Re: The Magic Weekend 2010 : Sun May 02, 2010 1:30 pm  

Manchester Magic on the second May Bank holiday. Football season has finished, summer has just begun. Breathe some life back into schools/amateur RL in the heartlands. Fill COM for both days, dead easy for fans everywhere to get to, huge spaces all round ground to set up everything and more that has been in Edinburgh. Huge festival of RL on the doorstep. Make all the games derbies, apart from Hull, proximity to Manchester shouldn't hugely affect numbers.

Can't really see how it wouldn't be a massive success.

Re: The Magic Weekend 2010 : Sun May 02, 2010 1:34 pm  

Scanners wrote:

Manchester Magic on the second May Bank holiday. Football season has finished, summer has just begun. Breathe some life back into schools/amateur RL in the heartlands. Fill COM for both days, dead easy for fans everywhere to get to, huge spaces all round ground to set up everything and more that has been in Edinburgh. Huge festival of RL on the doorstep. Make all the games derbies, apart from Hull, proximity to Manchester shouldn't hugely affect numbers.

Can't really see how it wouldn't be a massive success.

FFS, not again.
How bloody hard is it for you to understand, neither football side in Manchester will allow seven games of RL to be played on their pitch?

Re: The Magic Weekend 2010 : Sun May 02, 2010 1:36 pm  

Big Graeme wrote:

FFS, not again.
How bloody hard is it for you to understand, neither football side in Manchester will allow seven games of RL to be played on their pitch?

How about at the Willows?

Re: The Magic Weekend 2010 : Sun May 02, 2010 1:39 pm  

Scanners wrote:

Manchester Magic on the second May Bank holiday. Football season has finished, summer has just begun. Breathe some life back into schools/amateur RL in the heartlands. Fill COM for both days, dead easy for fans everywhere to get to, huge spaces all round ground to set up everything and more that has been in Edinburgh. Huge festival of RL on the doorstep. Make all the games derbies, apart from Hull, proximity to Manchester shouldn't hugely affect numbers.

Same weekend as the football play-off finals, which could end up being in Manchester next season anyway because Wembley is double-booked with the Champions League final.

Can't really see how it wouldn't be a massive success.

Depends on what you define by "success". In terms of ticket sales, perhaps. In terms of profile, links and investment from partners outside RL (think Visit Scotland, Visit Wales, etc) and as an exercise to lessen the "northern sport for northern people" image, I can't see what yet another RL event in Manchester would achieve. After all, we have a Grand Final held there. We also have 13 Super League rounds held in the Manchester area throughout the year that attract pitiful crowds.

Re: The Magic Weekend 2010 : Sun May 02, 2010 1:42 pm  

Ewwenorfolk wrote:

How about at the Willows?

More chance of that new stadium being finished mate

Re: The Magic Weekend 2010 : Sun May 02, 2010 2:08 pm  

Wire_Yed wrote:

Or
1v2
3v4
5v6
7v8
9v10
11v12
13v14

No one would know who they had until a week before

Thats what I've been saying. Wigan v Wire would have been a beauty this weekend. Hardly seems fair to be that Warrington have been able to massively boost their points difference in this extra game. Those 52 points gained could be the difference between a home or away play off come September. Who knows.

Re: The Magic Weekend 2010 : Sun May 02, 2010 2:15 pm  

Big Graeme wrote:

FFS, not again.
How bloody hard is it for you to understand, neither football side in Manchester will allow seven games of RL to be played on their pitch?

And how do you reach this conclusion? Where has this been stated, for example, by Manchester City? The PL season has finished by that time. They could let the grass grow a bit longer to protect the surface which would then have until the end of August before being used for PL games again. Is 10 weeks not long enough to repair any damage that might be done?

Correct me if I am wrong but the COM has hosted many events in the football off season with thousands of people and stages all over the playing surface. Ricky Hatton has staged big fights there. You are as ever talking rubbish and sniping without any back up for your pathetic jibes.

Re: The Magic Weekend 2010 : Sun May 02, 2010 2:25 pm  

bramleyrhino wrote:

Same weekend as the football play-off finals, which could end up being in Manchester next season anyway because Wembley is double-booked with the Champions League final.

Depends on what you define by "success". In terms of ticket sales, perhaps. In terms of profile, links and investment from partners outside RL (think Visit Scotland, Visit Wales, etc) and as an exercise to lessen the "northern sport for northern people" image, I can't see what yet another RL event in Manchester would achieve. After all, we have a Grand Final held there. We also have 13 Super League rounds held in the Manchester area throughout the year that attract pitiful crowds.

So Saracens and Quins at Twickers and Wembley reinforces union being a southern sport for southern people does it? Isn't there a North West tourist board? Maybe Manchester City Council would jump on board, like they did to get England RU to Old Trafford? The council does after all own the COM does it not?

Salford IS NOT Manchester. The amount of RL played in Manchester itself is pitiful. The game is very weak in many of the towns around Manchester also. Put some strength back into the roots of the game for once. Have a massive promotional push to reinforce the grass roots and get every local authority around the area involved, eg all those in AGMA. That's ten councils with a total populations of over a couple of million to get the game into all the schools.

Plenty of expansion to be done on the doorstep too................

Re: The Magic Weekend 2010 : Sun May 02, 2010 2:29 pm  

Scanners wrote:

You are as ever talking rubbish and sniping without any back up for your pathetic jibes.

And as ever you are talking without thinking, you make suggestions without bothering to check if the grounds want the games played and totally discount the whole value of the weekend, I expect no more from a union troll though.

Re: The Magic Weekend 2010 : Sun May 02, 2010 2:29 pm  

scrap it - 26 games home and away and nobody has to worry about it. If we must have an away day - Challenge Cup Quarter Finals - 4 games over 2 days - sorted.