the last few seasons Wire v Saints have been far more entertaining games, but then the league wouldn't make that change.

: Sun Apr 26, 2009 9:19 am  

The_Wolfman wrote:

I'm going but not looking forward to it as much as when they did the derbies, even though the Wire nev er really had one for the last couple of years. Not sure whether I'll go next year, but would definately go if it was all derbies. Think the clubs need to suck it up.

wigan complaining about playin Saints, well over the last few seasons Wire v Saints have been far more entertaining games, but then the league wouldn't make that change.

See, I had a big issue with the derbies. For a couple of reasons. As a Wire fan, we didn;t even have a proper derby, yet we still travelled in numbers.
Secondly, the 2nd MM was actually quite boring, in that it was a carbon copy of the 1st one. I probably wouldn't have minded a derby element this year, as at least the move to Murrayfield would have made it different, but I wouldn't have gone back to Cardiff this year to watch those derbies again.

I actually think there will be some great games though.