Re: The Magic Weekend 2010 : Sat May 01, 2010 10:36 pm  

A) It's needs to be turned into an event all rugby fans want to see.

Wigan v Wire (evenly matched)
Saints v Leeds (some great battles between the two)
Hull FC v Hull KR (obvious derby)
Bradford v Huddersfield (Local-ish derby)
Wakefield v Castleford (obvious derby)
Quins v Catalans (evenly matched)
Salford v Crusaders (evenly matched)

I'd pay to watch these games

B) Move it around, have it in a different stadium/area every year. Play at least one in London (This is where the media live) probably The Emirates.

C) Make it the Fifth round of the cup (last 16, eight matches) ???

D) play it in summer

Re: The Magic Weekend 2010 : Sun May 02, 2010 12:08 am  

It should be the opening to the season. Start the season with a bang, not a whimper.

Re: The Magic Weekend 2010 : Sun May 02, 2010 12:48 am  

[quote="RescuedBlue"]At the end of the day, whilst I agree about the poor showing on the "terraces" - the actual event has managed to persuade me to sit in my trackie bottoms all day and watch every match whilst supping some beers! And I am looking forward to our lass going out tomorrow so I can do the same again. I'm sure there are thousands of others out there who have done the same. Success is measured in many different ways....


So astute and so correct!!!! Stand for PM of thursday Rescued Blue!!! If EVER there was a reason to keep magic weekend THIS WAS IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: The Magic Weekend 2010 : Sun May 02, 2010 1:33 am  

There seems to be a general feeling to keep magic weekend for financial reasons so maybe we should keep it? I think there is lots of milage in it.

If it were to go maybe replace it with a "heritage round" a la NRL. Old kits and staged at the Galpharm as a big opening round 1??

Re: The Magic Weekend 2010 : Sun May 02, 2010 6:35 am  

SmokeyTA wrote:

But that has no relevance to injuries. Danny Brough didnt play for wakefield today, not because he was injured but because he doesnt play for wakefield.

Saying Wakefield would be better with Brough is no different now to saying leeds would be better with Inglis.

the point made about Leeds injuries is that they have affected the quality of their play, and when these players return Leeds will improve, not that if player A who plays for a different club would improve them.

To include players who dont play for Wakefield in a list of players unavailable for Wakefield is clearly nonsense.

I agree entirely - that is why I put 'Brough/Cooke' as Cooke replaced Brough and is injured.

You know what they (don't) say "A Slash is not a Comma"

Re: The Magic Weekend 2010 : Sun May 02, 2010 9:12 am  

back to back to back wrote:

It should be the opening to the season. Start the season with a bang, not a whimper.

Sounds good in theory, but have you forgotten what the weather was like when this season started? Part of the attraction of Magic/Wacky Weekend, or whatever the RFL are calling it this week, is the al-fresco drinking and socialising in city centre bars and pubs and around the stadium. How many people will want to spend all day outdoors in Edinburgh (or most other UK locations for that matter) in early February? Most of us would have struggled to even get to Edinburgh with the amount of snowfall three months ago.

Re: The Magic Weekend 2010 : Sun May 02, 2010 9:32 am  

Wire_Yed wrote:

A) It's needs to be turned into an event all rugby fans want to see.

Wigan v Wire (evenly matched)
Saints v Leeds (some great battles between the two)
Hull FC v Hull KR (obvious derby)
Bradford v Huddersfield (Local-ish derby)
Wakefield v Castleford (obvious derby)
Quins v Catalans (evenly matched)
Salford v Crusaders (evenly matched)

I'd pay to watch these games

Agree. I enjoyed the Hull derby at the first Cardiff event, which immediately followed our own game. I'd fancy seeing most of those fixtures, but for the two Edinburgh events almost none of the neutral fixtrues caught my imagination.

Wire_Yed wrote:

B) Move it around, have it in a different stadium/area every year. Play at least one in London (This is where the media live) probably The Emirates.

Agree in principle, and Arsenal FC would be the best venue in London being much closer to the West End than any other stadium of suitable size, but I think you'd have to offer the club a huge wedge to persuade them to co-operate. They have the best pitch in the country by all accounts and M Wenger would surely do his best to keep us egg chasers off it! Maybe if it was scheduled for straight after the end of the football season to allow plenty of recovery time for the pitch (i.e. Whitsun Bank Holiday) there might be a chance. However that would produ ce a clash with the football play-offs at Wembley and I suspect the Old Bill would stick their oar in to stop our event being scheduled in London at the same time.

Wire_Yed wrote:

C) Make it the Fifth round of the cup (last 16, eight matches) ???

Again, sounds alright in principle, but taking this season as an example five SL clubs would have missed out altogether. Unless the competition format is altered so that SL clubs enter at 5th Round stage I can't see this happening, and that would mean most NL clubs having almost no chance of ever having a cup tie against SL opposition.

Wire_Yed wrote:

D) play it in summer

Ideally it needs to be staged over a three day weekend, so the closest you'll get to summer is the one at the end of May rather than the beginning.

Re: The Magic Weekend 2010 : Sun May 02, 2010 11:36 am  

Prince of Denmark wrote:

Again, sounds alright in principle, but taking this season as an example five SL clubs would have missed out altogether. Unless the competition format is altered so that SL clubs enter at 5th Round stage I can't see this happening, and that would mean most NL clubs having almost no chance of ever having a cup tie against SL opposition.

I dont see that as being a problem - it doesnt have to be a Super League only event. If you miss out, you miss out - tough.

Looking at crowds - and not knowing how many Cas fans are travelling today, I would expect Barrow fans to enjoy their big day out and take thousands more than Cas would.

Also means that next year, the fans that miss out would be more keen to go than they would for a normal SL fixture.

It wont happen anyway, the BBC wouldnt screen all 8 games, even though they hvae the digital capacity to do so.

Re: The Magic Weekend 2010 : Sun May 02, 2010 11:43 am  

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

No one would know who they had until a week before

Re: The Magic Weekend 2010 : Sun May 02, 2010 11:50 am  

Wadski wrote:

I agree entirely - that is why I put 'Brough/Cooke' as Cooke replaced Brough and is injured.

You know what they (don't) say "A Slash is not a Comma"

Do they (not) say that at the same time they (dont) say "when you're playing for Brisbane, you're not playing for Wakefield"? and "When you're fired by Wakefield, you dont play for Wakefield"?