This has just made me bloody miserable!

All it means is another long journey to get to a game. I get enough of that for every home game. At least Cardiff was an easy fixture for me to get to - thanks for the incentive not to go, RFL.

Besides, Cardiff is a nice place - I'm not sure I feel the same way about Manchester.

I've been to them all and enjoyed every one. The problem with Murrayfield was that it was too bloody cold, and it was the same in Cardiff last year. As for only watching your own team, it's an opportunity for RL to showcase our game and get a full house for both days (which we were never ever going to get in Cardiff).

The fact it's local (well closer anyway - local for me) may mean some people will leave after their team's match, but then there may be more people there in the first place, so those effects may cancel out. I guess the only way to find out is to try it, which is exactly what they're doing. No surprise that plenty in our RL "community" are having a good old moan about it





The only issue I can see is that even though it's in the best stadium in the world (as far as I'm concerned) there isn't the range of pubs around like there is in Cardiff. There's Mary D's (for the brave), the new Summerbee outside bar, and the bars in the stadium, and that's pretty much it. It's a fair old walk into town. Maybe that'll mean everyone's closer together and there'll be a better atmosphere though, we'll see.

If this event does not get 45,000 on both days then the RFL should just drop it.



We need the likes of Wigan, Warrington, St Helens and Leeds to take as many fans as possible with them being 4 of our biggest clubs and all being pretty close to Manchester. Hopefully Salford will pack out a section but I can't see it.



Finally, use common sense and sell-out the bottom two tiers before opening the top tier.

I'm just wondering if Des Drummond has still got his pub in Moss Side. Flak jackets optional.

At Cardiff I'm a captive audience. I've made a big effort to go so I want my moneysworth. In Manchester I won't care & the partner certainly won't stand for 'oh there nothing better to do and we've come all this way'.



Each to their own

Don't know. Moss Side is a long way from Clayton though, so I don't think many will be walking that route!

That may have been the idea for the first couple of years, but I think it's an opportunity for the game to make some money.

Swings and roundabouts - My opinion is totally opposite of yours. Since the Magic Weekends' concept started I have been for the full weekend every year and always had a great time. I don't want to spend the weekend in Manchester, 20 mins from my house. I think the scheduling has been poor too to put this on a non bank holiday weekend; putting people off further staying for the weekend IMO.











Hammer, Nail, Hit Matthew!!!!



The concept was always to take SL and indeed RL on the road but being smack bang in the heartlands seems a bit silly tbh.

I thought it was going to be on the extended bank hol for the jubilee? Fair enough it's not as good for a weekend away but enough was enough with regards to huge half-empty stadia.

I don't see it that way. It is in Manchester, not a RL area. If we can strengthen the game and the awareness of it in a place like Manchester then it would be a huge bonus.



Expansion does not have to be a 4 hour drive.

.......Have you considered Manchester to an outsider may be seen as the M62 Corridor?



Scraping the barrel if you think Manchester is expansion, no really